Sorry to say, the #SPFBOXI cuts resume this morning! Today we say goodbye to Simon Steele's Wolfblight: beforewegoblog.com/spfboxi-revi... #SPFBO #SPFBOReviews @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social

Our second #SPFBOXI cut of the day is live! This time it's one from my own pile, Justin Greer's The Servant: beforewegoblog.com/spfboxi-revi... If you love Good vs. Evil type fantasy and The Wheel of Time, this one may be worth a look! #SPFBO #SPFBOReviews @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social

Our third #SPFBOXI cut of the day! Catherine and I review L. Lyons's The Black Bane, which I read in basically one sitting: beforewegoblog.com/spfboxi-revi... #SPFBO #SPFBOReviews @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social

A hard day of cuts! Here's our fourth #SPFBOXI cut--Edward Nile's Godless! Noel really enjoyed this one. The cover is also one of my favourites in the contest, not just our batch: beforewegoblog.com/spfboxi-revi... #SPFBO #SPFBOReviews @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social

Something new (at long last) from the excellent Daniel Polansky - sent to me by @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social! The Soft Touch.

Reviews don't have to be epic works of critique - this sort of thing will make any author's day.

Yep. This. For some of my fave reads I wait and try for days, weeks, to somehow find the words to express how much I loved it, and it's so hard. Lately, I've been just putting down one or two honest sentences about how much fun/heartbreak I had while reading. It's enough. It's perfect, even.

Reviews don't have to be epic works of critique - this sort of thing will make any author's day.

Over on inst@ the Locked Library are giving away two signed copies of their edition!

Over on inst@ the Locked Library are giving away two signed copies of their edition!

I'm excited to announce Ben Moxon's The Redstone Rescue as BWGB's next #SPFBOXI semi-finalist! You can learn more about his secondary world fantasy mystery here: beforewegoblog.com/spfboxi-revi... Congrats, Ben! #SPFBO #SPFBOReviews @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social #booksky

Something new (at long last) from the excellent Daniel Polansky - sent to me by @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social! The Soft Touch.

A totally real email I got from Margaret Atwood yesterday! So excited 😀

What a difference a sale makes - #16 in all of Kindle - maybe it went higher but this is the first time I've remembered to look 😃 And it's SO ROMANTIC!!

Signed books in @Waterstones Brighton and Bristol town centres recently - should still be some on the shelves.

📬 It’s been quite a while since I read 📗 in @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social ”The Library Trilogy” 👇 but I’ve finally got my mittens on 📘 “The Book That Held Her Heart” in today’s #BookHaul which completes my set. 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #MayBookHaul 📦

Signed books in @Waterstones Brighton and Bristol town centres recently - should still be some on the shelves.

Before We Go Blog's final cut of the week, reviewed by Noel and Catherine!: beforewegoblog.com/spfbo-review... Our judges had a lot of positive things to say about this one! #SPFBOXI #SPFBO #SPFBOReviews #Booksky @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social

It's in your head now... ...do it 😀

It's in your head now... ...do it 😀

And here's the fourth of Before We Go Blog's #SPFBOXI cuts for the week! Noel and Catherine review T. L. Bellia's Beneath the Ashen Sky: beforewegoblog.com/spfboxi-revi... #SPFBO #SPFBOReview @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social One more cut to come.

More blood for the blood god! Here's Before We Go Blog's spotlight on Sydney Faith's Revenge of the Druid Queen: beforewegoblog.com/spfboxi-revi... #SPFBOXI #SPFBO #SPFBOReviews @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social

It's unfortunately time to say goodbye to another #SPFBOXI book! This morning, we're highlighting V. Ananya's The Young Foreigner, beforewegoblog.com/spfboxi-revi... I'll spread out our posts throughout the day, so this is the first of 5! #SPFBO #SPFBOReviews @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social

Fancy edges go way back - this book's from the 1700s.

I reviewed Blacktail by Scott Hawkins. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Fancy edges go way back - this book's from the 1700s.

I reviewed Blacktail by Scott Hawkins. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Even Kindness Terra's sword isn't this big! 😮

And without further ado, a much happier #SPFBOXI post--Team Before We Go Blog's first semi-finalist! Congratulations to Y. R. Liu! Go read her wonderful book. beforewegoblog.com/spfboxi-revi... #SPFBO #SPFBOReviews @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social

Even Kindness Terra's sword isn't this big! 😮

The last of BWGB's #SPFBOXI cuts for the week! On Friday, we'll announce a semi-finalist! I review Benjamin Keck's The Pits of Itar, which defied so many of my expectations and with which I had a lot of fun. beforewegoblog.com/spfboxi-revi... #SPFBOX #SPFBOReviews @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social

Here's BWGB's latest #SPFBOXI cut for the week, reviewed by Noel Cober! This one's a bit like a gender-flipped Henry the VIII & reimagines a Tudoresque setting in which women hold the reins of power beforewegoblog.com/spfboxi-revi... #SPFBO #SPFBOREVIEWS @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social

More than half the books in the #SPFBO contest have been eliminated!

More than half the books in the #SPFBO contest have been eliminated!

Always leave them wa

What a difference a sale makes - #16 in all of Kindle - maybe it went higher but this is the first time I've remembered to look 😃 And it's SO ROMANTIC!!

Always leave them wa

Lair Book Unboxing! Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence-Special Edition by @The Broken Binding publisher @Penguin Random House @AceBooks #booksky #blacksky #unboxing #specialeditionbooks #blerd #staynerdy

UK #DEAL ALERT! One clickers unite because THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social is on #sale on #Kindle UK until the end of the day! amzn.to/3PaGvaF #TheBookThatHeldHerHeart #TheLibraryTrilogy #ad #amazonuk

It's a good day when I go searching for something new to read and discover one of my favorite authors just came out with a new book. I don't know how @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social churns them out at the pace he does, or how he keeps getting better, but I'm here for it.

The third version of Daughter of Crows is here, and TBB did its thing to max effect. @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social #daughterofcrows #marklawrence #thebrokenbinding

DUST OF THE DEAD - Available for preorder! "...a wonderfully inventive tale with bags of imagination scattered in all directions..." --Mark Lawrence, author of DAUGHTER OF CROWS www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHT3P575

TBTHHH is the Kindle daily deal - deal with it!

Today our judges say goodbye to our second five books in this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off ( #SPFBO )! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/spfbo-1... #booksky 💙🪐📚 Background image by Anna Zakharova. (cc: @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social @kitvaria.bsky.social)

TBTHHH is the Kindle daily deal - deal with it!

Daughter of Crows makes it onto page 4 of my Goodreads author dashboard!

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