Updates here, since the feature is still free through the rest of the day.
Minor ISFDBed Glen R. Krisch, who has two anthologized small press stories listed and says he has worked as an editor upon Tim Lebbon's books, among others, returns to offer:
Twice as Dark: Two Novels of Horror
Joel Gross offers his fictionalized biographical novel about the famous actress, originally 1987-William Morrow hardcovered:
SARAH: A NOVEL OF SARAH BERNHARDT
Phillippa/Pip Ballantine who writes steampunk novels for HarperCollins offers a literary short story involving time travel:
The Straw Garden
Also out from the ImagineThat! Studios imprint behind the Ballantine story, a "horror erotica" from Jonathan Carter which also involves time travel:
Final Cut
Rebecca Ammon runs some sort of sex-positive blog for alternative lifestyles and says she also writes a syndicated column of some sort. She offers a multi-author anthology of literary erotica which she has edited:
Lyrotica - An Anthology of Erotic Poetry and Prose
Roy C. Booth (
ISFDB) and R. Thomas Riley (
ISFDB), both of whom have minor small-pressed shorts, team up to offer some kind of horror-ish AU weird western with fallen angels and gunslingers:
The Flesh of Fallen Angels (Gibson Blount)
Pam Uphoff, if she's the same as the Pamela Uphoff listed in the
ISFDB for an essay in an issue of Jim Baen's Universe offers some kind of genetic engineering gone wrong superhuman thriller which has what looks like a dinosaur hatching from the moon on its cover:
Outcasts and Gods (Wine of the Gods)
J.M. Snyder who was once feature-freebied by retailer Rainbow eBooks offers an m/m romance involving cross-dressing:
A Cowboy's Heart
Ellora's Cave-published Anh Leod offers an f/m erotic romance steampunk novella:
Clockwork Captive
Richard Mason who used to write columns of some sort for the newsletter of an Arizona wildlife federation returns with an omnibus edition of his historical coming-of-age stories based upon his own childhood growing up in the US South in the 40s and 50s:
Lyin' Like a Dog, The Yankee Doctor, The Danged Swamp! 3-Volume set
Sex educator and feminist media personality Susie Bright, whose Wikipedia entry you can look up yourself this time, returns with a memoir for which the blurb lists specific praise from Vanity Fair, Psychology Today, Chicago Sun-Times, and many more:
Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir
Maria Hudgins returns with another in her series of cozy mysteries, originally out from Five Star in 2010:
Death on the Aegean Queen (Dotsy Lamb Travel Mysteries)
ISFDBed Doctor Who tie-in novel writer Paul Finch returns with the 2nd volume of his shorts:
Medi-Evil 2 (A collection of historical terror and fantasy)
UK writer Valerie Laws says she has appeared on BBC2 and is some sort of multimedia artist and poet (she does have at least one poetry collection small-pressed, from the looks of it). She says that the following novel of hers was "Winner of a Northern Writer’s Award, shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize":
The Rotting Spot (A Bruce and Bennett Mystery)
The rather mythologically-named Paris Alexander, out from the same Wharekohu Bay imprint that's been republishing Kate Silver's Zebra romances, has another f/m erotic historical romance short if you liked the last one:
The Duchess and her Stableboy (Stolen Moments)
Stephen Kubiak says that his quirky action/adventure was "Winner of the 2009 Florida State University Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Creative Writing" so if you're into trying out promising-looking indies, you may want to give a try to:
Pistolero y Pollo
Speaking of promising-looking indies, Abigail Keam's self-pub-looking (though she does claim to have won a specified "Gold Medal Award", whatever that is) cozy mystery with a beekeeper as the amateur sleuth sounds unusual enough to pick up:
Death By A HoneyBee (A Josiah Reynolds Mystery)
Barbara Ivie Green only claims long-running artistic illustration experience, but her Victorian Egyptian archaeological adventure with some romance in it does look mostly Relevant To My Interests, so:
Treasure of Egypt (Treasure of the Ancients)
The following small-press imprints (some with decent backlist and literary fiction titles) have a mix of new and repeat books across various genres (some authors previously included as credentialed):
Coffeetown Press,
Camel Press,
Books We Love/
BWLPP
A man once thought to put into verse
Covering books from 4th through to 1st
A classic of King Arthur's time
His new version here you will find
If to lim'ricks you are not adverse
:
Le Morte d'Arthur, an Epic Limerick, Vol I
Don't forget to pick up the speculative fiction anthology Intergalactic Medicine Show Awards, helpfully pointed out by fellow MR member scottken
in this thread here, which includes stories by Peter Beagle, Hugo-nominated Eugie Foster and Aliette deBodard, Nebula winner Eric James Stone, and many more.