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