The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust is participating in Read an E-Book Week this year, and offering freebies both via their related websites (linked from the official RAEBW site) and Amazon.
Their new Amazon freebie is via KDP Select, and a book I actually bought last year @ Fictionwise when it was newly re-released, but still haven't gotten around to reading it, which is probably just as well.
Since Elisabeth Waters from the MZBLWT has
stated they've been pulling stuff to fix typos and such and don't intend to stay exclusive with Amazon, hopefully it'll come back in better shape in 90 days and they'll be willing to manually send updated copies to any prior B&N purchasers who lost access to re-download their existing books and would have to re-buy the new version under a different product ID, which is apparently what happens when something gets removed from the store for Amazon's exclusive-or-else thing,
according to posters discussing the KDP Select program in the News forum.
The House Between the Worlds by Marion Zimmer Bradley is apparently a parapsychology-based early urban fantasy/psionic sf novel, originally printed in 1984 by Del Rey.
Free for probably a few days with DRM as part of Read an E-Book Week, courtesy of the Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust @ Amazon
main DE ES FR IT (not available in the UK due to a different publisher arrangement, additional charges may apply in certain regions)
Description
Cameron Fenton participates in a parapsychology study, using an experimental drug. Instead of increasing his ESP, it causes him to leave his his body and enter other worlds. But are they real, or do they exist only in his mind? And if they are real, will he ever be able to get anyone in his world to believe him?
Selected slushpile stuff follows. I only really bothered looking at new-ish things from authors who've been included before or whose names I recognized with the help of the ISFDB.
Darkover-authorized-fanfic-anthology-contributor Joan Marie Verba (
ISFDB entry) offers a fantasy short:
Revenge, Denied
Alex Irvine who seems to match up with this
ISFDB entry and has written a whole bunch of media tie-in novels and some short fiction, offers a good deal of the latter:
Linkage for the lot, some of which appears to be geo-restricted.
Minor ISFDBed Canadian Cheryl Kaye Tardif offers another Imajin/n-published suspense/horror-ish thriller:
Children of the Fog
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Reader's Choice award-winner Dave Zeltserman returns with the 1st in a new novella series that is supposed to combine hard-boiled crime with government conspiracy:
The Hunted (The Hunted Series)
Sourcebooks-published Lisa Renee Jones returns with what she calls a "light erotica" contemporary romance novella (and advises you to check out a different title of hers if you want the seriously erotic stuff instead):
Pleasure with Purpose Incidentally, the other story is
free to all via Smashwords
I-think-it-was-Jove-who-paperbacked Paul Bishop, who returns with the 3rd in his Detective Fey Croaker LAPD series:
Croaker: Tequila Mockingbird
Samhain-published Jody Wallace returns with a fantasy novella which appears to be non-romantic, or at least not primarily so:
A Mage By Any Other Name
Happy reading, especially if you manage to pick up some nice stuff from elsewhere during Read an E-book Week.
ETA: Minor ISFDBed Phoebe Matthews returns with some sort of historical vignette:
Rudy, Looking for Love (Chicago 1890s)
Some romances via Books We Love of authors previously included who were also published elsewhere:
The Deal (The Dealing Trilogy) f/m paranormal romantic suspense by Canadian Jude Mason
Reckless erotic suspense shorts by Jenna Byrnes (maybe a repeat)