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ATDrake · 04-07-2012, 02:21 PM

Pro-tip for KDP Select exclusivising authors/publishers using up their free days: don't dump your entire catalogue of two-dozen-plus works into the slushpile all on the same day. I will get sick of seeing your name/imprint over and over and over again and I'm sure so will everyone else. You get 5 free days out of 90. Use them wisely and space accordingly, because there is such a thing as bad (and badly-considered) publicity.

We've got more Commonwealth stuff (even some Canadiana!), and a few very promising sf/fantasy/horror offerings as well.

Ray Banks is a Scottish writer who is currently published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has a number of stories reprinted in those Mammoth Book of Best British Crime anthologies. He offers a noir-ish thriller which seems to have been previously published (quotes a lot of specific newspaper praise in the blurb) but is not linked to a paperback and I'm not going to dig: Dead Money

UK writer Simon Cheshire has written YA fiction novels for Delacorte, which IIRC is owned by Random House now, and offers his self-explanatory: You've Got To Read This: A Beginner's Guide To Great Writers And The History Of Books

Fellow MR member author Joan Hall Hovey, who's been previously published by one of the Big 6 crime imprints which I can't recall, returns with divorcee vs stalker/killer thriller: Chill Waters Her new publisher Books We Love/BWLPP again have a mix of new and repeats, if you care to do a keyword search on their imprint names.

New American Library-published Jessica Barksdale Inclan returns with a literary suspense/family drama/women's fiction which comes with an explanation for why she was inspired to write it: Forgotten

It turns out that what Donald Newlove writes, or at least used to write, was some sort of experimental literary fiction which got reviewed in Time Magazine (along with his somehow-theatre-related autobiography), according to a Google search. Anyway, he returns with some sort of omnibus edition of novels based around film stars: STARLITE PHOTOPLAYS and some poetry, also about film and literature personalities: THE THREE-HEADED PET DOG

Another ImagineThat! Studios-backed sexy sf/fantasy short from Riley Owens for your collection: The Sins of Princes (Erotic Flights of Fantasy) and : Airship Desire (Erotic Flights of Fantasy), which puts the steamy in steampunk.

A YA fantasy short by Emma St. John also via ImagineThat! Studios: Elysium (Chronicles of the Last Herald)

UK writer Katherine Roberts ( ISFDB) also offers a YA fantasy adventure set in ancient Egypt, originally out from Harper in 2005 and with quoted blurb praise not only from UK newspapers, but also the late UK grand fantasy dame Diana Wynne Jones: The Great Pyramid Robbery (Seven Fabulous Wonders

ISFDBed William King returns another pseudo-Conan-ish sword & sorcery short: The Wolves of War ( A Kormak Novelette)

Minor ISFDBed newbie writer Glen R. Krisch returns to offer another horror thriller: The Nightmare Within

John Zakour (ISFDB entry), who co-writes the intensely funny and recommended Zach Johnson Last PI near-future sci-fi satirical comedy mystery series for DAW, teams up with Shannnon Duffy to write what seems to be an also humourously-inclined: The Couples Guide to Pregnancy & Beyond: He Says, She Says

Cameron Conaway lists a bunch of stuff in his bio, the most relevant of which seems to be that he writes articles for a particular ESPN affiliate and was the University of Arizona's Poet-In-Residence for a specified period of time, both of which seem to check out upon search. He claims to be a "Warrior Poet", which I suppose harks back to the last days of the samurai and this is his book about that: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

Avon-published Miriam Minger, who normally writes historical romances, offers a suspense thriller about a kidnapped kid with possibly conspiracy behind it (may turn out to be a romantic suspense, but maybe not, from what I see in the blurb). This is not KDP Select, but playing pricing catch-up with Smashwords or elsewhere: Ripped Apart

Ben Rehder returns with another installment in his apparently-comedic series, this one out from Minotaur in 2005: Guilt Trip (Blanco County Mysteries)

Prominent 80s era AIDS-epidemic journalist/activist Charles Ortleb returns with an omnibus edition of his LGBT-related works: Silence, Exile, and Cunning:Three works of fiction that turn everything you know about the epidemic upside down

Matthew Ismail has written one academic non-fiction biography of prominent Victorian Egyptologist Sir E.A. Wallis Budge out from a small press which actually looks like it mainly publishes chess strategy books, but it's nonetheless eligible for Amazon's textbook credit program. He offers an archaeological antiquities-based treasure-smuggling mystery/thriller novel: Lord of Light

Brendan Connell (ISFDB entry) offers his 2005 Prime-published Vatican-set dark fantasy/conspiracy thriller: The Translation of Father Torturo

Nicola Furlong is a Canadian author who quotes specific praise for her work from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the CBC, which is our national broadcaster. She offers a 1998 Salah small-pressed mystery/suspense novel set around a private girl's school and opera on Vancouver Island. This may possibly have inspirational elements, as her author bio says she's also written some inspirational cozies, but has had the aforementioned praise from the aforementioned secular reviewers: A Hemorrhaging of Souls

Gayle Ann Williams offers an action/adventure post-apocalyptic romance originally published by Dorchester/Love Spell in 2010: Tsunami Blue (The Tsunami Blue Series)

Randy Chandler (ISFDB entry) offers his 2003 small-pressed debut novel: Bad Juju: A Novel of Raw Terror

Daniel I. Russell (ISFDB entry) has only a few small press short story credits thus far, but his debut novel quotes specific blurb praise from prominent horror writer Gord Rollo and Shroud Magazine: Samhane

Sebastian Michael is a Swiss-born playwright who is now UK resident. He offers some sort of self-pub possibly-satirical literary fiction novel which has quoted blurb praise from prominent UK multimedia personality Stephen Fry, and is likened to some of John Irving's early works by the sole Amazon customer reviewer: Angel

If you like sci-fi erotica, this is your lucky day, as Kris Cook, who has some stuff out from small specialty erotic romance imprint BookStrand, offers you a sci-fi f/m/m menage to add to the stuff you probably picked up above: A Perfect World: An Erotic Science Fiction Short Story

Even in the KDP Select let's-throw-everything-including-the-kitchen-sink-into-the-exclusive-or-else slushpile, I don't often see steampunk westerns with dinosaur-riders instead of cowboys, and thus I include: Rexrider (First World's End)

And speaking of "steampunk", or at least heating systems, and dinosaurs, this is the most awesome radiator ever, and I want one even though I live in a temperate climate which gets like 5cms of snow during the coldest part of most years which all melts in the afternoon anyway.

I noticed sf/fantasy, mystery, & litfic specific backlist repeats from Lee Killough, A.A. Attanasio, David B. Riley, M. Ruth Meyers, Jennifer Malin, David Fulmer, Adrian White, and stuff from newbie small press imprints Coffeetown Press and Camel Press if you're missing anything from your collection of such.

Happy reading, if indeed you manage to spot something you think you might like and/or managed to score yourself an awesome Thermosaurus radiator to keep you warm.

04-07-2012, 02:21 PM	#7
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Pro-tip for KDP Select exclusivising authors/publishers using up their free days: don't dump your entire catalogue of two-dozen-plus works into the slushpile all on the same day. I will get sick of seeing your name/imprint over and over and over again and I'm sure so will everyone else. You get 5 free days out of 90. Use them wisely and space accordingly, because there is such a thing as bad (and badly-considered) publicity. We've got more Commonwealth stuff (even some Canadiana!), and a few very promising sf/fantasy/horror offerings as well. Ray Banks is a Scottish writer who is currently published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has a number of stories reprinted in those Mammoth Book of Best British Crime anthologies. He offers a noir-ish thriller which seems to have been previously published (quotes a lot of specific newspaper praise in the blurb) but is not linked to a paperback and I'm not going to dig: Dead Money UK writer Simon Cheshire has written YA fiction novels for Delacorte, which IIRC is owned by Random House now, and offers his self-explanatory: You've Got To Read This: A Beginner's Guide To Great Writers And The History Of Books Fellow MR member author Joan Hall Hovey, who's been previously published by one of the Big 6 crime imprints which I can't recall, returns with divorcee vs stalker/killer thriller: Chill Waters Her new publisher Books We Love/BWLPP again have a mix of new and repeats, if you care to do a keyword search on their imprint names. New American Library-published Jessica Barksdale Inclan returns with a literary suspense/family drama/women's fiction which comes with an explanation for why she was inspired to write it: Forgotten It turns out that what Donald Newlove writes, or at least used to write, was some sort of experimental literary fiction which got reviewed in Time Magazine (along with his somehow-theatre-related autobiography), according to a Google search. Anyway, he returns with some sort of omnibus edition of novels based around film stars: STARLITE PHOTOPLAYS and some poetry, also about film and literature personalities: THE THREE-HEADED PET DOG Another ImagineThat! Studios-backed sexy sf/fantasy short from Riley Owens for your collection: The Sins of Princes (Erotic Flights of Fantasy) and : Airship Desire (Erotic Flights of Fantasy), which puts the steamy in steampunk. A YA fantasy short by Emma St. John also via ImagineThat! Studios: Elysium (Chronicles of the Last Herald) UK writer Katherine Roberts ( ISFDB) also offers a YA fantasy adventure set in ancient Egypt, originally out from Harper in 2005 and with quoted blurb praise not only from UK newspapers, but also the late UK grand fantasy dame Diana Wynne Jones: The Great Pyramid Robbery (Seven Fabulous Wonders ISFDBed William King returns another pseudo-Conan-ish sword & sorcery short: The Wolves of War ( A Kormak Novelette) Minor ISFDBed newbie writer Glen R. Krisch returns to offer another horror thriller: The Nightmare Within John Zakour (ISFDB entry), who co-writes the intensely funny and recommended Zach Johnson Last PI near-future sci-fi satirical comedy mystery series for DAW, teams up with Shannnon Duffy to write what seems to be an also humourously-inclined: The Couples Guide to Pregnancy & Beyond: He Says, She Says Cameron Conaway lists a bunch of stuff in his bio, the most relevant of which seems to be that he writes articles for a particular ESPN affiliate and was the University of Arizona's Poet-In-Residence for a specified period of time, both of which seem to check out upon search. He claims to be a "Warrior Poet", which I suppose harks back to the last days of the samurai and this is his book about that: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet Avon-published Miriam Minger, who normally writes historical romances, offers a suspense thriller about a kidnapped kid with possibly conspiracy behind it (may turn out to be a romantic suspense, but maybe not, from what I see in the blurb). This is not KDP Select, but playing pricing catch-up with Smashwords or elsewhere: Ripped Apart Ben Rehder returns with another installment in his apparently-comedic series, this one out from Minotaur in 2005: Guilt Trip (Blanco County Mysteries) Prominent 80s era AIDS-epidemic journalist/activist Charles Ortleb returns with an omnibus edition of his LGBT-related works: Silence, Exile, and Cunning:Three works of fiction that turn everything you know about the epidemic upside down Matthew Ismail has written one academic non-fiction biography of prominent Victorian Egyptologist Sir E.A. Wallis Budge out from a small press which actually looks like it mainly publishes chess strategy books, but it's nonetheless eligible for Amazon's textbook credit program. He offers an archaeological antiquities-based treasure-smuggling mystery/thriller novel: Lord of Light Brendan Connell (ISFDB entry) offers his 2005 Prime-published Vatican-set dark fantasy/conspiracy thriller: The Translation of Father Torturo Nicola Furlong is a Canadian author who quotes specific praise for her work from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the CBC, which is our national broadcaster. She offers a 1998 Salah small-pressed mystery/suspense novel set around a private girl's school and opera on Vancouver Island. This may possibly have inspirational elements, as her author bio says she's also written some inspirational cozies, but has had the aforementioned praise from the aforementioned secular reviewers: A Hemorrhaging of Souls Gayle Ann Williams offers an action/adventure post-apocalyptic romance originally published by Dorchester/Love Spell in 2010: Tsunami Blue (The Tsunami Blue Series) Randy Chandler (ISFDB entry) offers his 2003 small-pressed debut novel: Bad Juju: A Novel of Raw Terror Daniel I. Russell (ISFDB entry) has only a few small press short story credits thus far, but his debut novel quotes specific blurb praise from prominent horror writer Gord Rollo and Shroud Magazine: Samhane Sebastian Michael is a Swiss-born playwright who is now UK resident. He offers some sort of self-pub possibly-satirical literary fiction novel which has quoted blurb praise from prominent UK multimedia personality Stephen Fry, and is likened to some of John Irving's early works by the sole Amazon customer reviewer: Angel If you like sci-fi erotica, this is your lucky day, as Kris Cook, who has some stuff out from small specialty erotic romance imprint BookStrand, offers you a sci-fi f/m/m menage to add to the stuff you probably picked up above: A Perfect World: An Erotic Science Fiction Short Story Even in the KDP Select let's-throw-everything-including-the-kitchen-sink-into-the-exclusive-or-else slushpile, I don't often see steampunk westerns with dinosaur-riders instead of cowboys, and thus I include: Rexrider (First World's End) And speaking of "steampunk", or at least heating systems, and dinosaurs, this is the most awesome radiator ever, and I want one even though I live in a temperate climate which gets like 5cms of snow during the coldest part of most years which all melts in the afternoon anyway. I noticed sf/fantasy, mystery, & litfic specific backlist repeats from Lee Killough, A.A. Attanasio, David B. Riley, M. Ruth Meyers, Jennifer Malin, David Fulmer, Adrian White, and stuff from newbie small press imprints Coffeetown Press and Camel Press if you're missing anything from your collection of such. Happy reading, if indeed you manage to spot something you think you might like and/or managed to score yourself an awesome Thermosaurus radiator to keep you warm. Last edited by ATDrake; 04-07-2012 at 02:25 PM.