![]() ![]() ![]() That’s one of the beauties of the SPFBO – it sorts the finest wheat from the towering heaps of chaff. There are many excellent self-published fantasy novels out there, but due in part to the lack of gatekeeping in the self-pub world, there are even more which, to put it kindly, should have received more attention in the editing phase of their creation. My book is well edited, thoroughly proofed, has a professional cover, and had already received good reviews from the bloggers I’d convinced to give it a chance. I did not enter expecting to be a finalist, though I thought that was in the realm of remote possibility. (This year it was Rob Hayes’ excellent piratical yarn Where Loyalties Lie.) Then the bloggers read each of the other finalists, arriving at last at a single winner. (Yes, it’s a huge commitment on the bloggers’ part, and the contest takes many months to complete.)Įach blogger eventually chooses their favorite, which results in ten finalists. Three hundred books are accepted into the contest, and each of ten bloggers reads thirty novels. The SPFBO is a contest wherein self-published fantasy authors submit their books for review to one of ten volunteer bloggers. (If you know what that is, skip the next two paragraphs.) ![]() It was with high hopes that I entered my fantasy novel, The Ventifact Colossus, into Mark Lawrence’s 2017 Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off. ![]()
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