Minor updates for new stuff that showed up today:
Carina-published Robert Appleton returns with a 15,000 word "novelette" which is apparently historical and sounds vaguely horror-ish:
Sunset on Ramree: History's Deadliest Crocodile Attack
Former Scotland on Sunday article writer turned Zen monk Barry Graham returns with another of his gritty urban noir-ish litfic novels which quotes praise from some French outlet:
When It All Comes Down to Dust
Edgar-nominated Libby Sternberg returns with two suspenseful historical PI mysteries in a series set during the 1940s, which look pretty promising:
Linkage for the lot
Decadent Publishing returns to offer, well… there's a story that goes with exactly how I happen to recognize this author's name and works, and it's
a really funny story, but probably not one you should be reading at work/home if anyone's prone to reading over your shoulder (no images, but swearing and coarse language in the both the comments and the bafflingly-and-OMGWTFBBQ-phrased quotes from the other book in the original commentaries linked to from that link).
If you've ever wondered where the word "queeb" came from, well, now you know without without having to hit up the Urban Dictionary for an NSFW definition.
Anyway, this seems to be some sort of semi-sequel/vaguely-related work, and I clap my hands like a demented baby fur seal in glee to see this in the slushpile, because it's bound to provide sporfletastic entertainment of some sort or other
(with bonus entertainment in the reviews, as well):
Tender is the Knight It's a probably-erotic romance set amongst historical recreationist SCA cosplayers, by the way, for
very loose values of "historical", "erotic", and "romance", if it's anything like the presumably-first book in the maybe-series was said to have gone.
Semi-significant repeats from Stephen Hunt who is reoffering the 1st in his sf space opera series (the 2nd of which was a shared feature title some weeks ago long after the 1st had expired) if you missed it and another books as well. Also, ISFDBed fellow MR member author Kathryn Lance is offering a repeat of her 1993 YA kid's adventure tale and ISFDBed fellow MR member editor Keith Brooke is offering some sfnal repeats from his Infinity Plus imprint, some of which have not been seen since December, according to my archive.
Romance readers should check Britomart's May Romance thread, which has some new and repeats by established authors.
Happy reading, if you manage to spot something you think you might like, sufficient that you hear no disappointed queeb sounds coming from any places, safe for work or otherwise.