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Thursday, August 17, 2023

SPFBO 9: Third Batch & Semi-finalist Update (reviewed by Chels)

 

Here's a video post on Chels' mini-batch of six books and a semi-finalist update. Enjoy!

Chels books were:

Crucible of Lies by Mitchell Hogan
Curse of the Fallen by H.C. Newell
Red Mage by H.D. Woolf
Volcano City by Grace Bridges



Book review: Barnaby The Wanderer by Raymond St. Elmo

 


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Raymond St. Elmo is a programmer of artificial intelligence and virtual realities, who has no time for literary fabrications of fictitious characters and world-building. And yes, that was meant to be ironic. 

A degree in Spanish Literature gave him a love of Magic Realism. Programming gave him a job. The job introduced him to artificial intelligence and virtual realities; as close to magic as reality is likely to get outside the covers of a book. And yes, that was meant to be cynical.

The author of several first-person comic accounts of strange quests for mysterious manuscripts, mysterious girls in cloaks whose face appears SUDDENLY IN THE FLASH OF LIGHTNING. And yes, that was meant to be dramatic.

Publisher: St. Elmo Literary Labs (July 15, 2023) Page count: 801 pages Formats: ebook, paperback

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Book review: The Shattered Sphere (Sol's Harvest #4) by M.D. Presley

 


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

Series (Sol's Harvest) links: 

THE WOVEN RING - FBC REVIEW
THE IMBUED LOCKBLADE - FBC REVIEW
THE GLASS DAGGER - FBC REVIEW

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Never passing up the opportunity to speak about himself in the third person, M.D. Presley is not nearly as clever as he thinks he is. Born and raised in Texas, he spent several years on the East Coast and now waits for the West Coast to shake him loose. His favorite words include defenestrate, callipygian, and Algonquin. The fact that monosyllabic is such a long word keeps him up at night.

Publisher: M.D. Presley (August 15, 2023) Length: 455 Formats: ebook

Friday, August 11, 2023

Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski (Reviewed by Daniel P. Haeusser)

Book Review: Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski




Order Blood of Elves as part of the new paperback edition Witcher Boxed Set HERE

OFFICIAL AUTHOR INFORMATION: Andrzej Sapkowski was born in 1948 in Poland. He studied economy and business, but the success of his fantasy cycle about the Witcher Geralt of Rivia turned him into a bestselling writer. His work has received Poland’s Janusz A. Zajdel prize five times, as well as Great Britain’s David Gemmell Award for Fantasy, in 2009. In 2016, he received the World Fantasy Award—Life Achievement. The Witcher has been adapted to a successful video-game franchise, and is now a series on Netflix.
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Book Review: The Glass Dagger by M.D. Presley (Sol's Harvest #3)



Book links: AmazonGoodreads

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Never passing up the opportunity to speak about himself in the third person, M.D. Presley is not nearly as clever as he thinks he is. Born and raised in Texas, he spent several years on the East Coast and now waits for the West Coast to shake him loose. His favorite words include defenestrate, callipygian, and Algonquin. The fact that monosyllabic is such a long word keeps him up at night.

Publisher: M.D. Presley (July 13, 2022) Page count: 435 Formats: ebook, paperback

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Interview with David T. List (interviewed by Mihir Wanchoo)

 


Review: Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare

 

Official Author Website
Buy Sword Catcher HERE

OFFICIAL AUTHOR BIO: Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Teheran, Iran and spent much of her childhood travelling the world with her family, including one trek through the Himalayas as a toddler where she spent a month living in her father’s backpack. She lived in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten years old.

Since her family moved around so much she found familiarity in books and went everywhere with a book under her arm. She spent her high school years in Los Angeles where she used to write stories to amuse her classmates, including an epic novel called “The Beautiful Cassandra” based on a Jane Austen short story of the same name (and  which later inspired her current pen name).

After college, Cassie lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked at various entertainment magazines and even some rather suspect tabloids where she reported on Brad and Angelina’s world travels and Britney Spears’ wardrobe malfunctions. She started working on her YA novel, City of Bones, in 2004, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan, her favourite city. She turned to writing fantasy fiction full time in 2006 and hopes never to have to write about Paris Hilton again.

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Book review: Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon ny Wole Talabi

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon ny Wole Talabi review


Book links: Amazon, Goodreads

Friday, August 4, 2023

The Iron Crown by L.L. McRae (reviewed by Matthew Higgins)

 


Order The Iron Crown over HERE

OFFICIAL AUTHOR INFO: My name is Lauren, and I'm a fantasy author of character-driven stories and epic adventure. My books usually contain dragons, bucket-loads of magic, and are typically fun and hopeful.
 
 I live in a tiny village in the English countryside, have a degree in Psychology, and was a professional copywriter before going full-time as an author—swapping corporate copy for magic and dragons!
 
Thursday, August 3, 2023

The Apples of Idunn: (Gods of the Ragnarok Era #1) by Matt Larkin (reviewed by Matthew Higgins)

 

Order The Apples Of Idunn over HERE
 
OFFICIAL AUTHOR INFO: As a child, Matt read The Lord of the Rings with his parents. This sparked a lifelong obsession with fantasy and started him on a path of discovering the roots of fantasy through mythology. In exploration of these ideas, the Eschaton Cycle was born—a universe of dark fantasy where all myths and legends play out.

Matt writes retellings of mythology as dark, gritty fantasy. His passions of myths, philosophy, and history inform his series. He strives to combine gut-wrenching action with thought-provoking ideas and culturally resonant stories.

Along with his wife and daughter, Matt lives as a digital nomad, traveling the world while researching for his novels. He read approximately a bazillion books a year, loves video games, and relaxes by binge watching Netflix with his wife.
 

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