Feature title still free and it turns out that Kobo has quietly started getting a bunch of the publisher promo freebies back and not bothering to tell anyone. But at least they're there and I'll be updating those posts after lunch for whatever's still free today.
Anyway, that was a mildly pleasant surprise and so I dump upon you today's slushpile haul, which is not sorted, because that's more than my time is worth.
This Jack Kilborn/J.A. Konrath + Ann Voss Peterson title may be a repeat :
Flee - A Thriller (Chandler Series #1)
Small press Avalon-published Mona Ingram returns with a romantic novella which she warns for language:
Fixing Freddie
Star Trek tie-in novel writer David Bischoff has two repeats and what looks like a new fantasy:
Linkage for all three, watch out for the Prime "free" one
Bell Bridge Books-published Alicia Rasley offers another 90s-era Zebra-published:
The Reluctant Lady (Regency Escapades
Vickie Britton & Loretta Jackson offer a 1989 Avalon-paperbacked adventurous romantic suspense with an archaeologist in it:
Path of the Jaguar
Previously-featured small-pressed crime writer Anthony Neil Smith returns with noir thriller:
Choke on Your Lies
Minor ISFDBed Lee Allen Howard returns with "a dark paranormal fantasy fraught with suburban Pittsburgh horror":
The Sixth Seed
Yet another Scott Nicholson omnibus of stuff to add to your ever-growing collection of them:
Mystery Dance: Three Novels
Vincent H. O'Neil says he won the Malice Domestic award in 2005 and he's got a bunch of stuff hardcovered from St. Martin's/Minotaur crime imprint. Here's his self-pub mystery with actors in it:
Death Troupe
Minor ISFDBed Annie Bellet offers another of her epic adventure fantasy shorts, this one free to all via Smashwords:
Winter's Bite (may be price-matched in certain regions)
Frazer Lee has a minor
ISFDB entry and says that their Samhain-published novel was nominated for the Bram Stoker Superior Achievement in a First Novel award for 2012. S/he offers:
Panic Button - A Psychological Thriller
Hey kids, educational non-fiction! Nancy Robinson Masters' 2005 small-pressed title has a School Library Journal review which says it's a decent read for grades 5-8:
Extraordinary Patriots of the United States of America: Colonial Times to Pre-Civil War
Here's another in Michael Haskins' series if you've been collecting it, this one newly-published by Five Star in 2011:
Free Range Institution - A Mick Murphy Key West Mystery
I was mildly surprised that Benjamin X Wretlind turns out to have a minor
ISFDB entry for small-zined stories, because normally it's the totally self-pub titles which go like:
Mighty Chief Chappose Picks Berries (Sketches from the Spanish Mustang) This, incidentally, appears to be some kind of ghostly supernatural/horror.
This should be fairly self-explanatory and the blurb says it's got an old-school-style Asimovian sci-fi murder mystery in it, so you might want to pick up what seems a decent sampler for:
Magic to Mayhem: Northwest Independent Writers Association 2011 Anthology of Speculative Fiction (Northwest Independent Writers Association Anthologies)
Australian sf/fantasy writer and fellow MR member author Patty Jansen freebies another sf short, published in one of those L. Ron Hubbard memorial contest Writers of the Future anthologies:
This Peaceful State of War For those of you encountering her work for the first time, she's still got a bunch of it free and
available to all via Smashwords.
Minor ISFDBed Iain Rob Wright offers another horror thingy:
The Peeling: Book 1 (Jeremy's Choice)
Vintage celebrity bio to tie-in with recent attention-boosting death. In 1993, Scribner hardcovered Randall E. Stross:
Steve Jobs & The NeXT Big Thing I think I may have read this from the library back during my initial Mac conversion phase.
It looks like we get some kind of collection of these plus a few bonus extras:
CARNIVAL OF SOULS Graphic Novel Volume One If you were collecting the single issues, this one is still free:
JAZAN WILD'S CARNIVAL OF SOULS "Everyone Loves A Clown"
Denise Domning offers the 5th in her medieval historical Graistan Chronicles, which was 1996-paperbacked by Topaz, which from the look of the tiny squinty logo on the cover which Amazon refuses to enlarge, was probably a Ballantine Books imprint (they were absorbed by Random House at some point):
A Love For All Seasons
Irish writer Sally Clements has had some stuff published by The Wild Rose Press (romance specialty imprint available via Fictionwise). This is a collection of her romantic short stories:
New Beginnings
Steven Torres has had a novel out from St. Martin's/Minotaur crime imprint and says that this short story was originally published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine:
The Valley of Angustias
Previously-included Canadian writer of construction and economics articles Alex Carrick has another short collection if you've been collecting them:
Ten Tales of People Dear (Ten Tales Series)
I'm not really sure why on earth you would put up computer help books for outdated operating systems and software, but in case you were still struggling with an old school/workplace install of Windows XP or Microsoft Office 2003,:
here are some guides which may turn out to be useful.
ISFDBed David Bain repeats:
Brujas Behind Bars: A Chicks in Prison Grindhouse Novelette
Roseanne Dowell had some sort of small-pressed 2006 mass market paperback romance. This is another contemporary romance title of hers, with a family ghost element, via Books We Love/BWLPP:
Time To Love Again
Canadian Aurora Award-nominee Douglas Smith's speculative maybe-fantasy short is not KDP, but playing pricing catch-up with Smashwords, so it may not be free in all regions (though it's possible you can pick this up via Kobo/Sony/other price-matching outlet):
The Boys are Back in the Town
Some minor newbie-author offerings from previously-included small genre/specialty presses:
Echelon Press,
Deadly Niche Press,
Camel Press,
Coffeetown Press (has a nice-looking historical bio of Mary Todd Lincoln and a litfic guide to J.D. Salinger and that whacky Moby Dick derivative is back, if you missed it earlier)
I include the following Christian fiction thriller as a sporfletastic example of TMI in the actual title, some of which really is best saved for the blurb. Mind you, you do see exactly what the story is upfront, which admittedly saves you time in not opening the listing if you know you're just not interested in:
Tested by Fire: He Sought Revenge. He Found Life | A Riveting Story for First Responders (Police Officers, EMTs, and Firefighters) in a Post-911 World (A Medic-7, First Responders Novel) Many of the other books from the same publisher are similarly descriptive, and since I normally ignore the Religion & Spirituality category listings, I'll link these for the Christian non/fiction readers in the audience, since this is the imprint who've been repubbing formerly Bethany House-d Ann Tatlock's stuff from yesterday:
Linkage for the lot from Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas
Don't forget to pick up sf award nominee Norman Spinrad's screenplay and give him a nice ranking boost, helpfully pointed out by fellow MR member KentE
in this thread.
Happy reading, if indeed you manage to spot something you think you might like.