Preliminary updates. And I should mention that if you happen to like old-school vintage 60s-70s sf/fantasy from Marion Zimmer Bradley (and even some newer stuff including a fantasy she co-wrote with Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey), you can get some of her older backlist works very cheaply using this week's Fictionwise 60% off discount coupon which should be good through the rest of today and possibly until Thursday morning as well.
FW also have some fairly good backlist sf/fantasy DRM-free in multiple formats from various re-publishers, as well. Linkage for the
coupon code, linkage for MZB's
backlist works in the FW catalogue.
Jack Remick has co-authored a Dell-published how-to-write-mysteries book and had a poetry collection small-pressed in the 80s. This is his thriller about a mercenary killer who decides to write what he knows:
Blood
Bram Stoker Award finalist Wayne Allen Salee (
ISFDB entry) offers a collection of zombie stories:
For You The Living
Minor ISFDB-ed Phoebe Matthews who also wrote for the big romance publishers returns with a psychic romantic suspense:
My Deja Vu Lover
EC Sheedy repeats her short story which was collected in The Mammoth Book of Special Ops Romance:
Overkill
Previously-included James L. Dickerson who wrote print-published celebrity biographies offers a novel:
Love on the Rocks: Romance to the Rescue
Sophie Gunn writes for Hachette's Forever imprint and for others as Diana Holquist offers a romance novella:
It's a Wonderful Wife: A Christmas Novella
Diana Hunter offers an erotic romance originally published by Ellora's Cave and now revised by the author herself:
Learning Curve
Canadian Steve Vernon (
ISFDB entry) offers a horror collection:
Bad Valentines
Sarah Stonich offers a literary/women's fiction/maybe-romance which starts in Toronto and was originally published by in 2005 by Little Brown & Co.:
The Ice Chorus
Previously-included Signet-published Barbara Bartholomew offers a YA fantasy adventure which demonstrates why you shouldn't judge a book by its cover (and also, why plain covers might work better):
Becoming Merlin (A Short Story of the Magic Land) (Chronicles of Endymion)
Previously-included Latin American politics/culture author Michael Hogan offers the self-explanatory short:
A Writer's Manual: For Inmates in Correctional Institutions
Seattle writer "Winner of the 2007 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction" Midge Raymond returns with a collection of her literary shorts, small-pressed in 2009 with praise from local newspapers:
Forgetting English: Stories
Daniel Pyle who has minor
ISFDB credits offers a horror thriller:
Dismember
Juliet Waldron says she has won two particular specified awards for two of her books, one of which has been picked up by Books We Love/BWLPP. This is her historical novel about
:
Mozart's Wife BWLPP also has a few other freebies out (some repeats) across multiple genres if you're interested. Frankly, you're better off searching for both their names as keywords since any links I give you will pull up the Prime Lending "free" stuff in the mix as well.
Coffeetown Press is a small Seattle based imprint with a variety of litfic/genre/reader companion works in their listings. Andrew Novo says that he has a doctoral degree from Oxford University in history and a bunch of other academic credits. This is his historical novel, published by Coffeetown in 2010, abut the Turkish invasion of Constantinople in 1453:
Queen of Cities
Bram Stoker award-nominee Elizabeth Massie writes Buffy the Vampire Slayer tie-ins and has extensive short fiction
ISFDB credits. She contributes to the following anthology:
Aberrations: Horror Stories which also has at least one other Stoker-nominee that I recognize.
Previously-included possibly self-pub but with local recognition and newspaper interviews Irish writer T.S. Rourke returns with:
Death Call: The London Serial Killer Case (Carroll & Grant Mysteries)