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Old 04-04-2012, 09:34 PM   #5
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Romance which will probably outnumber everything else combined

Under re-construction. Click spoiler to reveal the old listings, some of which are probably expired.

Wendy Lindstrom (f/m historical & historical western romance @ $3.99-$4.99 via Smashwords). Backlist by St. Martin's Press & Dorchester/Leisure.
  • Shades of Honor 2002 St. Martin's Press post-US Civil War historical romance, 1st in Grayson Brothers series

Patricia McLinn (f/m contemporary career-oriented & contemporary western romance @ $0.99-$6.99 via Smashwords) In print from Bell Bridge Books. Backlist by Harlequin.
  • Almost a Bride 2001 Silhouette Special Edition contemporary western romance, 1st in Wyoming Wildflower series

Josephine Myles (m/m contemporary & historical romance @ via Smashwords; additional online free reads @ author's website). In print from Samhain, Dreamspinner Press, Amber Allure, etc.
  • Pole Star awkward emergency room encounter erotic short
  • Fuzzy humourous domestic erotic short, sequel to another story

Spoiler:
Marilyn Campbell (romantic suspense via ePublishing Works @ ~ $4 couponable at Kobo and elsewhere). Also published by Ellora's Cave. Offers a 1994 Random House book: Pretty Maids in a Row (A Romantic Suspense Novel of Revenge) not available on Smashwords, but free @ Kobo & iTunes (available to Canadians).

Debra Webb (romantic suspense & contemporary romance @ 99 cents via Smashwords) has been published by at least Harlequin and seems quite popular. Two of contemporary romances are free to all via Smashwords (probably for a limited time): Going to the Chapel and Tempting Trace

Patricia McLinn (western romance @ $0.99-$6.99 via Smashwords) has been published by at least Harlequin and seems to have a lot of wedding-related romances. She offers a contemporary western free to all via Smashwords: Almost a Bride

Christie Craig (romantic comedy & zany comedic mystery/romance @ $0.99-$3.99 via Smashwords) is formerly Dorchester/Leisure published. She offers a follow-up novel in one of her published series free to all via Smashwords: Divorced, Desperate and Delicious

I read Craig's Weddings Can Be Murder when it was an official freebie and it was very funny and the relationships worked out in a surprising, but nicely fitting way.

Peggy Webb (contemporary, time-travel, career-oriented, humorous romance @ $0.99-2.99 via Smashwords). Formerly published by Bantam and offers a free humorous contemporary from their Loveswept line: Donovan's Angel

Moira Rogers (paranormal shapeshifter romance @ 99 cents via Smashwords). Published by Samhain and offers a tie-in story to her Samhain series and the 1st volume of a self-pub werewolf series: Zola's Pride (Southern Arcana, #2.5), Kamikaze (Last Call #1)

Lori Brighton (historical, paranormal, historical paranormal, romantic suspense @ 2.99 via Smashwords). Published by Zebra. Offers a historical, a paranormal, and a historical paranormal romance novella: Love Letters, Historical Romance, The Ghost Hunter, Wild Passion, Story 3 in the Wild Series

Kathryn Shay (contemporary, career-oriented, action, romantic suspense, women's fiction @ 2.99-6.99 via Smashwords). Published by Berkley. Offers a firefighter romance novella excerpted from an anthology: In Too Deep

Josephine Myles (m/m contemporary & erotic romance @ $0.99-2.99 via Smashwords). Published by Samhain. Offers two m/m erotic romance shorts: Fuzzy, Pole Star

I read Pole Star out of curiosity when it showed up in the eReaderIQ slushpile. It was a cute, funny, moderately explicit story about an awkward emergency room encounter with bonus redheads.

Becca Dale (western, contemporary, military, erotic romance @ 1.99-6.99 via Smashwords). Newbie author from Decadent Publishing LLC, who have romance & assorted other genre fiction @ Smashwords in the same price range. Has a western contemporary romance freebied by the publisher to promote the upcoming multi-author Western Escape series: Unspoken Promises

Candice Hern (Regency and other historical romances @ $0.99-4.99 via Smashwords) Previously published by Berkley. Offers: Desperate Measures (A Regency Short Story)

Karen Rose Smith (contemporary, western, career-oriented, family drama romance @ $0.99-3.99 via Smashwords) Published by Harlequin. Offers a 1993 Harlequin Silhouette career-oriented contemporary family drama romance published under the pseudonym Kari Sutherland: Heartfire

Patricia Watters (westerns, historicals, romantic suspense @ $0.99-$2.99 via Smashwords) Formerly published by Harlequin and Avon/HarperCollins. Offers what looks like a frontier western historical free @ iTunes (available to Canadians): Miss Phipps and the Cattle Baron

Laura Leone, penname of fantasy writer Laura Resnick (romantic comedy & suspense, historical romance @ $2.99 via multiple venues including Kobo, Diesel, and All Romance which allow coupon/rebate/loyalty discounts). Formerly published by Harlequin. Offers a free romantic comedy/mystery short originally published in the 2001 anthology Murder Most Romantic: Homicidal Honeymoon

Patricia Rosemoor (romantic suspense, paranormal investigative @ $0.99-$3.99 via Smashwords). Published by Harlequin & Carina. Offers a multi-author supernatural multi-generational historical romance linked-story anthology: Heaven Can Wait.

I actually bought this one for 99 cents when it was on sale during the Backlist E-Books author consortium Xmas holiday promotion, on the grounds that it was the most potentially interesting thing Rosemoor was offering (didn't care for the samples I read of her romantic suspenses) and one of the few titles which the assorted participating sale authors had chosen to price-match on Smashwords instead of only giving the good discount prices on Amazon and occasionally maybe B&N.

I still haven't read it, but I don't regret paying that small amount to help support the idea of DRM-free MultiFormat stuff selling on Smashwords.

Angela Benson (contemporary & inspirational, African-American romances @ $3.99 via Smashwords). Formerly published by Kensington and Avon and Christian publisher Tyndale House. Offers a 1st-in-series contemporary humourous romance short novel, originally out from Kensington in 1995: Friend and Lover

Cynthia Wright (historical romance @ $0.99-$2.99 via Smashwords) offers an historical western romance which she says is the Director's Cut of an originally Ballantine-published book via iTunes: Wildblossom

Patricia Hagan, whose books are part of Samhain's Retro Romance imprint, offers an historical romantic suspense freebie via iTunes: Orchids in the Moonlight

Harlequin Special Edition-published Beth Kery (contemporary romance @ 2.99 via Smashwords) offers a contemporary romance: Gateway to Heaven

Diana Dempsey (contemporary romantic suspense, maybe humourous or chick-lit @ $0.99-$2.99 via Smashwords) offers her 2002 Onyx debut novel which won a RITA award: Falling Star

Jana DeLeon (romantic comedy/mystery @ $3.99 via Smashwords), formerly published by Dorchester and also Harlequin, offers the 1st in her very funny Mudbug series free: Trouble in Mudbug

This is a zany screwball romantic comedy/mystery series with supernatural elements (involves a ghost). I read this 1st novel when it was an official freebie a couple of years ago (for Dorchester-not-paying-its-authors-royalties values of official, that is) and liked it enough to look up the sequels from the library, which were nice light fun. If the author offers Smashwords coupons during a future sale, I'd probably give her other books a try as well.

Annette Blair (historical romances @ $2.99 via Smashwords). Published by Zebra. Offers the 1st in her previously-published regency Rogue's Club series free (no longer a KDP exclusive, though I don't know how long/if they'll stay): Undeniable Rogue

Elizabeth Bevarly (contemporary comedic romance @ $0.99-$2.99 via Smashwords). Published by Harlequin Silhouette. Offers a free zany screwball romantic comedy novel: My Man Pendleton

Lucinda Brant (historical romances @ $2.99-$5.99 via Smashwords). Seems to only be published once by New Concepts Publishing, who are kind of iffy and look like they'd accept anything (though I've seen some decent better-established backlist authors have one or two later books out from them). Nevertheless, several MR members have said that they enjoyed her books. Offers a temporarily-free Georgian historical romance to promote her half-price sale on another volume (sale book may have been given a different promotional price at different outlets depending on region; check your usual stores first if interested): The Salt Bride

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