Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #4: The Fall of the First Five
Geoff Matthews
* Disclaimer * Writing and reading are subjective arts. What some folks will absolutely love, others will dislike. It is a bit like Marmite in the UK – normal people…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO)
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #4: Cover Competition
As ever, with the SPFBO, well, for the past two or three years, there is, at the start, a little cover competition. (And clearly a few overactive commas!) This year,…
4th Annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off – An Introduction
Hello, to all the followers of the SPFBO – Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off – the competition which began with an idle thought in the shadowed recesses of Mark Lawrence’s mind…
Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe – SPFBO Review
Five years ago, Corin Cadence’s brother entered the Serpent Spire—a colossal tower with ever-shifting rooms, traps, and monsters. Those who survive the spire’s trials return home with an attunement: a…
The Way Into Chaos by Harry Connolly – SPFBO Review
The city of Peradain is the heart of an empire built with steel, spears, and a monopoly on magic. Until, in a single day, it falls, overthrown by a swarm…
The War of Undoing by Alex Perry – SPFBO Review
“My name is Tay Raining, and this is my brother Ellstone. I wonder if you’ve heard of us . . . I have a birthmark shaped like a question mark…
Pilgrimage to Skara & Devil’s Night Dawning – Double SPFBO Reviews
Julia Kitvaria Sarene
Pilgrimage to Skara by Jonathan Pembroke Self-Published – July 28, 2016 Fantasy Ebook 3.5/10 stars It has been nearly two decades since Pell Wendt abandoned the power and prestige of…
Fixer by James Jakins – SPFBO Review
Jack Bloodfist fixes things. That’s what his card says, anyway. When the orcs and goblins of Summervale, Virginia need something done they call Jack. He’s the one who convinces the…
The Crimson Queen by Alec Hutson – SPFBO Review
Long ago the world fell into twilight, when the great empires of old consumed each other in sorcerous cataclysms. In the south the Star Towers fell, swallowed by the sea,…
Where Loyalties Lie by Rob J. Hayes – SPFBO Review
For some reason, the archetypal pirate accent from Hollywood movies always comes out of my mouth (and pen) as a farmer from deepest Wiltshire or Somerset… it doesn’t have quite…
Sigil Independent – Announcement & Freebies!
M. D. Presley
Fantasy-Faction is happy to host the announcement of a new self-publishers’ guild with aims to help self-pub authors with things most often reserved for those who are traditional published. Sigil…
Tiger Lily by K. Bird Lincoln – SPFBO Review
Lily isn’t supposed to hunt game in the Daimyo’s woods. She’s just the cook’s daughter. It isn’t her place to talk to nobility. And she definitely isn’t supposed to sing…