Queen’s Book Asylum’s main SPFBO 10 page, where you’ll find a short heads up about the contest, info about our process, the 30 books assigned to us, and how we divided them – including GR and Amazon links -, our progress in the semi-finals and finals, and updates throughout the competition.
The Sound of Madness Reading Challenge is back for the fourth year! For the oldtimers, welcome back! For the newcomers, I hope you’ll have a lot of fun this year trying to fill out these music-based reading prompts as I had a lot of fun coming up with them.
Once again, I’m setting reading goals for 2024, including reading challenges and a shortened TBR list I’d like to focus on this year.
Team Asylum reviews our first SPFBO 10 semi-finalist, A CIRCLE OF STARS by Craig Montgomery. Reviews are from Tru, Arina, Jen, Liis, and Timy.
Bjørn’s pick this week is Daylight by Stone The Crow.
Bjørn reviews TERRY PRATCHETT: A LIFE WITH FOOTNOTES: THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY by Rob Wilkins.
Timy’s pick this week is Late Goodbye by Poets of the Fall.
Timy reviews THE REANIMATOR’S SOUL, the second book in Kara Jorgensen’s romantic fantasy mystery series, The Reanimator Mysteries.
Today we are honored to help reveal the cover of Bjørn Larssen’s upcoming second novel in The Ten Worlds series, Land. Which is a grimdark retelling of the discovery of Iceland, and the sequel to Children. It’s set to be released on November 5, 2024. If you like what you see, don’t forget to pre-order or request an ARC!
Team Asylum reviews our first SPFBO 10 semi-finalist, A CIRCLE OF STARS by Craig Montgomery. Reviews are from Tru, Arina, Jen, Liis, and Timy.
It’s Andy’s turn to bring our sixth and last SPFBO 10 Semi-Finalist Reveal! He will share his thoughts on his remaining 3 titles, and tell you if he picked a semi-finalist!
It’s Arina’s turn to bring our fifth SPFBO 10 Semi-Finalist Reveal! She will share her thoughts on her remaining 3 titles, and tell you if she picked a semi-finalist!
It’s Jen’s turn to bring our fourth SPFBO 10 Semi-Finalist Reveal! She will share her thoughts on her remaining 3 titles, and tell you if she picked a semi-finalist!
Jen reviews DARK OAK, the first book in Jacob Sannox’s epic fantasy series, The Dark Oak Chronicles.
Bjørn reviews THE UNUSUAL MAYOR MARHEART, the fourth book in Tammie Painter’s contemporary fantasy series, The Cassie Black Trilogy, that can be read separately.
Timy reviews THE REANIMATOR’S HEART, the first book in the romantic fantasy mystery series, The Reanimator Mysteries by Kara Jorgensen.
Bjørn reviews MUSHROOM BLUES, Adrian M. Gibson’s debut novel, the first book in the fungalpunk noir series, The Hofmann Report.
Arina reviews THE REDEMPTION OF MORGAN BRIGHT, a standalone horror and mystery thriller novel by Chris Panatier.
Bjørn reviews A TALE OF TWO TITTIES: A Writer’s Guide to Conquering the Most Sexist Tropes in Literary History by Meg Vondriska.
The epic sale of beloved SFF books 2024 is here! What is this, you ask? Well, I’m glad you asked. Between August 23rd and 27th, you can get over 60 indie SFF titles for a mere $0.99 or even free! That sounds like a good deal to me. You’d be crazy to miss out!
We are halfway through the year so, it’s time for the Challenge Check-In 2024 Q2!
I decided that this year I’ll tackle my fear of the Magical Readathon and will give it a go, starting with the Spring Equinox 2024 event!
Last year I failed particularly at monthly updates, though I lasted for half a year so that’s not bad. So I decided to try doing it quarterly, and since we are in April, it means it’s time for the first Challenge Check-In for 2024 Q1!
Today we are honored to help reveal the cover of Bjørn Larssen’s upcoming second novel in The Ten Worlds series, Land. Which is a grimdark retelling of the discovery of Iceland, and the sequel to Children. It’s set to be released on November 5, 2024. If you like what you see, don’t forget to pre-order or request an ARC!
Today we are honored to help reveal the cover of Nick Kolakowski’s upcoming neo-noir novel, Where the Bones Lie. It’s set to be released on March 11, 2025 by Datura Books!
Today we are honored to help reveal the cover of Laura Huie’s upcoming self-published postal/isekai fantasy novel, THE ASTRAY CHOSEN, the second book in The Thedre Trilogy. It’s set to be released on August 8, 2024!
Phil Williams is once again let out of his room as we are showing you the cover of DROWN DEEP, the upcoming sequel to his military fantasy novel, However Many Must Die, the second book in The Blood Scouts series! It will be released in October 2024!
Sharon Rivest, the author of DECEIT, chose Tales from the Asylum as her SPFBO 9 spotlight, so let’s see how she imagines our home!
Brendan Noble, author of A Dagger in the Winds chose the challenge of What the Hungarian?! for his SPFBO 9 spotlight. Let’s see how he did with it!
Part 4 of the second SPFBO 9 To Be Continued… story, The Illusionist’s Nightmare is written by Mike Rousseau. Time to find out how Ezri’s story ends!
Part 3 of the second SPFBO 9 To Be Continued… story, The Illusionist’s Nightmare is written by Ryan Kirk. Her plan being made, it’s time for Ezri to get to work.
