Dec 28, 2015

Continuing to run a day late. First up, I'd like to remind everyone that we're now down to only 25 days left in my own funding period, so hopefully you'll preorder my book before then.  On that point I'm going to start modifying my recommendations slightly to highlight some of my favorite reviews posted for Exile, Magus.  Without further ado, here's my Sunday recommendations on this Monday day (links embedded in titles and author names as always).

"Exile, Magus" by Me:  I couldn't recommend ordering this more... okay, so I'm horrible at self-promotion.  Instead I'll post up my favorite review, this one from John Robin, author of Blood Dawn - "Exile, Magus, brings out the grand voice of high fantasy. Thomas Arnold brings together echos of Gulliver's Travels, Terry Pratchet, and Tolkien with his witty, scholarly narrative voice, strange races with strange names, and sense of a rigorously-thought-out world. I expect from what I read to enter something amusing, thoughtful, and intriguing all at once!"

"Annabelle's Dream and Other Stories" by A.R. Patterson: Simply an amazing powerful narrative. It succeeds in not only drawing you into the events Annabelle experiences, but also into her psyche and emotional turmoil as she endures them.

"The Children of the Forest" by Byron Gillan: With a riveting action sequence for an opener, The Children of the Forest quickly draws you into a world of airships and legends of wolf-riders. In the first four chapters currently up you get an enticing glimpse into what is obviously fully developed world and its varying cultures, as well as those who people it. The writing style engrosses you in both the characters and the world, so much so that I'm impatient to read the full book.

"Prophecy of the Stars" by Melissa Berg: I love the amount of depth given to characters in such a short time. Add to that what appears to be a highly developed mythology/structure of this world's magic as well as a very engaging narrative style, and Prophecy of the Stars quickly becomes another must read for me.

I have finally caught up a bit on my recommendations(which is why I slowed to only 3 this time), with all of the above having ending dates in February if my math is correct(except for my own which ends on 1/22). Even though you have two months or more on all of these, you shouldn't delay if you're interested. That's all I've got for recommendations today. Now I'm going to return to trying to figure out what I want tomorrow's blog post to be about. Long fiction is easy, I tend to get such writer's block only when it comes time to figure out to write short things. Enjoy the rest of your day, and hopefully you'll be hearing from me about my blog post tomorrow.