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Well, it seems that eReader IQ is down [back up after I finished composing this
![]() Today's feature is something completely different from someone whom frankly, I've never read or heard anything by him (although I have seen his name on titles in the bookstore which is where I vaguely remember it from). But he's got a pretty extensive Wikipedia entry which makes him seem a lot more prominent than I thought he'd be. Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You: A good beer joint is hard to find and other facts of life by Lewis Grizzard, is a collection of the late humourist and stand-up comedian's columns from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper. Apparently, he was kind of a jerk regarding several issues, but he seems to have been reasonably important in US humour circles and fairly popular, so here's his first-ever published book, originally printed by one Peachtree Pub in 1979 and multiply reprinted over the years by Warner Books. Free for who knows how long (this is its 2nd day, since I spotted too late last evening to put in the updates) and who knows what DRM @ Amazon main UK DE ES FR IT Description New York Times bestselling author and humorist Lewis Grizzard, self-proclaimed "true son of the red clay whose granddaddy once owned the egg-suckingest dog in Coweta County," leads us on a warm, sensitive, and very funny journey through the soul of his beloved South in his first published book, Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You. This was Grizzard's first published book and returns to print in eBook format after being out of print for more than 25 years. The rest of what showed up in the preliminary slushpile and what I was able to check later at eReader IQ before it went down. Not sorted, but we've got some nice-looking award-nominee litfic in the lot, for those who like nice-looking award-nominee litfic and a promising collection of previously-published sf shorts. Dorchester/Leisure-published Steven Torres returns with a collection of shorts: Killing Ways 2: Urban Stories Minor ISFDBed Derek Clendening offers another short: The Employer Valerie Douglas who writes as V.J. Devereaux for Ellora's Cave returns with an Egyptian archaeological paranormal artifact adventure which may also be a romance: Heart of the Gods (Servant of the Gods) Gary Ponzo says he is a 2-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize for stories that have appeared in various publications (no print credentials listed, and the Pushcart people don't list past nominees on their site) and offers a mini-collection of thrillers: The Last Mountain Gorilla (Short Story with 2 Bonus Stories) Berkley & Harlequin-published Patricia Kay offers a a contemporary romance which she says was "first offered to readers in 1993 in a limited edition distributed to mail order subscribers": For Services Rendered Noble & Ravenous Romance-published fellow MR member author Keta Diablo returns with another in her series of m/m romantic suspenses which look to have supernatural elements and erotic content as well: Crossroads - Shadowland UK writer John Noone says that his 1960s-set literary/military psychological suspense thriller novel originally published by Hamish Hamilton in 1966 and picked up by Grove Press in 1967 was "joint winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1967": THE MAN WITH THE CHOCOLATE EGG I don't know why authors put their titles in all caps in the listings. Do they think that shouting will help them rise up above the rest? Another Robert W. Walker thriller for your collection of such: Werewolf's Grief (Bloodscreams #2) Zebra-published Doreen Owens Malek returns with a contemporary romantic suspense: Fair Game Lewis Perdue offers 2005-Forge hardcovered military supersoldier/medical conspiracy thriller which he says is loosely based on the notion of secret government experiments being responsible for Gulf War Syndrome: Perfect Killer Pocket & Oxford University Press-published Tim Vicary offers another in his series of UK legal thrillers: A Fatal Verdict (The Trials of Sarah Newby) Simon & Schuster-published western writer Jory Sherman (who is apparently a Pulitzer nominee, according to his author bio page on their website) offers another collection of short stories, this one looking somewhat literary in nature: The Sadness of Autumn: Tales of the Ozarks His other collection from yesterday is also still free : Little Journeys: Collected Stories You know what, this inevitable mashup of "Your average Regency Romance....with Zombies!!" sounds kind of fun, so: Duke of the Un-Dead (Un-Dead Series) if you like self-pub titles which are "action packed with hard core zombie slaying action and of course, the perfect blend of romance." Happy reading, if indeed you manage to spot something you think you might like, or you find that Grizzard's brand of humour holds up well enough after all this time. The additions from previously-included authors whom I'm not going to bother trying to recall who's been publishing them, but they have been previously published, so: Sharon Ihle returns with another one of her popular western historical romances: DAKOTA DREAM Dawn DeAnna Wilson returns with a YA novel: Saint Jude ISFDBed Ruth Nestvold offers a collection of near future dystopian short stories which she says includes some that originally appeared in Asimov's Magazine and were reprinted in Rich Horton's Year's Best Science Fiction: The Future, Imperfect: Short Stories Curt Wheeden and Richard Marek's quirky comedy-mystery was originally out from Oceanview Publishing in 2010: Book of Nathan Books We Love/BWLPP have added some more titles to their selection of freebies, including a new romance by Bantam-published YA and Avalon-published romance author Sydell Voeller: Linkage for the first version of their imprint and linkage for the 2nd From a Canadian perspective, the Africana Homestead Legacy Publishing people who do literary fiction from established African national authors have added a 7th book (only 6 available to us yesterday): Linkage for the lot of their stuff which is all still free Martha Marks is a Ph.D in literature and linguistics who credits exposure to and teaching of literary classics to improving her notions of good writing. She's also written a bunch of McGraw-Hill language learning texts and has some involvement with developing a PBS programme. Here's her promising-looking self-pub historical murder mystery set in ancient Rome with a female sleuth, which has surprisingly nice formatting for an indie (would not discredit a Big 6 imprint, either) and which I think I'll be adding to my main account as well: Rubies of the Viper |
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I read Kathy Sue Loudermilk back in the 80s and really enjoyed it. Enough to pick up some more paperbacks by Lewis Grizzard. Some of his opinions rankled me, but that alone doesn't mean much.
I'm sorry it's Amazon only, but a few of his books are available elsewhere. |
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Either I'm not very fussy today, or there was good stuff in there, I snagged a handful.
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Lewis Grizzard books
ATDrake ... it's free through Saturday. We're working to bring a lot of his award-winning writing back into eBook "print" after being dead for 18 years. It's funny stuff -- and if you didn't get offended by Grizzard, you were probably a typewriter.
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I'm sure Grizzard's fans will be happy to hear that, especially if one day they also become available in more formats at other stores as well. |
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Got 2 or 3.
Thank you. Don |
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I remember enjoying Grizzard back in the day...enough to pick this one up for free. Thanks!
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Updates here, since the feature is still free through the rest of the day.
Minor ISFDBed Glen R. Krisch, who has two anthologized small press stories listed and says he has worked as an editor upon Tim Lebbon's books, among others, returns to offer: Twice as Dark: Two Novels of Horror Joel Gross offers his fictionalized biographical novel about the famous actress, originally 1987-William Morrow hardcovered: SARAH: A NOVEL OF SARAH BERNHARDT Phillippa/Pip Ballantine who writes steampunk novels for HarperCollins offers a literary short story involving time travel: The Straw Garden Also out from the ImagineThat! Studios imprint behind the Ballantine story, a "horror erotica" from Jonathan Carter which also involves time travel: Final Cut Rebecca Ammon runs some sort of sex-positive blog for alternative lifestyles and says she also writes a syndicated column of some sort. She offers a multi-author anthology of literary erotica which she has edited: Lyrotica - An Anthology of Erotic Poetry and Prose Roy C. Booth (ISFDB) and R. Thomas Riley (ISFDB), both of whom have minor small-pressed shorts, team up to offer some kind of horror-ish AU weird western with fallen angels and gunslingers: The Flesh of Fallen Angels (Gibson Blount) Pam Uphoff, if she's the same as the Pamela Uphoff listed in the ISFDB for an essay in an issue of Jim Baen's Universe offers some kind of genetic engineering gone wrong superhuman thriller which has what looks like a dinosaur hatching from the moon on its cover: Outcasts and Gods (Wine of the Gods) J.M. Snyder who was once feature-freebied by retailer Rainbow eBooks offers an m/m romance involving cross-dressing: A Cowboy's Heart Ellora's Cave-published Anh Leod offers an f/m erotic romance steampunk novella: Clockwork Captive Richard Mason who used to write columns of some sort for the newsletter of an Arizona wildlife federation returns with an omnibus edition of his historical coming-of-age stories based upon his own childhood growing up in the US South in the 40s and 50s: Lyin' Like a Dog, The Yankee Doctor, The Danged Swamp! 3-Volume set Sex educator and feminist media personality Susie Bright, whose Wikipedia entry you can look up yourself this time, returns with a memoir for which the blurb lists specific praise from Vanity Fair, Psychology Today, Chicago Sun-Times, and many more: Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir Maria Hudgins returns with another in her series of cozy mysteries, originally out from Five Star in 2010: Death on the Aegean Queen (Dotsy Lamb Travel Mysteries) ISFDBed Doctor Who tie-in novel writer Paul Finch returns with the 2nd volume of his shorts: Medi-Evil 2 (A collection of historical terror and fantasy) UK writer Valerie Laws says she has appeared on BBC2 and is some sort of multimedia artist and poet (she does have at least one poetry collection small-pressed, from the looks of it). She says that the following novel of hers was "Winner of a Northern Writer’s Award, shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize": The Rotting Spot (A Bruce and Bennett Mystery) The rather mythologically-named Paris Alexander, out from the same Wharekohu Bay imprint that's been republishing Kate Silver's Zebra romances, has another f/m erotic historical romance short if you liked the last one: The Duchess and her Stableboy (Stolen Moments) Stephen Kubiak says that his quirky action/adventure was "Winner of the 2009 Florida State University Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Creative Writing" so if you're into trying out promising-looking indies, you may want to give a try to: Pistolero y Pollo Speaking of promising-looking indies, Abigail Keam's self-pub-looking (though she does claim to have won a specified "Gold Medal Award", whatever that is) cozy mystery with a beekeeper as the amateur sleuth sounds unusual enough to pick up: Death By A HoneyBee (A Josiah Reynolds Mystery) Barbara Ivie Green only claims long-running artistic illustration experience, but her Victorian Egyptian archaeological adventure with some romance in it does look mostly Relevant To My Interests, so: Treasure of Egypt (Treasure of the Ancients) The following small-press imprints (some with decent backlist and literary fiction titles) have a mix of new and repeat books across various genres (some authors previously included as credentialed): Coffeetown Press, Camel Press, Books We Love/BWLPP A man once thought to put into verse Covering books from 4th through to 1st A classic of King Arthur's time His new version here you will find If to lim'ricks you are not adverse : Le Morte d'Arthur, an Epic Limerick, Vol I Don't forget to pick up the speculative fiction anthology Intergalactic Medicine Show Awards, helpfully pointed out by fellow MR member scottken in this thread here, which includes stories by Peter Beagle, Hugo-nominated Eugie Foster and Aliette deBodard, Nebula winner Eric James Stone, and many more. |
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