Rey S. Morfin Rey Morfin is a sci-fi and fantasy author who lives and works in London, UK. As a kid, he was fascinated by the strange and the unexplained, and so it makes perfect sense that his books often contain speculative, paranormal, or science fiction elements. He writes the ongoing space opera PI series Read More
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#Indieaugust Author Spotlight: S C Gowland
S C Gowland This is a difficult one. What to tell you and what might be of interest? I could talk about all the real life stuff; work, life, mortgage etc but – seeing as you’re here – the stuff that’s probably of most interest to you is writer stuff; how I do it, why Read More
#Indieaugust Author Spotlight: Rachel Rener
Rachel Rener Rachel Rener is the author of THE LIGHTNING CONJURER Series, a critically-acclaimed contemporary fantasy with elements of magical realism and romance. Her most recent release, THE GIRL WHO TALKS TO ASHES, remains at the top of Amazon’s bestsellers list. She graduated from the University of Colorado after focusing on Psychology and Neuroscience. Since Read More
#Indieaugust Author Spotlight: Derek Nelsen
Derek Nelsen Derek Nelsen was born in New Jersey and raised in North Carolina. A second generation Norwegian American, his grandparents emigrated to the US, settling in Norwegian neighborhoods in New York. Within a generation these wonderful people left NY to find a better life for their families in the country. New Jersey, the Garden Read More
#Indieaugust Author Spotlight: Caedis Knight
Caedis Knight Caedis Knight is the pen name of two established fantasy authors Jacqueline Silvester and N J Simmonds. Jacqueline and Natali met at London’s Young Adult Literary convention in 2017. Jacky had just launched the first book of her Wunderkids series, and Natali was there with The Path Keeper, the first book in her Read More
#Indieaugust Author Spotlight: G.V. Pearce
G.V. Pearce G.V. Pearce is a mysterious being said to haunt the North York Moors, but is otherwise as yet unclassified by science. Rumour has it that they can be summoned by leaving coffee in a faery circle at midnight. G.V.’s books with Improbable Press include their Sherlockian mystery Ghost Story and Strangest Day So Read More
BBNYA 2021 – Semi-finalists
Round two of BBNYA is currently underway. The panellists are reading nine or more 10k word excerpts from the books, and scoring them. We’ve still got some time but we’re cooking up some exciting things for the authors in the meantime. But the authors aren’t just playing the waiting game! EG Radcliff had organised a Read More
BBNYA 2021: Round One
Another year, another Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award. The signups closed a few months ago and the panellists received the excerpts for the first round a few weeks ago. June 14th is our deadline to send in our feedback. Like the previous year, we were given a long (loooong) list of all the Read More
#Indieapril Author Spotlight and Book Tour: Graham Austin-King
The Lore of Prometheus by Graham Austin-King won first place in the BBNYA competition. Many of my fellow panelists loved this book, and even beyond the panel, fantasy fans are loving his books. Check out the 2020 BBNYA winner! Graham Austin-King Graham Austin-King was born in the south of England and weaned on broken swords Read More
#Indieapril Author Spotlight: Blake Arthur Peel
Blake Arthur Peel was one of the finalists of BBNYA 2020 with his book Ranger’s Oath, the first book in his Fall of Radiance series. Many of my fellow panelists loved this book and it ended up in the fifth place, which isn’t bad. The scores for all of the finalists were incredibly close. If Read More