Feature still free, and only minor non-repeat stuff in the slushpile today, although there was 17 pages of it to wade through until I started hitting yesterday's stuff. But we do have at least 3 verifiable backlist reprints amidst the usual established author self-pubs.
Jessica Barksdale Inclan who writes contemporary/women's fiction novels for New American Library offers her debut novel, which seems to have also been published by them (not linked to paper version and I'm not bothering to dig:
Her Daughter's Eyes
Jeannette Angell, who's written a non-fiction book about the sex industry which has a Publisher's Weekly review and a German translation, offers an historical maybe-conspiracy-thriller set in 14th century France:
The Crown and the Kingdom
Fellow MR member author Paul Levine returns with a quartet of his thriller shorts, including one involving his print-published Solomon & Lord characters:
The Road to Hell
Steven Torres returns with a 2007-Leisure/Dorchester hard-boiled noir. I kind of wonder what happened to make him so strongly emphasize in the blurb that the author of this is "Stephen [sic] Torres, NOT Schorr":
The Concrete Maze
Minor ISFDBed Melissa L. Webb offers a paranormal high school set thriller/maybe-romance:
Weaver of Darkness
Normally we just get het and gay erotic/romance, so in the interests of balance, Alison Laleche says that she has been nominated for a Gaylactic award and offers a mini-collection of:
Lesbians Ahoy! (Lesbian Erotica)
And speaking of erotic/romance, Riley Owens returns with a bunch of sci-fi/fantasy erotic shorts, out from ImagineThat Studios which has been releasing HarperCollins-published Pip Ballantine's shorts:
Linkage for the lot and another one
free to all via Smashwords.
Bill Myers offers his 2003-Zondervan-published Christian fiction sci-fi/medical thriller:
Blood of Heaven (Fire of Heaven Trilogy)
Donna Fletcher Crow has had many books out from Moody and Crossway, the latter of whom is a Christian publisher who sometimes gives us freebies. She offers a 1930s set murder mystery (may be inspirational and/or romantic suspense):
Shadow of Reality (Book One in the Elizabeth and Richard Mystery Series)
Kathy Cecala had some sort of romance paperbacked by Onyx back in the 80s. She offers a YA adventure series set in 4th century Ireland, for which you can pick up both volumes written thus far as a holiday special:
Linkage for the lot
Valerie Douglas who writes as V.J. Deveraux for Ellora's Cave offers a repeat romance, but it's a festively-themed repeat, so:
Irish Fling (The Millersburg Quartet)
This book is self-pub (although the author claims to be an award-winning writer like they all do), but I'm kind of morbidly curious about something which starts off with the first victim being crushed by a life-sized replica whale at the Smithsonian Museum, so:
Murder in Ocean Hall
Less morbidity and more curiosity for the following self-pub historical novel in a setting I like but don't get to see all that often:
Birkbeiner, set in 13th century Norway.
Happy reading, if indeed you manage to spot something you think you might like (and remember not to stand directly underneath life-sized replica whales, just in case).