This week, in the company of fellow authors in search of new readers, I’m bringing you two ways to load up on Fantasy novels for free. Both collections are large enough so everyone should be able to find what suits your fancy.
A new year is bringing a new format to my “weekly post” for my website subscribers. Now in the email, you’ll see each topic as a separate post instead of clustered in one post. You may click from the email into each post of interest. Or you can click into the first post and then at the bottom of that post, you’ll see the next three, and you can carry on as you wish. My intention is that this is as easy and enjoyable as before. The separation increases the searchability of each post to a wider audience—hence the change.
Beth Cato delivers page-turning fantasy adventure in the first two of her Blood of Earth series, Breath of Earth and Call of Fire. Ingrid, Breath of Earth’s hero reveals magical geomancy skills that can tip the balance of the world, politically and physically, and that makes for an exciting plot and fast-paced action, but Cato gives her reader even more. She’s built an alternative history (set in 1906) that flips the prism through which we understand our society.
My roundup of history and archaeology: 6 Sci-fi/fantasy writers on what these genres offer to a world gone mad, the tale of an Iraqi archaeological site including griffins, evidence of human sacrifice in Greece, Netflix and the BBC’s series on the Trojan War, and Archaeology Magazine’s top 10 discoveries of 2017
Here’s my weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed: Aliette de Bodard on embracing mythic traditions from across the world, a medieval Jewish cemetery resurfaces in Rome, Scott Lynch on why pirates come Black, female and middle-aged, speaking of border walls brings Hadrian’s to mind, laugh with Tinney Heath about speaking a foreign language on the language’s home turf
I have a guest post on Heroines of Fantasy about Briseis and finding voice. Briseis is right at home on this blog among the strong women and tales of adventure, magic, betrayal and war.
Interview with Judith Starkston about Hand of Fire on the UTube Channel, Fantasy Fiction Focus
Travel news from RT Booklovers in New Orleans and a thrilling moment for me as an author.
