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A late dip into the slushpile as I've had a very busy and tiring day and haven't even been able to look until just now (the only reason I'm still awake to type this is because I'm sufficiently food-deprived that I'm doing the trawl while eating ginger chicken to stave off impending starvation instead of heading straight for the land of blissful unconsciousness).
We have a few nifty new things from well-established writers offering some self-pubs continuing series they've offered previously, and we also have two genuine backlist treats, one of which I'd class as quite important as far as history/world events go.
If you pick up only one book from the slushpile today, it should probably be this one:
Acclaimed British journalist Robert J. Cox' (
Wikipedia entry) first-hand experiences of the Argentinian "Dirty War" under the oppressive government regime form the basis of his son's book about those troubling times, originally published in 2008 by the Evening Post Publishing Company:
Dirty Secrets, Dirty War
UK historical fiction writer Harriet Smart returns with a 1995 Hodder Headline-published WWI-set drama which looks like it may be in the same series as one offered earlier:
The Lark Ascending
Avon-published David Kessler offers a legal mystery/thriller which apparently continues his Avon-published series:
Marked Man (an Alex Sedaka thriller)
Simon & Schuster-published Peter Michael Rosenberg returns with a semi-sfnal literary fiction about some guy who apparently has some kind of possibly hallucinatory break with reality, which he imagines to run upon microscopic principles:
The Uncertainty Principle
Penguin-published UK writer John Matthews returns with a YA urban fantasy adventure/thriller which he says started life as a film script:
Blind School
Adams Media/Tyrus-published Seth Harwood returns with another in his Hollywood action film star turned sleuth mystery/thriller series:
Jack Palms in Triad Death Match (Jack Palms Crime)
ISFDBed Phoebe Matthews returns with a mini-collection of shorts in her urban fantasy setting:
Guard Dog? (Mudflat Magic)
I have this soft spot for the Legion of Super-Heroes, who are kind of incredibly out of sync with the rest of the DC Comics Universe despite repeated attempts to reboot and retrofit them again and again (also, I like how rejected Legion members who inevitably get publicly humiliated at the tryouts by the actual Legion members who mostly really shouldn't be throwing stones when it comes to their own brittle glass houses of "stupidest-sounding superpower ever" end up being their generally ubercompetent future nemeses; they ought to learn to treat applicants less crappily and maybe those won't be out for revenge, REVENNNNGE!!!!! later on — you'd think those umpty dozen anti-Legion squads or whatever made up of the rejects would teach them eventually). So I hereby include the self-explanatory:
Teenagers from the Future: Essays on the Legion of Super-Heroes This has a foreword by Matt Fraction, who writes for Marvel Comics, IIRC.
I also have this soft spot for "Wicked Traveler" type phrasebooks, so I hereby include some linkage for this "Cheeky Bastard Phrasebooks" series (I will not vouch for the accuracy or usability of the language contained within):
Just the two of them thus far Bonus linkage to the
classic Zompist phrasebook online, which will teach you to say some really essential stuff for internet participation in the eternal rolling Heinlein flamewar in no fewer than 8 languages.
Small presses which have some new offerings amidst their repeats include:
Xcite Books (more erotic romance & erotica),
Books We Love/BWLPP (assorted genre fiction),
MuseItUp (probably an imprint of BWLPP, more assorted genre fiction).
Oh, and if you're into studying medicine, some people from the Audio Digest website which apparently does some specialty guides for things is offering a bunch free:
Linkage for the lot
Happy reading, if you manage to spot anything you think you might like, or you learn some useful cheeky phrases that will help you in internet disputes.