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ATDrake · 04-24-2012, 01:48 PM

More assorted backlist YA and some humour in the slushpile today (actually, some lingering from late last night, but I wasn't sure it would still be free 20 minutes from when I found it, so I didn't bother updating then).

Title feature author Susan Price has another YA/children's book, this one a collection of re-told folktales apparently relayed by a severed head, out from Faber & Faber in 1993: Heads and Tales

Enid Richemont, who apparently writes books for younger readers which have been published by Candlewick, who sometimes give us official freebies, offers 3 which were published by Walker Books (apparently a division of Bloomsbury) in the 80s and 90s: Linkage for the lot, which includes an sfnal one and something involving a "dragoncat"

Pauline Fisk offers a fantasy-ish escape to another world YA tale which was originally out from Lion in 1990 and later picked up for reprint by Bloomsbury in 2003: Midnight Blue

Australian Colin Bowles, previously included for having the probably-5th-best (I've really lost count) of brazen author lies in the bio for one of his other books, returns with a 1990 Angus & Robertson-published satirical vocabulary: The Wit's Dictionary

The late Joel Townsley Rogers is apparently a minor old-school pulp fiction writer who shows up in magazines available in the Internet Archive. Apparently his son is reissuing some of his works, and here's a WWI-set aviation/espionage pulp thriller, from the looks of it: Secret Operative K-13

Philip Hawley Jr. is apparently using KDP to offer his 2007 HarperCollins medical/suspense (maybe horror-ish) thriller, but still listing it under their publisher name: Stigma I like how his Critical Acclaim section in the blurb is all quotes from "New York Times bestselling author"s until you get to the last one, and then there's this feeling of "one of these things is not like the others".

ISFDBed Stoker-winning fellow MR member author David Niall Wilson offers a new collection of his short fiction and poetry: Etched Deep & Other Dark Impressions

Larry Names, who really should link up his backlist better, or at least put the provenance info in the blurb as well as on low-contrast font on the cover, returns with a 1991-Berkley-published 1st in series western originally released under the penname Bryce Harte: A Texas Creed

The Bandit Creek series of shared-universe multi-author (some of them published authors) western romances has another offering for your collection, this one from newbie writer Steena Holmes: Devil Unknown (Bandit Creek Books)

Richard Mason who wrote some kind of column for an Arizona environmental group magazine returns with another one of his based-on-RL growing-up-in-the-40s/50s Deep South stories if you've been collecting them: The Mystery of the Canebrake

Significant backlist repeats from previously title-featured Canadians Arthur Slade and Sharon Rowse (both award-winners, though not necessarily for the book on offer).

Other backlist/published story repeats from John Matthews, Robert W. Walker, Simon Kewin, Amber D. Sistla, Shock Totem magazine, Alex Irvine. Established author self-pub repeats from fellow MR member Patty Jansen, Donna Fasano. Assorted stuff from Books We Love/BWLPP as usual (some series repeats in case you have a gap to fill).

Happy reading, if indeed you manage to spot something you think you might like, or you've been looking for presumably decent-quality YA stuff to read to the kiddies (bonus points if they'll think your retelling tales retold by a severed head will be awesome).

04-24-2012, 01:48 PM	#2
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	More assorted backlist YA and some humour in the slushpile today (actually, some lingering from late last night, but I wasn't sure it would still be free 20 minutes from when I found it, so I didn't bother updating then). Title feature author Susan Price has another YA/children's book, this one a collection of re-told folktales apparently relayed by a severed head, out from Faber & Faber in 1993: Heads and Tales Enid Richemont, who apparently writes books for younger readers which have been published by Candlewick, who sometimes give us official freebies, offers 3 which were published by Walker Books (apparently a division of Bloomsbury) in the 80s and 90s: Linkage for the lot, which includes an sfnal one and something involving a "dragoncat" Pauline Fisk offers a fantasy-ish escape to another world YA tale which was originally out from Lion in 1990 and later picked up for reprint by Bloomsbury in 2003: Midnight Blue Australian Colin Bowles, previously included for having the probably-5th-best (I've really lost count) of brazen author lies in the bio for one of his other books, returns with a 1990 Angus & Robertson-published satirical vocabulary: The Wit's Dictionary The late Joel Townsley Rogers is apparently a minor old-school pulp fiction writer who shows up in magazines available in the Internet Archive. Apparently his son is reissuing some of his works, and here's a WWI-set aviation/espionage pulp thriller, from the looks of it: Secret Operative K-13 Philip Hawley Jr. is apparently using KDP to offer his 2007 HarperCollins medical/suspense (maybe horror-ish) thriller, but still listing it under their publisher name: Stigma I like how his Critical Acclaim section in the blurb is all quotes from "New York Times bestselling author"s until you get to the last one, and then there's this feeling of "one of these things is not like the others". ISFDBed Stoker-winning fellow MR member author David Niall Wilson offers a new collection of his short fiction and poetry: Etched Deep & Other Dark Impressions Larry Names, who really should link up his backlist better, or at least put the provenance info in the blurb as well as on low-contrast font on the cover, returns with a 1991-Berkley-published 1st in series western originally released under the penname Bryce Harte: A Texas Creed The Bandit Creek series of shared-universe multi-author (some of them published authors) western romances has another offering for your collection, this one from newbie writer Steena Holmes: Devil Unknown (Bandit Creek Books) Richard Mason who wrote some kind of column for an Arizona environmental group magazine returns with another one of his based-on-RL growing-up-in-the-40s/50s Deep South stories if you've been collecting them: The Mystery of the Canebrake Significant backlist repeats from previously title-featured Canadians Arthur Slade and Sharon Rowse (both award-winners, though not necessarily for the book on offer). Other backlist/published story repeats from John Matthews, Robert W. Walker, Simon Kewin, Amber D. Sistla, Shock Totem magazine, Alex Irvine. Established author self-pub repeats from fellow MR member Patty Jansen, Donna Fasano. Assorted stuff from Books We Love/BWLPP as usual (some series repeats in case you have a gap to fill). Happy reading, if indeed you manage to spot something you think you might like, or you've been looking for presumably decent-quality YA stuff to read to the kiddies (bonus points if they'll think your retelling tales retold by a severed head will be awesome).