Well, it seems that
eReader IQ is down [back up after I finished composing this
not too much to add, though] and I don't feel like tackling the annoyance which is Kinlib's weird horizontal scrolling format, so partial dip into the slushpile from before it settled after midnight.
Today's feature is something completely different from someone whom frankly, I've never read or heard anything by him (although I have seen his name on titles in the bookstore which is where I vaguely remember it from).
But he's got a pretty extensive
Wikipedia entry which makes him seem a lot more prominent than I thought he'd be.
Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You: A good beer joint is hard to find and other facts of life by Lewis Grizzard, is a collection of the late humourist and stand-up comedian's columns from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.
Apparently, he was kind of a jerk regarding several issues, but he seems to have been reasonably important in US humour circles and fairly popular, so here's his first-ever published book, originally printed by one Peachtree Pub in 1979 and multiply reprinted over the years by Warner Books.
Free for who knows how long (this is its 2nd day, since I spotted too late last evening to put in the updates) and who knows what DRM @ Amazon
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Description
New York Times bestselling author and humorist Lewis Grizzard, self-proclaimed "true son of the red clay whose granddaddy once owned the egg-suckingest dog in Coweta County," leads us on a warm, sensitive, and very funny journey through the soul of his beloved South in his first published book, Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You.
This was Grizzard's first published book and returns to print in eBook format after being out of print for more than 25 years.
The rest of what showed up in the preliminary slushpile and what I was able to check later at eReader IQ before it went down.
Not sorted, but we've got some nice-looking award-nominee litfic in the lot, for those who like nice-looking award-nominee litfic and a promising collection of previously-published sf shorts.
Dorchester/Leisure-published Steven Torres returns with a collection of shorts:
Killing Ways 2: Urban Stories
Minor ISFDBed Derek Clendening offers another short:
The Employer
Valerie Douglas who writes as V.J. Devereaux for Ellora's Cave returns with an Egyptian archaeological paranormal artifact adventure which may also be a romance:
Heart of the Gods (Servant of the Gods)
Gary Ponzo says he is a 2-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize for stories that have appeared in various publications (no print credentials listed, and the Pushcart people don't list past nominees on their site) and offers a mini-collection of thrillers:
The Last Mountain Gorilla (Short Story with 2 Bonus Stories)
Berkley & Harlequin-published Patricia Kay offers a a contemporary romance which she says was "first offered to readers in 1993 in a limited edition distributed to mail order subscribers":
For Services Rendered
Noble & Ravenous Romance-published fellow MR member author Keta Diablo returns with another in her series of m/m romantic suspenses which look to have supernatural elements and erotic content as well:
Crossroads - Shadowland
UK writer John Noone says that his 1960s-set literary/military psychological suspense thriller novel originally published by Hamish Hamilton in 1966 and picked up by Grove Press in 1967 was "joint winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1967":
THE MAN WITH THE CHOCOLATE EGG I don't know why authors put their titles in all caps in the listings. Do they think that shouting will help them rise up above the rest?
Another Robert W. Walker thriller for your collection of such:
Werewolf's Grief (Bloodscreams #2)
Zebra-published Doreen Owens Malek returns with a contemporary romantic suspense:
Fair Game
Lewis Perdue offers 2005-Forge hardcovered military supersoldier/medical conspiracy thriller which he says is loosely based on the notion of secret government experiments being responsible for Gulf War Syndrome:
Perfect Killer
Pocket & Oxford University Press-published Tim Vicary offers another in his series of UK legal thrillers:
A Fatal Verdict (The Trials of Sarah Newby)
Simon & Schuster-published western writer Jory Sherman (who is apparently a Pulitzer nominee, according to his
author bio page on their website) offers another collection of short stories, this one looking somewhat literary in nature:
The Sadness of Autumn: Tales of the Ozarks His other collection from yesterday is also still free :
Little Journeys: Collected Stories
You know what, this inevitable mashup of "Your average Regency Romance....with Zombies!!" sounds kind of fun, so:
Duke of the Un-Dead (Un-Dead Series) if you like self-pub titles which are "action packed with hard core zombie slaying action and of course, the perfect blend of romance."
Happy reading, if indeed you manage to spot something you think you might like, or you find that Grizzard's brand of humour holds up well enough after all this time.
The additions from previously-included authors whom I'm not going to bother trying to recall who's been publishing them, but they have been previously published, so:
Sharon Ihle returns with another one of her popular western historical romances:
DAKOTA DREAM
Dawn DeAnna Wilson returns with a YA novel:
Saint Jude
ISFDBed Ruth Nestvold offers a collection of near future dystopian short stories which she says includes some that originally appeared in Asimov's Magazine and were reprinted in Rich Horton's Year's Best Science Fiction:
The Future, Imperfect: Short Stories
Curt Wheeden and Richard Marek's quirky comedy-mystery was originally out from Oceanview Publishing in 2010:
Book of Nathan
Books We Love/BWLPP have added some more titles to their selection of freebies, including a new romance by Bantam-published YA and Avalon-published romance author Sydell Voeller:
Linkage for the first version of their imprint and
linkage for the 2nd
From a Canadian perspective, the Africana Homestead Legacy Publishing people who do literary fiction from established African national authors have added a 7th book (only 6 available to us yesterday):
Linkage for the lot of their stuff which is all still free
Martha Marks is a Ph.D in literature and linguistics who credits exposure to and teaching of literary classics to improving her notions of good writing. She's also written a bunch of McGraw-Hill language learning texts and has some involvement with developing a PBS programme. Here's her promising-looking self-pub historical murder mystery set in ancient Rome with a female sleuth, which has surprisingly nice formatting for an indie (would not discredit a Big 6 imprint, either) and which I think I'll be adding to my main account as well:
Rubies of the Viper