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ATDrake · 03-14-2012, 11:13 AM

A surprisingly large lot of stuff in the KDP Select exclusive-or-else slushpile, mainly due to the aggressive cross-promotional efforts of a small band of authors who seem to have gathered together to push their works collectively by freebie-ing one and mentioning the other authors' also-freebied works as a tie-in promo in the blurb.

I must say it's a fairly good way to raise the visibility of more obscure books, as long as they're of reasonably equivalent quality (chances are, a poor title will reflect badly on the rest picked up at the same time, if someone begins to associate bad writing encountered with those other authors' names).

Anyway, we have a fairly nice treat in the slushpile for those of you who enjoy dark fantasy/horror, and some more print-published and occasional award-nominee sf shorts for those who prefer that. And a promising-looking historical litfic drama free to all via Smashwords.

Through Shattered Glass by David B. Silva (ISFDB) is a collection of his short stories, originally small-press hardcovered by Gauntlet in 2000, which includes the Bram Stoker Award-winning horror short which he touts in every single one of his blurbs.

This collection, which itself won an International Horror Guild award and was nominated for a Stoker also, includes 17 stories which seem to be assorted horror/suspense/dark fantasy and an introduction by Dean Koontz.

Free for who knows how long @ Amazon main UK DE ES FR IT

Description it's a long blurb which details the stories, so I'm only putting in the first few paragraphs
It's the only window in the room and it's scarred with spider-webbed cracks. Sometimes on warm summer afternoons, he sits alone here, staring out at the world through the shattered glass. What he sees doesn't always look right, but then there are strange things in the world.

Through Shattered Glass, David B. Silva's first short story collection, takes readers on an imaginative journey through the lives of seventeen ordinary people struggling with extraordinary events in their lives.

The other interesting/verifiable bits of the slushpile. I skipped almost all of the repeats unless they tied into a currently-offered series.

Harriet Smart offers her 1992 Hodder Headline-hardcovered Scottish historical litfic drama free to all via Smashwords: Green Grow the Rushes She offers more of her backlist historicals there for $2.99 a pop if it turns out you like this one.

ISFDBed Ruth Nestvold returns with a 2003 Asimov's SF Magazine-published novella which she says was a finalist for the Tiptree and Sturgeon awards: Looking Through Lace

Kathy Ferguson (ISFDB) and James Grayson (ISFDB) offer an sf novella originally published in Analog Magazine in 2006: Puncher's Chance

Bell Bridge Books-published Alicia Rasley offers an historical romance which was probably published by Zebra as she says it was a RITA Award nominee: Charity Begins at Home (Regency Escapades)

Denise Domning returns with her 2003 Avon-published Regency romance: Almost Perfect

Imajin/n re-publishes Ric Wasley's 2007-Kunati small-pressed suspense/thriller which has a decent Booklist review: Shadow of Innocence (McCarthy Family Mysteries)

Harlequin-published Nina Bruhns offers her latest contemporary romantic suspense: The French Detective's Woman

Fellow MR member author Paul Levine offers another installment in his legal thriller series, this one 1994-William Morrow hardcovered: MORTAL SIN (The Jake Lassiter Series)

Formerly-Dorchester-published-before-they-imploded-from-not-paying-their-authors Gerri Russell returns with her 2010-Dorchester/Leisure historical romance: Seducing the Knight (Brotherhood of the Scottish Templars) and she repeats another in the series: To Tempt A Knight (Brotherhood of the Scottish Templars)

Virna DePaul writes romantic suspense for Berkley and Harlequin. She offers two romances, one a short tie-in to her apparently popular published Psy-Ops series: Linkage for them both

Bell Bridge Books-published Donna Ball offers a suspense/maybe-horror thriller: Sanctuary and a celebrity vs stalker thriller: Exposure She lists Donna Boyd as one of her pennames in her bio and offers a paranormal suspense saga under that: Renegade (Devoncroix Dynasty)

Berkley-published Barbara Bretton offers a romance novella: I Do, I Do . . . Again

Zebra-published Doreen Owens Malek returns with a western romance which she says sold a specified large number of copies when it was first released in 1993 (not linked to paperback and I'm not going to bother to dig): The Harder They Fall

Big-6-paperbacked J. Carson Black returns with a historical western drama/maybe-romance which she originally wrote under the penname Annie McKnight: The Tombstone Rose

Tom Lowe offers his 2009-Minotaur hardcovered: A FALSE DAWN (Sean O'Brien (mystery/Thrillers))

Minor ISFDBed Mark Edward Hall returns with a collection of horror shorts which he says includes some of the published ones: Servants of Darkness

Stephanie Bond who is currently Harlequin-published, offers two romances, one of them 2002-St. Martin's Pressed: Linkage for them both, plus her Harlequin official freebie

Ann Charles who says she's been nominated for some of those Romance Writers of America awards returns with the 2nd in her paranormal mystery/suspense series with a touch of romance, if you picked up the first one when it was included earlier: Optical Delusions in Deadwood (Deadwood Mystery Series #2) She also helpfully repeats the 1st if you missed it: Nearly Departed in Deadwood (Deadwood Mystery Series #1)

Tom Underhill offers some kind of time-travel story which he says was published in a particular issue of Bewildering Stories, which the ISFDB doesn't seem to know about, so I'm guessing it's some sort of minor small-press pulp thing: Time Trick

Minor ISFDBed Derek Clendening offers another horror short: The Business

Maureen Child, who's got an official Harlequin freebie out, offers a contemporary romance novella which she says was originally written under the penname Kathleen Kane: Paper Hearts

Small press erotic romance specialty imprinted Canadian Jade Buchanan returns with an f/m/m menage paranormal erotic romance which she says was originally published as part of an anthology: Aella's Song

Michele Lang repeats a tie-in novella to her currently Tor-published historical fantasy series: The Magic of Fabulous (Lady Lazarus) She offers a guide to the series free to all via Smashwords

Happy reading, if you think you see something you might like.

ETA: Another Robert W. Walker suspense/horror thriller, originally 1988 St. Martin's Pressed: Disembodied

Joyce Yarrow's 2010-Five Star-published globe-trotting PI mystery/thriller: THE LAST MATRYOSHKA

03-14-2012, 11:13 AM	#1
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Free (Kindle KDP) Through Shattered Glass by David B. Silva [Fantasy/Horror Awarded] A surprisingly large lot of stuff in the KDP Select exclusive-or-else slushpile, mainly due to the aggressive cross-promotional efforts of a small band of authors who seem to have gathered together to push their works collectively by freebie-ing one and mentioning the other authors' also-freebied works as a tie-in promo in the blurb. I must say it's a fairly good way to raise the visibility of more obscure books, as long as they're of reasonably equivalent quality (chances are, a poor title will reflect badly on the rest picked up at the same time, if someone begins to associate bad writing encountered with those other authors' names). Anyway, we have a fairly nice treat in the slushpile for those of you who enjoy dark fantasy/horror, and some more print-published and occasional award-nominee sf shorts for those who prefer that. And a promising-looking historical litfic drama free to all via Smashwords. Through Shattered Glass by David B. Silva (ISFDB) is a collection of his short stories, originally small-press hardcovered by Gauntlet in 2000, which includes the Bram Stoker Award-winning horror short which he touts in every single one of his blurbs. This collection, which itself won an International Horror Guild award and was nominated for a Stoker also, includes 17 stories which seem to be assorted horror/suspense/dark fantasy and an introduction by Dean Koontz. Free for who knows how long @ Amazon main UK DE ES FR IT Description it's a long blurb which details the stories, so I'm only putting in the first few paragraphs It's the only window in the room and it's scarred with spider-webbed cracks. Sometimes on warm summer afternoons, he sits alone here, staring out at the world through the shattered glass. What he sees doesn't always look right, but then there are strange things in the world. Through Shattered Glass, David B. Silva's first short story collection, takes readers on an imaginative journey through the lives of seventeen ordinary people struggling with extraordinary events in their lives. The other interesting/verifiable bits of the slushpile. I skipped almost all of the repeats unless they tied into a currently-offered series. Harriet Smart offers her 1992 Hodder Headline-hardcovered Scottish historical litfic drama free to all via Smashwords: Green Grow the Rushes She offers more of her backlist historicals there for $2.99 a pop if it turns out you like this one. ISFDBed Ruth Nestvold returns with a 2003 Asimov's SF Magazine-published novella which she says was a finalist for the Tiptree and Sturgeon awards: Looking Through Lace Kathy Ferguson (ISFDB) and James Grayson (ISFDB) offer an sf novella originally published in Analog Magazine in 2006: Puncher's Chance Bell Bridge Books-published Alicia Rasley offers an historical romance which was probably published by Zebra as she says it was a RITA Award nominee: Charity Begins at Home (Regency Escapades) Denise Domning returns with her 2003 Avon-published Regency romance: Almost Perfect Imajin/n re-publishes Ric Wasley's 2007-Kunati small-pressed suspense/thriller which has a decent Booklist review: Shadow of Innocence (McCarthy Family Mysteries) Harlequin-published Nina Bruhns offers her latest contemporary romantic suspense: The French Detective's Woman Fellow MR member author Paul Levine offers another installment in his legal thriller series, this one 1994-William Morrow hardcovered: MORTAL SIN (The Jake Lassiter Series) Formerly-Dorchester-published-before-they-imploded-from-not-paying-their-authors Gerri Russell returns with her 2010-Dorchester/Leisure historical romance: Seducing the Knight (Brotherhood of the Scottish Templars) and she repeats another in the series: To Tempt A Knight (Brotherhood of the Scottish Templars) Virna DePaul writes romantic suspense for Berkley and Harlequin. She offers two romances, one a short tie-in to her apparently popular published Psy-Ops series: Linkage for them both Bell Bridge Books-published Donna Ball offers a suspense/maybe-horror thriller: Sanctuary and a celebrity vs stalker thriller: Exposure She lists Donna Boyd as one of her pennames in her bio and offers a paranormal suspense saga under that: Renegade (Devoncroix Dynasty) Berkley-published Barbara Bretton offers a romance novella: I Do, I Do . . . Again Zebra-published Doreen Owens Malek returns with a western romance which she says sold a specified large number of copies when it was first released in 1993 (not linked to paperback and I'm not going to bother to dig): The Harder They Fall Big-6-paperbacked J. Carson Black returns with a historical western drama/maybe-romance which she originally wrote under the penname Annie McKnight: The Tombstone Rose Tom Lowe offers his 2009-Minotaur hardcovered: A FALSE DAWN (Sean O'Brien (mystery/Thrillers)) Minor ISFDBed Mark Edward Hall returns with a collection of horror shorts which he says includes some of the published ones: Servants of Darkness Stephanie Bond who is currently Harlequin-published, offers two romances, one of them 2002-St. Martin's Pressed: Linkage for them both, plus her Harlequin official freebie Ann Charles who says she's been nominated for some of those Romance Writers of America awards returns with the 2nd in her paranormal mystery/suspense series with a touch of romance, if you picked up the first one when it was included earlier: Optical Delusions in Deadwood (Deadwood Mystery Series #2) She also helpfully repeats the 1st if you missed it: Nearly Departed in Deadwood (Deadwood Mystery Series #1) Tom Underhill offers some kind of time-travel story which he says was published in a particular issue of Bewildering Stories, which the ISFDB doesn't seem to know about, so I'm guessing it's some sort of minor small-press pulp thing: Time Trick Minor ISFDBed Derek Clendening offers another horror short: The Business Maureen Child, who's got an official Harlequin freebie out, offers a contemporary romance novella which she says was originally written under the penname Kathleen Kane: Paper Hearts Small press erotic romance specialty imprinted Canadian Jade Buchanan returns with an f/m/m menage paranormal erotic romance which she says was originally published as part of an anthology: Aella's Song Michele Lang repeats a tie-in novella to her currently Tor-published historical fantasy series: The Magic of Fabulous (Lady Lazarus) She offers a guide to the series free to all via Smashwords Happy reading, if you think you see something you might like. ETA: Another Robert W. Walker suspense/horror thriller, originally 1988 St. Martin's Pressed: Disembodied Joyce Yarrow's 2010-Five Star-published globe-trotting PI mystery/thriller: THE LAST MATRYOSHKA Last edited by ATDrake; 03-14-2012 at 11:57 AM. Reason: Off-by-one error. Plus additional awards.