So it seems that long-established backlist specialty republisher e-Reads is again experimenting with the KDP Select exclusive-or-else option on new releases.
Incidentally, e-Reads have a number of
Fictionwise-available new releases of sfnal interest with 15% off which stacks with the
40% off weekly coupon, including some Robert Silverberg, a World Fantasy Award finalist by Canadian Terence M. Green, and a speculative military thriller by the authors of last week's e-Reads KDP freebie, which is
highly recommended by fellow MR member author garygibsonsf over in the Reading Recs forum.
Now That You've Got Me Here, What Are We Going to Do? by Ruth Dickson is a vintage couples' sex advice book originally out from David McKay Publishing in 1972 with the prefix " A Non-Marriage Manual".
Dickson, it seems, is one of those 60s-70s liberated advice givers for the then-new sexual revolution and e-Reads have been republishing her classic works on male/female relationships & societal gender interactions in recent months.
Free without DRM for who knows how long @ Amazon
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Having made a success and a series of cogent points about the complexities of Mistress-hood in her first book, MARRIED MEN MAKE THE BEST LOVERS, Ruth Dickson gets down to basics and tells us a lot more than the obvious about the ins and outs of lovemaking.
With her classic, breezy, entertaining style, she instructs the uninformed and enlightens the already educated with a bit of science and a lot of blunt truth about the hows, whys and special tricks of sex for fun, in or out of wedlock. The fact that she firmly believes that unwed sex-play is more fun than the married variety doesn’t detract from her wisdom and her expertise. From “The Nitty Gritty” (both his and hers) to “The Other Side of the Bed” and from the beginning explanation of “Why Are We Doing This?” to the grand summation of “What Is Sex, Really?” Dickson gives an advanced course in the art of love and the pleasures of sex in all its permutations.
One of the first of many sexual instruction guides that followed in its wake, NOW THAT YOU'VE GOT ME HERE, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? was the frontrunner of the genre, dispensing basic information and much more in this amusing, highly readable work. Readers of either sex will be the richer and the better informed for taking an opportunity to learn at the feet (and other areas) of a Master. Or, more accurately, Mistress.
Chester Burton Brown, who's made some kind of contributions to small Canadian sf magazines, returns with some kind of sfnal thing set on Mars and apparently involving robot reproduction:
The Automatic Marlboro
Quite a number of aspiring authors who apparently don't proofread (or are just plain illiterate) have offered "
a copulation of" their best stories. This one apparently means it, on purpose, and has a mildly amusing content disclaimer, so I hereby link:
A Copulation of Stories Volume I
Much-praised backlist repeat from Charlie Carillo and a repeat story collection from Stoker award-nominee Jeremy C. Shipp. Minor established author repeats from David Bain, Mona Ingram, Adam Bertocci, Robert J. Duperre. Romance readers should also check Britomart's May Romance thread for some backlist/established author Smashwords freebies which are available to all (may be price-matched in participating distributory outlets).
Happy reading, if it turns out old-school sex advice can spice up your intimate life.
ETA: Previously-included Ken Shakin returns with the follow-up to his Lethe Press republished LGBT literary fiction novel:
THE SMELLIEST MAN ALIVE -More Love That Sucks (Love Sucks)
ETA 2: This also looks interesting and may perhaps accompany some kind of documentary and has an introduction by an award-winning bullfighter, so I hereby include:
The Bull and The Ban - The Book
ETA 3: Connie Shelton had the 1st of of her other series out from a non-vanity small press back in the day (I forget which and am not looking it up again). The following book is 2nd in her Samantha Sweet cozy mystery series and is not KDP Select, but playing pricing catch-up with Smashwords (where she offered the 1st in series free during Read an Ebook Week):
Sweet's Sweets
ETA 4: Celebrity-covering media personality Sandro Monetti (
IMDB entry) offers the self-explanatory:
Colin Firth: The Man Who Would Be King which apparently has a bunch of newspaper praise from gossip/tabloid-type rags, quoted in the blurb.
ETA 5: Minor ISFDBed Jordan Krall returns with some kind of vaguely speculative experimental literary fiction thing which the blurb likens to Ballard, Burroughs, and Malzberg if you want to try it:
False Magic
ETA 6: Ruth Berman (
ISFBD entry), who's edited a fanzine and written old-school officially-published Star Trek short stories back in the day offers an interesting-looking fantasy novel with a female knight, set in a world based upon tales about Charlemagne:
Bradamant's Quest