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Nina Bruhns returns with a 2001-Harlequin Silhouette: Warrior's Bride (full-length western contemporary romance, The Warriors)

Darlene Gardner offers a 2002-Dorchester/Love Spell apparently-comedic pregnancy contemporary romance:The Misconception

Alberta-based Newfoundlander Krista D. Ball has had a book out from Mundania Press, which was originally set up to publish Piers Anthony's less mainstream commercially-viable stuff. She offers a short story: The Amazing Transformation of Wicca Dog

The probably-pseudonymous Sparkle Hayter offers a "hilarious crime romp" that was paperbacked by Penguin in 1995 and has a favourable review from Publisher's Weekly: What's a Girl Gotta Do? (A Robin Hudson Mystery)

This follow-up to George Orwell's Animal Farm by one Jan Edwards writing as Jane Doe really was paperbacked in 1996 and translated into German like the blurb says. Both of them may be self-pub efforts, but nevertheless if you're interested: Anarchist Farm

Barbara Hay says she has written a column for the Sooner Catholic newsletter and local Oklahoma newspapers and Google appears to back her up. Here is her debut YA mystery/adventure novel involving the Native American Ponca people: Lesson of the White Eagle

Kensington-published Andy Schell, who also says he used to write freelance jokes for comedian Joan Rivers, offers a humorous general fiction novel about figure skating competition rivalries: Flying Camels and Tiger Mothers

Here is another chick-lit/romance from Prospera Publishing, a newbie small UK outlet which had a few other freebies yesterday. Nicky Schmidt's: Naked in Knightsbridge, which has a bunch of Pink Thong Award nominations.

I recognize Vincent Zandri's name because he was a total spammer on the Amazon Discussion boards for Kindle and Kindle-related stuff back when Amazon didn't auto-delete any self-promo outside the special self-pub author cornfield. He not only repeatedly kept plugging his books under his own name, but he would also rope in either genuine relatives or simple sockpuppets with the same last name who would spam on his behalf and pretend to be all indignant because they weren't promoting their own books, no matter how often the regular posters would tell him to stop creating so many threads for his books and please just stick to creating one and update it every so often, and they had to resort to using the "was this helpful or not: NO" button to hide his posts, which you may or may not still be able to see on Amazon should you run a search, if they haven't banned and auto-nuked everything. Nevertheless, it turns out he actually was published by Dell (I thought he had to be a total newbie amateur, from the way he behaved) back in the day, so here's one of his horror/thriller novels if you're morbidly curious: The Scream Catcher (not one of the printed ones) This, incidentally, will be the only time I bother to include his stuff. I figure he's more than demonstrated he's got the ability to make sure the prospective audience knows his books are available right there in front of them, whether they like it or not.

Frank Sennett had a couple of mysteries published by Five Star. This is not one of them, but instead a "modern-day Shakespeare in love", based loosely on the works of the bard: Finding Juliet

M. Scott Carter's YA grief-recovery possibly-paranormal coming-of-age is published by the same Roadrunner Press as Barbara Hay's YA novel above. He, too, is an Oklahoman and says he was an editor of his college newspaper: Stealing Kevin's Heart

D.L. Snell has recently contributed to anthologies by Kevin J. Anderson, among others, and here is his ISFDB entry and his short suspense/horror story: House of Flesh

Armand Rosamilia (ISFDB entry) mainly seems to edit anthologies. But his blurb includes praise from Scott Nicholson, whom I've never read, and Laura J. Underwood, whose stories in those Marion Zimmer Bradley anthologies I've enjoyed. Here is his rock n' roll fantasy/horror adventure: Death Metal

Previously-featured minor ISFDB-ed Canadian Chantal Boudreau contributes to this anthology of zombie stories all written by women horror writers: Hell Hath No Fury

David B. Silva, whose middling-extensive credits can be seen in his ISFDB entry says he has won both the Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Awards for his short stories, and he offers one of them here (not the award-winning ones): Dwindling

In 2002, the late Virginia Mayo who was a Hollywood actress in the 40s (Wikipedia entry) co-authored an autobiography which is now available for Kindle (but with fewer photos than the paperback, according to the blurb): Virginia Mayo - The Best Years of My Life

Adrian White has had two novels published by Penguin in Ireland. He offers what appears to be a literary fiction novel or collection of short stories. It's really hard to tell from the blurb: Dancing to the End of Love

You can see Paul Pinn's long list of ISFDB credits for short stories published over a couple of decades (at least one of which made it as far as one of those Karl Edward Wagner-edited Year's Best Horror anthologies). And you can pick up his generously-offered freebies which include 2 novels and some collections: Linkage to pull up all 6. It looks like he does mainly horror/thriller/crime but writes across all speculative genres. ISFDB

Jessica Barksdale Inclan offers her 2005-Penguin looks-like-women's fiction maybe-romance novel: Walking with Her Daughter

Esteban Vega has some work out by newbie digital imprint StoneHouse Ink who also brought out Vincent Zandri's book above. I don't recall seeing Vega spamming anywhere, so in the interests of equal opportunity exposure I include his mystery/suspense-looking thing: Baby Blue (A Digital Short)

T. S. O'Rourke is an Irish author with a Wikipedia entry and some interviews in Irish newspapers. Here is his mystery/thriller which appears to be self-pub since Breffni Books seems to only publish his work. Nevertheless, he seems to have some local acclaim, so: Sunset Strip: A Shot of Modern Noir

There's actually quite a lot of stuff I get for myself but never bother including because I know it's of marginal interest for most people.

Nevertheless I include this one because it looks interesting and I like reading about this time period and the self-pub author has included praise from local public radio stations so perhaps her historical novel might also be of interest to others: Montfort The Founder of Parliament The Early Years 1229 to 1243 by Katherine Ashe, who has apparently done the research for it.

Here is Simon de Montfort's Wikipedia entry if you don't know who he is. If you live in an ex-colonial formerly British-ruled nation of any sort, you probably have him to thank, among others, for eventually ending up with your current form of constitutional monarchy/vaguely-democratic republic form of representative government, instead of still having absolute rule.