Free (Kindle KDP) Six Against the Stars by Stephen Hunt [SF Zany Space Opera Romp]

[Gudy]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

MeiLin Miranda has had short stories included in anthologies from sf/fantasy/specialty-themed erotic romance publisher Circlet Press, and she offers two shorts, one of them published in said anthology, and the other which seems to be a mystery/horror: Linkage for them both

I don't know that I'd classify Dalston Junction as horror, exactly. Mystery/SF seems more like it to me. Anyway, both of those are well worth a read - certainly at that price. Miranda is offering a couple more short stories on her web site where she also posts her Wild Wild West themed serial Scryer's Gulch and serializes her novels, the second of which is just about ready to get published as an e-book.

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by Blue Tyson

Also read this one, which was good, too :-

In the Company of Ghosts – Stephen Hunt

So he's versatile and better than professionally competent. Probably the former led him to offer these, stuff he wanted to write but publisher than only wants fat fantasy of some sort wasn't interested in.

They seem to be all 2.99 in general, so a good price.

Oh - just realised I already own that one.

[ATDrake]

Title feature still free, and there are a couple of things in the slushpile I want to pick up in my main account as well, so this is the best place to dump the lot for my personal convenience.

Not sorted, and I skipped over a bunch of repeats and all the romance stuff which popped up in Britomart's thread linked above.

John Walters has some minor but long-running credits for short fiction in his ISFDB entry, and is an alumnus of the Clarion workshop which was run by Kate Wilhelm (wife of the late Damon Knight and a very good classic sf writer in her own right, though she's since switched over to doing mostly mysteries). He offers the speculative sfnal collection: Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales

Riley Owens' self-explanatory short is out from the same ImagineThat! Studios which has been carries HarperCollins-published Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris' stories: Slave to the Stars (Erotic Flights of Fantasy)

Joan Marie Verba used to contribute to those official Darkover fanfic anthologies that Marion Zimmer Bradley would edit herself. She offers a 1991-Lerner published educational science book for kids, which has a School Library Journal review: Voyager: Exploring the Outer Planets

Maria Hudgins returns with another in her cozy mystery series, 2008 Five Star published: Death of a Lovable Geek (Dotsy Lamb Travel Mysteries)

Probably self-pub but with local acclaim and a Wikipedia article Irish writer T.S. O'Rourke returns with an historical novel: The Republican: An Irish Civil War Story

Berkley & Midnight Ink-published Deb Baker offers a cozy mystery originally published in 2009 by Wheeler under the title "Ding Dong Dead": Guise And Dolls: A Gretchen Birch Murder Mystery

Sylvia Haute's short story is out from the same Goldport Press which releases Baen-published Sarah A. Hoyt's shorts: Tum At Eventide

Harlequin-published Sydell Voeller has a circus-based contemporary romance involving a trapeze artist and a veterinarian (I hope she takes care of the elephants), via Books We Love/BWLPP: Summer Magic

Steven Torres who was previously included for a short story published in either the Ellery Queen or Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazines returns with a novel-length tale: Lucy Cruz and the Chupacabra Killings

ISFDBed Jeremy C. Shipp offers another of his short horror collections: Attic Clowns: Volume Three

2006 small-press/minor imprint mass market paperbacked Roseanne McDowell returns with another contemporary romance via BWLPP: Designed for Love

Dinah Lee Kung says that another work of hers was nominated for the "Orange Prize For Fiction" in 2004. She offers a general/litfic "mordant comedy" involving a violinist and laser surgery, hardcovered by UK publisher Orion in 2006: Under Their Skin

Dawn DeAnna Wilson returns with her 2008 The Wild Rose Press-ed contemporary romance: Leaving the Comfort Cafe

Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense author Linda Hall returns with an inspirational non-romantic-looking mystery which I think is in the same series as the other thing we previously got from her: Margaret's Peace (Coast of Maine Series)

Suzanne Robb has a minor ISFDB entry and a mini-collection of shorts out from newbie horror imprint Dark Continents: Were-wolves, Apocalypses, and Genetic Mutation, Oh My!

Cara Marsi is another The Wild Rose Press alumna and offers an m/f foodie contemporary romance (which is like the second in two days, are these becoming a niche subgenre now?): A CATERED ROMANCE

Avalon small-pressed Canadian Mona Ingram returns with a contemporary romance (maybe a repeat, that cover looks kind of familiar, though lots of romance covers look like that so it could just be generic transferrence of the pose or somesuch): Fallen Angel

Tom Roulstone is an Irish-born Canadian resident who has taught at a BC university. His publication credits include a number of historical western paperbacks out from a Covenant Communications, which looks like a small faith-based imprint (a random scan of the review for one of the chick-lit-looking romances that popped up under their name said it was "clean"). He offers a western cowboy romance short: Arapaho Angel (Cheyenne Springs)

Maxine Billings has been published by Harlequin's Kimani imprint. She offers a self-pub contemporary romance which is a sequel to one of her Kimani titles: In Sickness and In Health (The Breaking Point)

In 1976, Jim Lindsey had a slim volume of poems published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. He offers a Nova Scotia-set, somewhat speculative-sounding (there's some kind of Time Traveler's Wife/Sliding Doors element to this, it looks like) literary fiction novel: The Flaw in the Fabric (A Travellers Guide for Lost Souls)

Carl Bussjaeger has no ISFDB entry and appears to be purely self-pub, but he says one of his previous works was nominated for the Prometheus Award for libertarian science fiction which was founded by L. Neil Smith whose books are available via Phoenix Pick Press who give us the sfnal Free eBook of the Month offers. So here's a bunch of his things available free, if you're interested (including the nominated novel): Linkage for all 5

Barry Graham says that, among other things, he is a Zen monk and has written articles for Scotland on Sunday. The latter, at least, is verifiably true, for 2000 values of verifiable. Here's his "neo-noir tale of seething cruelty and rationalized evil": How Do You Like Your Blue-Eyed Boy?

Previously-included small-pressed Gordon Ryan contributes one of his political thrillers to this multi-author omnibus: A Triple Thriller Fest

Stephen Beam says he is a video game artist who has worked on Nintendo and Star Trek stuff, and a quick google bears him out. Here is his self-explanatory short: Atom Malfunction (a homebrewed spaceship leads to a twisted reality adventure)

ISFDBed David Bain offers another short: Faith: A 9-11 Story

DeAnna Knippling has minor ISFDB credits for a few short stories in different outlets. Here's her cracktastic looking tale about saving the world from aliens using beer: Alien Blue

If perhaps you had a bit of difficulty with the terms of the trade used in the previously-included guide for the aspiring spy or the true accounts of famous ones, here's another handy offering from the same secretive and nameless author: The Espionage Glossary (The Anonymous Spy Series)

Happy reading, if indeed you manage to spot something you think you might like.

ETA: St. Martin's/Minotaur-published J.D. Rhoades returns with a self-pub looking law enforcement vs serial killer thriller: Gallows Pole

[Dr. Drib]

Picked up yet a few more.

Thank you.



Don

[ATDrake]

Feature still free, minor updates below. Skipped lots of repeats, and it looks like all the Paypal-refugee porno people were saving their stuff as weekend specials.

Fun fact: lactation/breast-feeding erotica (at least the photo/video version) is actually banned in Canada. I'm not sure exactly why, but it's a relatively recent ban that left a lot of media-commentator pundits baffled as to whatever reasoning was behind it, IIRC. But in case it's a reading kink of yours, you can get some free from Amazon today. I do not vouch in any way for the actual quality or enjoyability of what you get. Caveat 1-clicker.

Not sorted, though I did move some of the more significant things to the top and stick the really marginal stuff at the bottom.

Susie Bright is a moderately well-known US media personality who is a cultural commentator and feminist sex educator (Wikipedia entry). She offers a collection of quasi-academic cultural/political essays: Susie Bright's Sexual Reality

Minnesota-educated Beijing expatriate Chinese-literary-magazine published Lisa Zhang Wharton's historical literary fiction novel based on the doomed 1989 Chinese pro-democracy movement is a featured repeat, because when I originally included it, IIRC someone was disappointed at not being able to pick it up, having only seen the listing after it expired: Last Kiss in Tiananmen Square

Fellow MR member author Joan Hall Hovey offers her 1991 Zebra-published suspense/maybe-horror-ish debut thriller which she says is one of her unspecified award-winners: Listen to the Shadows

Gary C. King offers a true crime account about a 1984 Yale student murder, originally published by Kensington's Pinnacle imprint in 1994 under the title Web of Deceit, which he has now changed to: Murder in Room 305

M. Ruth Myers had a number of novels published by Dell and Ballantine back in the 80s. She offers a Depression-era set PI murder mystery, which the blurb says if you like Robert B. Parker's stuff, you should give a try to: No Game for a Dame (Maggie Sullivan mysteries)

Previously-included minor ISFDBed Simon Kewin returns after a long hiatus with another collection of multi-genre speculative fiction short stories which he says includes some of his published ones: Life Cycles

This mini-collection includes a story by Graham Masterson, who was formerly Dorchester-published before they imploded due to not paying their authors: HORROR EXPRESS VOLUME ONE

Previously small-pressed-turned-indie mystery author Connie Shelton offers some writing advice: Show, Don't Tell: Five Secrets to Solving the #1 Problem in Fiction Writing

Fellow MR member author Nigel Bird offers a collection of his crime stories, which includes a story reprinted in the Mammoth Best British Crime Stories 8 (may be a repeat, but it's old enough that I don't have it in the newer just-for-KDP auxiliary account): With Love And Squalor

Previously-included UK small-pubbed John McKenzie who had one of his works adapted for BBC Radio returns with a kids/YA fantasy tale inspired by Tibetan legends: In the Land of the Demon Masters

Previously-included probably self-pubbed Cindy Bouchard has another volume in her BC set historical family saga, which may be a repeat. But it's old enough that I don't have it in the new account and if you've started collecting these late, you probably don't have it either: For All We Have and Are 1914 (Princes of the North)

It occurs to me that I have no idea what probably-theatre-person-whose-autobiography-was-reviewed-by-Time-Magazine Donald Newlove actually writes since I've never bothered to look inside and his blurbs tend to be dadaistically unhelpful in deciding category. But here's another of whatever it is he writes if you've been collecting them: In Search of Lost Jamestown (Handbook of the Soul for Writers and Readers)

Formerly Samhain-published-turned-indie Melissa Schroeder offers a paranormal romance with an archaeologist in it: Callum (The Cursed Clan)

Probably self-pub-but-I've-included-her-because-I-like-stuff-with-archaeologists-in-it Susan Parry returns with the 1st in her series of: Corpse Way (The Yorkshire Dales Mystery Series)

Mike Dennis has had a book out from L&L Dreamspell, a minor imprint which is available via Fictionwise. Here is his noir short story: BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE EYES

Kim Robinson offers some kind of multi-generational historical family saga (may contain romantic content) that was 2005 small-pressed by Whiskey Creek, another minor Fictionwise-available imprint: The Roux in the Gumbo

Minor ISFDBed Benjamin X. Wretland offers another two in his supernatural novella series: The Retribution of Nathan James (Sketches from the Spanish Mustang) and The Five Fortunes of Fulano (Sketches from the Spanish Mustang

Rachel Ann Nunes offers a contemporary romance out from small faith-based press Covenant Communications in 2001: This Time Forever

Phaze or Loose-ID published Jude Mason offers an m/m romance short (may or may not also have erotic content) which ties into a series co-written with also Phaze-published Jenna Byrnes, via Books We Love/BWLPP: Livin' on a Prayer (Slippery When Wet)

Katherine Storm claims to be the self-pub pseudonym of Avon published historical romance writer Karen Ranney. Here is her non-romantic: Murder by Mortgage (Murder Pride Murders)

I don't know how good this food self-help guide is, but I can certainly agree with the first part of the sentiment expressed in the title and perhaps you might find it of use if you do as well: What The Heck Am I Tasting? Smart Wine Drinking For Less.

This is self-pub, but the premise in the blurb looks fun and the sample prose, while not great, is at least reasonably grammatical and coherent, and I like the idea of "Evil Efficiency Consultant": Consultation with a Vampire (How to Succeed in Evil)

I'm just including this for 4th best set of brazen author lies in the bio/product description, and he seems to be a fellow Canadian as well: Let Me Put My Poems In You (Engage Books)

Happy reading, if you happen to be that one poster who wanted to try that Tiananmen Square novel and happen not to miss it this time around.

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Thanks as always ATDrake!

[Dr. Drib]

That's former fellow MR member. That writer was banned for repeated self-promotional spamming attacks, all after a series of numerous warnings.

Don
(Moderator)

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Thank you for the list. I picked up a few nice titles.

Don