Relatively little overall in the slushpile today. Perhaps authors/publishers are starting to get as tired of the exclusive-or-else thing as I am. The ones who aren't writing really repetitive-looking porn, that is.
Or maybe they've just saved everything to dump into the slushpile on Tuesdays from now on. 
Today's sf/fantasy backlist treat is actually a fantasy/horror one, and the 3rd in a trilogy which it looks like the publisher aims to get you to buy the first two by giving you the conclusion of the story.
Siege of Stone by Chet Williamson, is 3rd in his The Searchers trilogy of supernatural action/adventure government agents vs unspeakable horror thrillers, which was originally published in 1999 by Avon and is being reoffered by re-publisher Crossroads now.
Williamson, incidentally, has been multiply-nominated for the Bram Stoker and World Fantasy and probably other awards, and has a reasonably extensive
ISFDB entry and a
rambly Wikipedia one as well. I have not read his works, as I am not usually interested in either horror or thrillers, award-nominated or not.
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From Chet Williamson, winner of the International Horror Guild Award and multiple World Fantasy, Edgar and Stoker Award Nominee, comes the third in an amazing series ... The Searchers:
He is The Prisoner, ageless, deathless, powerful beyond measure – and now he is free.
A being as old as time, he has always been. For centuries a clandestine order of knights has guarded him, keeping his existence secret from an unsuspecting world. But The Prisoner has escaped his shackles, cutting a bloody swath of terror across America.
His time is now.
For covert CIA operatives Tony Luciano, Joseph Stein, and Laika Harris, the search is nearing an end. Each passing moment brings them closer to answers to the mystery they have been entrusted to solve; what spawned this awesome being and released him into the world? And what is his horrifying purpose? But their hunt has left an FBI man dead, and now the SEARCHERS are the hunted. Yet they dare not falter, for the Prisoner must be stopped at any cost, before he forges an unholy terrorist alliance that will rain destruction and death up on the Earth, and damn an enslaved human race to the torments of an eternal living Hell.
Non-repeats in the KDP slushpile. There's also some Smashwords & iTunes stuff I'll probably put into a separate thread later if it's still free when I get back, because I don't care for the idea of Amazon being perceived asthe sole source of decent backlist and established author self-pub titles from which all others peripherally stem and need to be worked around, which apparently people have been getting from having stuff all lumped into Amazon-adjunct posts.
UK writer Zoë Sharp whose ex-Special-Forces-biker-babe-turned-bodyguard mystery/thrillers were formerly published by Piatkus, returns to offer a collection of short stories with a mini-guide to the series:
FOX FIVE: a Charlie Fox short story collection
Diane Story's historical American pioneer romance was 2004-Whiskey Creek published:
The Overlander's Bride
Scott Nicholson & J.R. Rain team up to offer:
Ghost College (The Ghost Files #1)
ISFDBed Nebula Award-nominee J. Kathleen Cheney returns with a fantasy short:
Snowfall (Tales from Hawk's Folly Farm)
Michelle M. Pillow has been published by Ellora's Cave and teams up with Mandy M. Roth to offer a contemporary apparently-humourous erotic romance which one reviewer helpfully points out is "a fun book filled with SEX, SEX, SEX":
Pleasure Cruise
Previously title-featured Canadian Governor General's Award for Children's Literature winner Arthur Slade returns with a volume in his Norse-mythology based YA dark fantasy/adventure trilogy, originally out from Orca Book in 1998, if you missed the omnibus edition. This is not KDP, but playing pricing-catchup with Smashwords (or is lurking at free elsewhere) so may not be free or available in all regions, but may also appear in your other preferred store if it price-matches SW:
Draugr (Northern Frights)
Fellow MR member author Nancy Fulda (
ISFDB entry) offers a short fantasy tale which is also not KDP, but playing pricing catch-up with Smashwords (thus, usual disclaimers apply):
In the Halls of the Sky-Palace: A Short Story
Marisa Mackle is an Irish writer whose books have been published by Dodder, who also have some Maeve Binchy stuff in their listings. She offers her humourous contemporary romance, out from Dodder in 2007, and earlier from Town House in 2002:
Mr Right for the Night (Irish Romantic Comedy)
John L. Moore apparently has written a bunch of articles for the New York Times, or at least someone with his name has a few turning up upon search. He offers a western adventure tale which may be Christian fiction (blurb says he has won a specified fiction award from a Christian outlet, though it may have been for something else entirely):
The Breaking of Ezra Riley (The Ezra Riley Series)
Frank Mundo apparently writes for the Books section of the Los Angeles Examiner, according to a quickie google search. He offers a collection of litfic-looking shorts for which he quotes blurb praise from the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post:
Gary, the Four-Eyed Fairy and Other Stories
Dylan Metrano offers a behind-the-scenes memoir of his experiences in the music industry with his band Tiger Saw, which
the Wikipedia entry says has been around since the late 90s, originally out from small press Burst & Bloom in 2009:
All My Friends Are Right Here With Me: A Decade in the Indie Rock Underground
Video game designer Stephen Beam returns with the self-explanatory:
Fat Rich Dog (part man, part machine, part golden retriever)