Feature still free, thanks to contributors for spotting and sharing more backlist stuff, preliminary updates go here since I'm still awake (though hopefully not for much longer).
Harlequin Superromance-published Bobby Hutchinson offers her humourous memoir of trying to set up an alternative business in Vancouver when the romance sales slow:
How Not To Run A B&B
Harlequin-published Leslie Kelly offers a newly-written apparently humorous romance:
Bringing Down Sam (Temptation In The City) She's apparently also been offering other newly-written stuff for $2.99
via Smashwords, if you happen to be a fan of hers.
HarperCollins Mischief-published Justine Elyot, who incidentally still has her
official multi-store Mischief freebie available offers the self-explanatory:
Saxonhurst Secrets - a paranormal menage novel This, apparently, is a kind of porno parody take on the traditional Sleepy English Village with Lurking Secrets™.
Darlene Panzera claims to have won the Debbie Macomber story-writing contest,
which turns out to be true and thus will have her novella published in an upcoming anthology by HarperCollins' Avon imprint. For KDP, she offers a romance short story:
A Look of Love
And as for author claims of somewhat more dubious provenance, another ex-Oceanview Publishing set of authors are still claiming that their book is being offered by said publisher. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. The test will be if this keeps popping up KDP-free like a sprouting of mushrooms every couple of weeks like the other probably-unofficial ones do (Oceanview rarely repeats the real ones, and they're usually good for a month and show up on the
official Time-Limited Offers freebie list, and don't seem to have ever gone free in the UK store). Linda Reid & Deborah Shlian's college radio host vs stalker thriller, originally out from Oceanview in 2009 and possibly not still out from them now:
Dead Air (Sammy Greene Mysteries)
For what it's worth, we did get a
different version of this late last year as a possibly-official freebie perhaps dating from before all the KDP Select stuff started, which is at a different price and properly linked to the paper and audio editions. The "new" version appears to have removed all the text-indents in the paragraphs and the scene spacing that exist in the maybe-official one.
I kind of wonder about bootlegging now, as fake pirate editions would explain a lot about things. Or Oceanview are choosing to distribute a really inferior second version of their product via KDP Select, or the authors have run out of their free days on the other edition and have put up a new one so that they can get more KDP publicity, as some other backlist authors have been noted to do.
(ETA: Mystery solved, and the answer is option #2. At least for some of these, at any rate, Oceanview has
apparently been planning 1-day freebie-izations for June via KDP Select.
You'd think they wouldn't need to do it that way because they've already got an official in to the regular Amazon promotional channels to freebie their books at will every month and apparently they're a large enough publisher that they don't need to yank their books from the other stores to do so {or they may just be violating the terms of KDP Select}.
But they really need to work on the quality of what they're offering via KDP versus the regular channels because that formatting discrepancy is just messed up.)
And finally, a book which is not being offered via KDP Select (unless it's freshly about to be yanked from All Romance eBooks where it's apparently one of their recent top sellers), but playing pricing catchup with somewhere. I may not know where this is coming from, but at least I know who's offering it. Total-E-Bound-published Canadian Jade Buchanan returns with an apparently-humourous m/m/m shapeshifter erotic ménage romance which is 2nd in her 5-flames on the ARE heat index series :
Duck Fart (Wolf Creek)
Backlist repeats from Ann Tatlock. Established author repeats by James Scott Bell.
Happy reading, if you happen to spot anything you think you might like, especially if you happen to pick all those apparently-humourous romance-related offerings we seem to have gotten in this batch of stuff.