Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off 9 Author Interviews and Book Spotlights on Enthralled By Love (Raina Nightingale's Paths of Fantasy)

SPFBO 9 Author Spotlight: Steve D Wall with THE WAY OF RENEGADES

Hello! As a three-times SPFBO entrant, I'm doing spotlights on the blog for other Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off authors and books! Come, have fun, and catch up if you haven't been here already. This is the 11nth book to feature this year, so I just thought was a cool number. 1st of the 2nd 10. lol. …

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Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off 9 Author Interviews and Book Spotlights on Enthralled By Love (Raina Nightingale's Paths of Fantasy)

SPFBO 9 Author Interview: Helen Rygh-Pederson with THE BRIAR CROWN

Hello! This time, I'm featuring Helen Rygh-Pederson, who was on here last year for an SPFBO 8 Spotlight with Waking Ursa Minor. Helen is back again in this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off with a novel featuring plant magic: The Briar Crown They say love conquers all… but can the conquered ever love the conqueror? Twenty-five …

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Always a Shard of Light: Author Interview and Book Spotlight with Jenelle L. Schmidt (Noblebright Spotlight)

It's been a while ... but that doesn't mean the noblebright spotlights are gone for good, and here's another one! (They're like the rare plant growing here and there, that you come across at random intervals, lol). Jenelle resides in a wintry tundra that she maintains is almost as good as Narnia - having opened …

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Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off 9 Author Interviews and Book Spotlights on Enthralled By Love (Raina Nightingale's Paths of Fantasy)

SPFBO 9 Author Interview: Daniel Maidman with THE EXILE OF ZANZIBAR

Hello! As a three-time SPFBO contestant, I'm doing interviews and spotlights with fellow entrants in the 9nth annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off. Today, we have author and artist, Daniel Maidman, with us, and his SPFBO9 entry ... The Exile of Zanzibar Claire built a device to fold space and time. It had a flaw... When the …

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Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off 9 Author Interviews and Book Spotlights on Enthralled By Love (Raina Nightingale's Paths of Fantasy)

SPFBO 9 Author Interview: B.N. Reele with VANISHING INK

Hi! It's half-way through June, the first month of the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off. Today, I'm featuring Vanishing Ink, a not-super-long fantasy, by my fellow SPFBO 9 author, B.N. Reele, a lover of both animals and video games. Vanishing Ink Twenty-year-old Maylee finds herself transported into a world by a book she finds in her grandmother's …

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Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off 9 Author Interviews and Book Spotlights on Enthralled By Love (Raina Nightingale's Paths of Fantasy)

SPFBO 9 Author Spotlight: Benjamin Aeveryn with SALT IN THE WOUND

Hi! It's almost half-way through June, and as I am scheduling these ahead of time, I really have no idea how the first weeks of the 9nth Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off are going ... I hope there's been no more drama though. And with that let me present Benjamin Aeveryn, who has a jumpy cat and …

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Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off 9 Author Interviews and Book Spotlights on Enthralled By Love (Raina Nightingale's Paths of Fantasy)

SPFBO 9 Author Spotlight: Steve Hugh Westenra with THE WINGS OF ASHTAROTH

Hello! As an SPFBO entrant myself, I am hosting spotlights for other authors in the 9nth annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off. Today, The Wings of Ashtaroth is in the spotlight, by Steve - who, among other things, has a love for spiders. The Wings of Ashtaroth The great city of Qemassen is at a crossroads. A …

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Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off 9 Author Interviews and Book Spotlights on Enthralled By Love (Raina Nightingale's Paths of Fantasy)

SPFBO 9 Author Spotlight: Jay Tallsquall with LEGACY OF THE VERMILLION BLADE

Hello! Whatever else has been joining on out in the world, this space is about the community and support we can give each other in the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off. So today, meet Jay Tallsquall, whose story-telling feats include telling ghost stories beside bonfires, and his novel ... Legacy of the Vermillion Blade Talon Cour-Vermane is …

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Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off 9 Author Interviews and Book Spotlights on Enthralled By Love (Raina Nightingale's Paths of Fantasy)

SPFBO 9 Author Spotlight: Palmer Pickering with HELIOTROPE

Hi! So, apparently, one of my Spotlight/Interviews falls on the 1st of June and the official beginning of the 9nth annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off. That honor goes to Palmer, who's been writing fiction since she was eight (incidentally, this is the same age I started, too!) and her novel ... Heliotrope Genre: Epic Fantasy/Heroic …

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Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off 9 Author Interviews and Book Spotlights on Enthralled By Love (Raina Nightingale's Paths of Fantasy)

SPFBO 9 Author Spotlight: Felix Taylor with CROWN OF REBELLION

Hello again! SPFBO 9 officially begins in just a couple days (if you want to learn about that, check out the official home page of the Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off here). Today we have Felix Taylor and his book, Crown of Rebellion, with us. Crown of Rebellion An apprentice healer. An exiled noblewoman. To defy …

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