You remember that vintage Playboy Magazine-printed Jewish James Bond spoof series which I wanted to make the KDP title feature a few days ago?
Turns out it's not KDP at all, and author Sol Weinstein is generously offering it free to all around the world in the format of their choice.
Non-Kindlers/Amazon-shoppers/worldwide customers for whom it was not price-matched, go forth and enjoy this e-printing of Pocket Books' 1965 collected edition of
Loxfinger, an "Israel Bond Oy-Oy-7" adventure, DRM-free @
Smashwords (may be price-matched in other preferred outlets of yours), and if you happen to enjoy it, note that the
rest of series is $2.99 a pop.
Anyway, kind of a boring day for the slushpile, sf/fantasy backlist-wise, although we have a nifty tie-in short story to a Baen series which you can sample for free on their website, and we've got some more minor shorts.
And the default feature title of the day is something for which we've previously gotten other volumes of free (one of which had also been a title feature by default for lack of anything better), so I thought I might as well post it for anyone who's been following the series thus far.
And we have some other interesting mystery/steampunk shorts and there's even some Christian fiction for people who read it.
Everything But the Squeal by Timothy Hallinan who was eventually nominated for an Edgar Award is the 2nd in his Simeon Grist Intrepid Professor-Turned-PI mysteries, for which we've previously received the 1st and 6th free.
This was originally out from New American Library in hardcover in 1990.
Free with DRM for who knows how long @ Amazon
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Robert B. Parker and Robert Crais fans will enjoy 2011 "Best Novel" nominee Hallinan's overeducated private eye, Simeon Grist. In the second book in Hallinan's cult series, originally published in the 1990s, Grist takes a case, that leads him to the phantom neighborhoods of L.A.'s lost children.
Missing thirteen-year-old Aimee Sorrell, who ran all the way from Kansas to be a star. But Aimee's trail soon leads Simeon to the city morgue, the first stop on a perilous journey to find out what happens to America's lost children when they go looking for love in all the wrong places.
I-forget-who-published-her-but-she's-been-published Lise McClendon returns with some short stories which tie into the novel she offered free to all via Smashwords a while ago:
Dear Alix: Jackson Hole Short Stories (Alix Thorssen Mysteries)
Baen-published Dave Freer & Eric Flint return to offer another short, which is a fantasy mystery set in the Heirs of Alexandria alternate fantasy Renaissance Venice setting co-written with Mercedes Lackey (1st book in series is a
promo giveaway via the Baen Free Library):
The Witch's Murder
Linda L. Richards offers a mystery/thriller short:
Dearborn 9-1-1 The 2004 Mira-published 1st in her Madeline Carter series is still free (and now seems to have been definitively yanked from Smashwords this time around, instead of playing pricing catch-up again):
Mad Money
Tina Gerow via Books We Love/BWLPP offers her 2006 Triskelion small-pressed paranormal romance:
Stone Maiden. As usual, Books We Love/BWLPP have a mix of new and repeats, some by established authors, in their freebies today.
ISFDBed Phoebe Matthews returns with a set of steampunk short stories:
Steampunk Man and More (Wicked Good)
Minor ISFDBed Mark Edward Hall returns with an omnibus edition contain a novel, some novellas, and what he says is an award-winning short story of assorted horror/suspense and Egyptian archaeological adventure:
Mark Edward Hall Library, Vol. 1 (Boxed Set)
Minor ISFDBed horror editor Armand Rosamilia offers the 2nd in a batch of zombie shorts for which we previously received the 1st volume free:
Dying Shortly Volume 2
Minor erotic romance imprint BookStrand-published Lisa Greer returns with another gothic romance short:
Lady of the Lighthouse (Delia Daugherty Serials)
Janet Miller who seems to also write as Cricket Starr has had a few titles out from New Concepts Publishing, who mainly do erotic romance from newbies but have had a couple of things out from previously-established authors. Here's her sci-fi romance if you're interested:
Imperfect Judgment
Bea Carlton has had a number of novels out from small Christian imprint Thorndike Press. She offers the 3rd in some sort of family saga/mystery suspense thriller series:
In The Foxes' Lair (Randolph Family)
Chris Hambleton offers some kind of religious/political thriller apparently under the aegis of small Christian imprint Xulon Press in 2010:
The Cell
Ben Osborne appears to have had a few books published by small imprint Troubadour, which seems to have published more than one author's work (a bit hard to tell, since the default filter setup on Amazon's advanced search is annoying and I'm not expending the energy to tweak it for potentially better results). In any case, he quotes what looks like local Welsh newspaper praise for:
The Hyperion Legacy (Danny Rawlings Mysteries Book 1)
Another one of these graphic novels for your collection if you've been collecting:
IT'S A MADHOUSE OUT THERE (APP BOOK) (JAZAN WILD'S FUHOUSE OF HORRORS)
Sechin Tower says that they worked for a particular game design studio and a quickie google search backs them up. So possibly they might have decent world-building chops for the background to their sci-fi thriller:
Mad Science Institute
You know what we need? More books for the kiddies which emphasize the values of logic, reason, self-education, and science over superstition and willful ignorance. A quick skim of the sample for this says that the prose isn't obviously bad, so I therefore include:
Logic to the Rescue, which is subtitled "Adventures in Reason", and its sequel
Castles and Chemistry (Logic to the Rescue)
Various backlist/established-author repeats (I'm not going to bother to distinguish them this time around, caveat searcher) from Billie Sue Mosiman, Ray Banks, Barbara Levenson, Ken McClure, Carol Buchanan. And those of you who enjoyed newbie self-pub sci-fi humour writer Barry Barroldson's work and want to win a signed sketch, he's apparently got instructions in his blurbs on how to do so, and he repeats a freebie of his so the new people can try his stuff, if they want.
Happy reading, if indeed you manage to spot something you think you might like, or the adventurous kiddies learn to rescue themselves with logic.