Stage 1 of the SPFBO competition is almost complete and today Team LB=TC² will announce their Finalist.  For more information about the competition and to keep an eye on the finalist board check out this link.

I’m not going to drag this post out, I know that this is a nerve wracking time for the authors and so I’m going to cut to the chase.  After much deliberation the Finalist for LB=TC² is (also, check out the Critiquing Chemist’s review here): 

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Our four Semi Finalists:

My congratulations to Tim Hardie.  Commiserations to the other authors.  There were no easy choices with this group but unfortunately there can be only one.

Thanks to all the authors who took part for making this competition possible.

All my SPFBO reviews are posted below:

1. Deathborn by CE Page
2. Graves Robbed, Heirlooms Returned by Ashley Capes
3. Stranded by Rosalind Tate
4. One of Us by ML Roberts
5. Berserker by Dimitrios Gkirgkiris
6. Stone Magus by Stephanie C Marks
7. Book of Secrets by Claudia Blood
8. Dragonbirth by Raina Nightingale
9. Carrion by Alyson Tait
10. Iarraindorn by Phil Dickens
11. Rising Shadows (The Pillar of Creation, #1) by Phillip Blackwater
12. By the Pact by Joanna Maciejewska
13. Little White Hands by Mark Cushen
14. Out of the Dust by Joe Coates
15. The Throne of Ice and Ash by JDL Rosell
16. Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater
17. Hall of Bones by Tim Hardie
18. Subversive by Colleen Cowley