SPFBO 4

Welcome to my SPFBO Finals page!

Find my page of Phase 1 here where you can find guest posts, reviews and interviews!

Let’s get the formalities out of the way first:

What is SPFBO?

The Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off is hosted by none other than Mark Lawrence, author of The Broken Empire, The Red Queen’s War and The Book of Ancestor trilogies. 300 books compete, judged by 10 blogs and at the end of 10 long, bloody months 1 winner will emerge. You can find every detail on Mark’s SPFBO page along with the process of all 10 blogs in Phase 1. Everything you want to know about FBR’s and my progress in Phase 1 you can find it HERE! You can follow the finals on Mark’s page as well.

What do I have to do with SPFBO?

I started phase 1 as advisor for Fantasy Book Review’s judging team, and then got asked to step up and be an actual judge for the finals. Yay! I’m really honored to get this opportunity and I’m really excited to be an even more active participant of the competition.

How are we going to go in the Finals?

Since we at FBR have 4 judges now: Emma Davis, James Tivendale, Adam Weller and myself with similar but at the same time different tastes, we decided that every finalist will get at least 2 ratings from us and we’ll put forward our average rating as FBR’s official points. Not every one of us will read/rate every book thanks to tastes but we felt like we have to still give a fair chance to every book. Between the 4 of us, we’ll be able to give enough attention to the finalists 🙂 As always, you’ll find every relevant link and information on this page and our official ratings as well.

Title	Author	FBR’s rating*
The Gods of Men	Barbara Kloss	8.0
Ruthless Magic	Megan Crewe	6.0
The Anointed	Keith Ward	6.0
Sowing	Angie Grigaliunas	4.5
Orconomics	J. Zachary Pike	8.5
We Ride The Storm	Devin Madson	8.0
Symphony of the Wind	Steven McKinnon	9.0
Out of Nowhere	Patrick LeClerc	5.0
Sworn to the Night	Craig Schaefer	7.5
Aching God	Mike Shel	8.0

*I’ll link the reviews appearing on FBR’s official site. For my reviews please look below.

My reviews of the SPFBO 4 finalists

Please note, that these ratings aren’t the final ones. These reviews only contain my personal opinion and rating.

Title	Author	My rating
We Ride The Storm	Devin Madson	8.0
Symphony of the Wind	Steven McKinnon	9.0
Sworn to the Night	Craig Schaefer	8.0
Aching God	Mike Shel	7.5
Out of Nowhere	Patrick LeClerc	6.0