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S. Kaeth Dec 26, 2023

If you want only #SPFBO9 books, there's a list of those books in this sale here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/18r94ge/comment/kezlmhx/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

And if you specifically want books available wide, there's a list here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/18r94ge/comment/kezm244/?context=3

And if you're curious, last year, the sale had 450 books and almost 175 authors.

EASchechter Oct 5, 2023

Well, I'm out. Fantastic review and a cut for Written in Water. #SPFBO9

Thank you to the Before We Go Blog!

http://beforewegoblog.com/spfbo9-written-in-water-by-elizabeth-schechter/?amp=1

Susan Maxwell @ BdR Sep 9, 2023

"Have you ever wanted to visit the worlds and characters of your favorite books? Well, come and walk into our beautiful vast library and let us get you stuck in the pages!"
Who could refuse such an invitation? Thanks to @queensbookasylum, who were designated as judge, jury (and, as it turned out, executioner) for my #SPFBO9 entry 'And the Wildness', I had the chance to insert myself into 'The Woman In White' by #WilkieCollins. See how I fared...
#books #writing #reading
https://queensbookasylum.com/2023/09/06/stuck-in-the-pages-susan-maxwell/

Stuck In The Pages - Susan Maxwell - Queen's Book Asylum

Susan Maxwell, author of And the Wildness, for her SPFBO 9 spotlight chose to be Stuck in the Pages of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Let's see how that turned out to be!

Queen's Book Asylum

Joanna Maciejewska Jul 18, 2023

Looking for some new fantasy books to read? Want to check out participants of the 9th Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off? Here's 82 of them, from urban fantasy to grimdark, and anything in-between. (All standalones or first in series too!)

https://books.bookfunnel.com/spfbo9collectthemall/kb0nmxsp8w

#SPBFO #SPFBO9

SPFBO9 - Collect Them All!

Searching for the best new indie fantasy? Look no further! The Self Published Fantasy Blog Off is the annual indie fantasy competition, now in its ninth year. 300 books, 10 bloggers, 1 winner.Support indie fantasy and check out this select list of some of the entries to this years competition!

Susan Maxwell @ BdR Jul 14, 2023

The Salmon of Knowledge👇, whose myth is repurposed in my #SPFBO9 entry 'And The Wildness' (available in digital and p/b format https://books2read.com/AndTheWildness).
The ebook, unlike the Salmon itself, is currently reduced by 50% at #Smashwords Summer/Winter sale. A bargain! #SWSale2023

Available now at your favorite digital store!

And the Wildness by Susan Maxwell

MH Thaung Jul 9, 2023

Looking for a #fantasy read? Why not check out some of these entries to #SPFBO9 - the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off? A huge range of quality self-published books, from epic to urban to comedy. See if you can spot mine 😉

https://books.bookfunnel.com/spfbo9collectthemall/4zsewvr3et #SelfPromo

SPFBO9 - Collect Them All!

Searching for the best new indie fantasy? Look no further! The Self Published Fantasy Blog Off is the annual indie fantasy competition, now in its ninth year. 300 books, 10 bloggers, 1 winner.Support indie fantasy and check out this select list of some of the entries to this years competition!

Susan Maxwell @ BdR Jul 2, 2023

[Apologies if you're seeing this for the second time - I seem to have managed to put a 🔒 on posts by accident so I'm worried that they are invisible🙄 ]
Get 50% off my books during the #Smashwords July Sale! Both 'And the Wildness' (#SPFBO9 entry) and 'Fluctuation in Disorder' (short stories) are available at a discount, along with many other books by #IndieAuthors #SWSale2023
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/SusanMaxwell

Susan Maxwell

Susan Maxwell is an independent author and scholar who has had short stories and poetry published in magazines and anthologies; has published a short story collection (Fluctuation in Disorder) independently; has had one novel (Good Red Herring) published by Little Island Books, and a further three (Hollowmen, And the Wildness, and A Wild Goose Hunt) published independently; has served on fiction and non-fiction juries for the British Fantasy Awards; has a PhD in Archival Science and writes on themes related to archives and fiction; reviews regularly for Inis (the magazine of Children’s Books Ireland); is influenced most by speculative and modernist fiction, being particularly fond of Flann O'Brien, Calvino, Beckett, and Woolf. When not writing, or painting, or being an archivist, the author can be found in the vegetable patch, listening to music, reading books, watching old detective series, or catching up on sleep.

Smashwords

MH Thaung Jul 2, 2023

Here's your weekly reminder you can check out a bunch of #SPFBO9 fantasy novel contestants at https://books.bookfunnel.com/spfbo9collectthemall/4zsewvr3et

Stories range from grimdark to steampunk, including my very own The Diamond Device. Enjoy! #AmReading

SPFBO9 - Collect Them All!

Searching for the best new indie fantasy? Look no further! The Self Published Fantasy Blog Off is the annual indie fantasy competition, now in its ninth year. 300 books, 10 bloggers, 1 winner.Support indie fantasy and check out this select list of some of the entries to this years competition!

MH Thaung Jun 24, 2023

My review of The Crossing by Laurie Janey

https://www.librarything.com/work/30471137/reviews/242929964 #BookReview #Bookstodon

A nicely presented and refreshlingly different contender in #SPFBO9

MHThaung's review of The Crossing by Laurie Janey

"The Crossing popped up on my radar as an entry to this year’s Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off contest (SPFBO9). The blurb suggested an intriguingly different experience to most fantasy fare, and I held that impression all the way through. The writing was tidy. I didn’t find obtrusive typos. That said, there was a fondness for complex sentences, and I occasionally twitched at the sheer number of participial phrases and absolutes. The setting feels solarpunk, or at least solarpunk-adjacent. I’m not a visual reader and sometimes lost concentration with all the descriptive details. Infrastructure appears environmentally conscious with maybe a touch of complacency about it. There’s a frisson of uneasiness as to just what this “marrowcore” is that seems to power the world so beneficially and simultaneously has effects like a drug. There are quite a few characters, and it took me a while to get comfortable with all the names. They mostly gave me YA vibes, especially Berro with his quest for approval and validation. We have several viewpoint characters, mainly students of various sorts, some more naive and trusting than others. I enjoyed seeing the fallout where their beliefs and values clashed. There was a fair amount of what I tag “internal emotional processing” played out on page, which strengthened my YA impression. Additionally, the storyline was quite “direct” with relatively little sense of other (non-plot relevant) events in the wider world, which I also tend to associate with YA stories. If I were forced to pick (and fortunately i’m not), I’d probably tag this as soft SF rather than fantasy in how the speculative elements are presented and handled. (But thankfully, none of info-dumpy crunchy explanations that make my eyes glaze over). Overall, a nicely presented and refreshingly different read."

LibraryThing.com

MH Thaung Jun 13, 2023

Looking for a #fantasy read? Why not check out some of these #SPFBO9 entrants? Everything from grimdark to comedy https://books.bookfunnel.com/spfbo9collectthemall/4zsewvr3et 😁

SPFBO9 - Collect Them All!

Searching for the best new indie fantasy? Look no further! The Self Published Fantasy Blog Off is the annual indie fantasy competition, now in its ninth year. 300 books, 10 bloggers, 1 winner.Support indie fantasy and check out this select list of some of the entries to this years competition!