The 300 books that were submitted for SPFBO 9 are here and I decided to comb through the list and share the books that I am intrigued by most. You'll notice a lot of cozy fantasy, fantasy romance, and lighter fantasy on my personal list, but there are books for all types of fantasy series, [...]
I thought it would be fun to rank these books in two different ways- one based on the scores that were calculated using Cassidy's rubric and another based purely on my enjoyment. Watch me break down my thoughts on all of these books in my newest YouTube video! https://youtu.be/Ns-shdizOpo My Predictions Miss Percy's Pocket Guide [...]
I have read four of the ten SPFBO finalists and I wanted to take a moment to talk about them! If you have no idea what SPFBO is, check out this post. In short, it is an annual literary contest intended to bring greater visibility to self-published English-language fantasy authors. https://youtu.be/Dx1GXp_JGmw I am reading all of the finalists along with 9 [...]
https://youtu.be/oo-JKQc_d2E What is SPFBO? The Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO) is an annual literary contest intended to bring greater visibility to self-published English-language fantasy authors. The SPFBO has been operated since 2015 by the author Mark Lawrence. He distributes about 300 novels submitted by the authors to ten fantasy bloggers to review. Each blogger selects a finalist, which is then reviewed by all ten bloggers. The winner [...]
