Free (Kindle KDP) Through Shattered Glass by David B. Silva [Fantasy/Horror Awarded]

[ATDrake]

A surprisingly large lot of stuff in the KDP Select exclusive-or-else slushpile, mainly due to the aggressive cross-promotional efforts of a small band of authors who seem to have gathered together to push their works collectively by freebie-ing one and mentioning the other authors' also-freebied works as a tie-in promo in the blurb.

I must say it's a fairly good way to raise the visibility of more obscure books, as long as they're of reasonably equivalent quality (chances are, a poor title will reflect badly on the rest picked up at the same time, if someone begins to associate bad writing encountered with those other authors' names).

Anyway, we have a fairly nice treat in the slushpile for those of you who enjoy dark fantasy/horror, and some more print-published and occasional award-nominee sf shorts for those who prefer that. And a promising-looking historical litfic drama free to all via Smashwords.

Through Shattered Glass by David B. Silva (ISFDB) is a collection of his short stories, originally small-press hardcovered by Gauntlet in 2000, which includes the Bram Stoker Award-winning horror short which he touts in every single one of his blurbs.

This collection, which itself won an International Horror Guild award and was nominated for a Stoker also, includes 17 stories which seem to be assorted horror/suspense/dark fantasy and an introduction by Dean Koontz.

Free for who knows how long @ Amazon main UK DE ES FR IT

Description it's a long blurb which details the stories, so I'm only putting in the first few paragraphs
It's the only window in the room and it's scarred with spider-webbed cracks. Sometimes on warm summer afternoons, he sits alone here, staring out at the world through the shattered glass. What he sees doesn't always look right, but then there are strange things in the world.

Through Shattered Glass, David B. Silva's first short story collection, takes readers on an imaginative journey through the lives of seventeen ordinary people struggling with extraordinary events in their lives.

The other interesting/verifiable bits of the slushpile. I skipped almost all of the repeats unless they tied into a currently-offered series.

Harriet Smart offers her 1992 Hodder Headline-hardcovered Scottish historical litfic drama free to all via Smashwords: Green Grow the Rushes She offers more of her backlist historicals there for $2.99 a pop if it turns out you like this one.

ISFDBed Ruth Nestvold returns with a 2003 Asimov's SF Magazine-published novella which she says was a finalist for the Tiptree and Sturgeon awards: Looking Through Lace

Kathy Ferguson (ISFDB) and James Grayson (ISFDB) offer an sf novella originally published in Analog Magazine in 2006: Puncher's Chance

Bell Bridge Books-published Alicia Rasley offers an historical romance which was probably published by Zebra as she says it was a RITA Award nominee: Charity Begins at Home (Regency Escapades)

Denise Domning returns with her 2003 Avon-published Regency romance: Almost Perfect

Imajin/n re-publishes Ric Wasley's 2007-Kunati small-pressed suspense/thriller which has a decent Booklist review: Shadow of Innocence (McCarthy Family Mysteries)

Harlequin-published Nina Bruhns offers her latest contemporary romantic suspense: The French Detective's Woman

Fellow MR member author Paul Levine offers another installment in his legal thriller series, this one 1994-William Morrow hardcovered: MORTAL SIN (The Jake Lassiter Series)

Formerly-Dorchester-published-before-they-imploded-from-not-paying-their-authors Gerri Russell returns with her 2010-Dorchester/Leisure historical romance: Seducing the Knight (Brotherhood of the Scottish Templars) and she repeats another in the series: To Tempt A Knight (Brotherhood of the Scottish Templars)

Virna DePaul writes romantic suspense for Berkley and Harlequin. She offers two romances, one a short tie-in to her apparently popular published Psy-Ops series: Linkage for them both

Bell Bridge Books-published Donna Ball offers a suspense/maybe-horror thriller: Sanctuary and a celebrity vs stalker thriller: Exposure She lists Donna Boyd as one of her pennames in her bio and offers a paranormal suspense saga under that: Renegade (Devoncroix Dynasty)

Berkley-published Barbara Bretton offers a romance novella: I Do, I Do . . . Again

Zebra-published Doreen Owens Malek returns with a western romance which she says sold a specified large number of copies when it was first released in 1993 (not linked to paperback and I'm not going to bother to dig): The Harder They Fall

Big-6-paperbacked J. Carson Black returns with a historical western drama/maybe-romance which she originally wrote under the penname Annie McKnight: The Tombstone Rose

Tom Lowe offers his 2009-Minotaur hardcovered: A FALSE DAWN (Sean O'Brien (mystery/Thrillers))

Minor ISFDBed Mark Edward Hall returns with a collection of horror shorts which he says includes some of the published ones: Servants of Darkness

Stephanie Bond who is currently Harlequin-published, offers two romances, one of them 2002-St. Martin's Pressed: Linkage for them both, plus her Harlequin official freebie

Ann Charles who says she's been nominated for some of those Romance Writers of America awards returns with the 2nd in her paranormal mystery/suspense series with a touch of romance, if you picked up the first one when it was included earlier: Optical Delusions in Deadwood (Deadwood Mystery Series #2) She also helpfully repeats the 1st if you missed it: Nearly Departed in Deadwood (Deadwood Mystery Series #1)

Tom Underhill offers some kind of time-travel story which he says was published in a particular issue of Bewildering Stories, which the ISFDB doesn't seem to know about, so I'm guessing it's some sort of minor small-press pulp thing: Time Trick

Minor ISFDBed Derek Clendening offers another horror short: The Business

Maureen Child, who's got an official Harlequin freebie out, offers a contemporary romance novella which she says was originally written under the penname Kathleen Kane: Paper Hearts

Small press erotic romance specialty imprinted Canadian Jade Buchanan returns with an f/m/m menage paranormal erotic romance which she says was originally published as part of an anthology: Aella's Song

Michele Lang repeats a tie-in novella to her currently Tor-published historical fantasy series: The Magic of Fabulous (Lady Lazarus) She offers a guide to the series free to all via Smashwords

Happy reading, if you think you see something you might like.

ETA: Another Robert W. Walker suspense/horror thriller, originally 1988 St. Martin's Pressed: Disembodied

Joyce Yarrow's 2010-Five Star-published globe-trotting PI mystery/thriller: THE LAST MATRYOSHKA

[Synamon]

Only one more of Paul Levine's Jake Lassiter series left to collect. I thought I might as well buy it, instead of being such a freebie freeloader, but it's not available as an ebook.

[Dr. Drib]

David B. Silva is an excellent writer.

I recommend all of his work.




Don

[ATDrake]

Feature still free, updates go here. I mostly skipped the repeats. There are some nice new things, including some continuations of previous series and some historical/litfic.

Much-title-featured Lee Killough returns with a sci-fi mystery crossover novella originally 2006 published by small imprint Yard Dog Press (available via Baen) that's been picked up by Books We Love/BWLPP: Aftershock

Byrne Fone's print credentials include a number of academic small-press books and editing the Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature for Columbia University Press. He offers his own contribution to fictional gay literature with his historical/litfic novel: Achilles: A Love Story ( A Gay Novel of the Trojan War) (The Trojan Trilogy)

Toni Dwiggins who once had a book out from Tor returns to offer another installment of her nifty-sounding mystery/thriller premise: BADWATER (The Forensic Geology Series)

Harper-published Brenda Novak returns with an Age of Sail historical romance originally published under the title "The Bastard": Honor Bound

Avalon small-pressed Mona Ingram returns with an f/m contemporary erotic action/thriller romance which she warns has explicit sexual content: Fool Me Once

Fictionwise-available Canadian Jamieson Wolf returns with another installment of his comedic-looking mystery series set amongst a soap opera cast: Hope Falls Season 3 - Dragons Cove

Anne Frasier/Theresa Weir returns with her 2004 Onyx-published supernatural flavoured cops vs weird killer thriller: Play Dead

Julia Buckley who's had a book out from Llewellyn's Midnight Ink imprint returns with another one of her: Lovely, Dark and Deep (The Madeline Mann Mysteries)

Barbara Bisco does not have a convenient author bio supplied. But she does include quoted praise for her 2009 Black Lotus small-pressed literary fiction/Borneo-set travel adventure novel from a BBC Radio 2 commentator and a London newspaper: A Taste for Green Tangerines Turns out the author bio went with her 2nd, self-pub novel and she says she's got some academic credentials and traveled extensively in the regions she writes about, such as Thailand in another litfic-ish travel adventure/journey of self-discovery novel: Night of the Water Spirits

Raymond McCullough says that among other things, he is the host of the Celtic Roots radio show, which is indeed available as a podcast on iTunes. He offers a St. Patrick's Day-themed collection of assorted Irish culture/history stuff collated from his show: A Wee Taste a' Craic: All the Irish Craic from the popular 'Celtic Roots Radio' shows, 2-25

Ex-Dorchester-published Gerri Russell returns with another one of her medieval historical romances, this one 2008-Leisure: Warrior's Lady (The Stones of Destiny Series)

ISFDBed Jeremy C. Shipp returns with another horror short which may be a repeat, since his blurb line saying that it had an honourable mention in a Year's Best Horror does look kind of familiar: The Sun Never Rises in the Big City

Donna Fasano who's also written as Donna Clayton for Harlequin offers a contemporary romantic comedy: Nanny and the Professor

Tina Gerow, whose Triskelion small-pressed romantic suspense won some kind of Romantic Times award returns with a BWLPP-ed steamy contemporary romance, set in a family business which happens to be a Vegas brothel, whose cover definitely fits the title: Take It Off

Harlequin-published Patricia Watters returns with a contemporary romantic suspense: The Love Boat Conspiracy She's also got an historical romance repeat somewhere in the slushpile if you missed it earlier.

M.J. Rose returns with her 2006 MIRA-published psychiatrist vs serial killer thriller in the same series as the ones she's been offering previously: The Halo Effect (The Butterfield Institute) (may be a repeat, but from long enough ago that I don't have it in the newer auxiliary account)

Much-paperbacked Robert W. Walker returns yet again with an apocalyptic thriller: The Serpentine Fire - Flesh Wars 1

Small Christian-pressed Australian writer Martin Roth returns with a PI mystery/thriller novel which he says was a finalist for the 2011 Australian Christian Book of the Year award: Hot Rock Dreaming (Johnny Ravine Series, Book 2)

Here's another Imajin/n-published book, an ex-government agent vs bomb threat killer thriller which may also be a romantic suspense, by Chris Redding: Blonde Demolition

Minor imprint Deadly Niche Press are offering a few more assorted mystery/thrillers (some may be repeats): Linkage for the lot

Diane Davis White has had a few stories included in anthologies with stuff by Deborah MacGillivray, a pro-published romance writer best known for mobilizing her hordes of fans to harass negative reviewers (you can look up her entries on Fandom W*nk and Dear Author and/or Smart Bitches Trashy Books, IIRC, and the FW entry is certainly very entertaining to read). However, this should not be held against White (unless she's picked up bad habits by association), and she offers a historical interracial British lady/Native American romance : The Silent Love (Love Vine: A Regency Series)

Decadent Publishing Company, LLC returns to offer Rebecca Royce's [TEEN GIRL] the [MONSTER] Slayer paranormal fantasy: Initiation (The Warrior Series)

I include Berkley-published Michele Scott writing as A.K. Alexander's self-pub Mexican drug running historical family saga again to note that she has finally fixed the earlier error which attributed it to yet another author name entirely in the descriptive blurb: The Cartel

Happy reading, if you manage to spot something you think you might like (and the author doesn't send their fans to berate you for putting up an insufficiently stellar review).

[Dr. Drib]

Got a couple.

Thank you.



Don

[GeckoFriend]

Picked up a few; thank you.

[Blue Tyson]

498!

[NightBird]

Tom Lowe offers his 2009-Minotaur hardcovered: A FALSE DAWN (Sean O'Brien (mystery/Thrillers))

Free again.

http://www.amazon.com/FALSE-DAWN-Mys...dp_ob_title_bk