#SPFBO Finalists – Cover love
Stage 1 of the SPFBO competition is now complete and Stage 2 has now commenced.
Today’s post is going to be short and sweet, purely a look at our ten finalists, well, a look at their covers for now. No descriptions today, I’m simply highlighting all ten book covers (with links to Goodreads because I know you’re going to want to check them out). Seriously, this is a handsome batch of books. I know, you shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover, but, at the end of the day this is the first step in tempting you to pick them up. A thing of beauty is a joy forever, so, without further ado, feast your eyes on these glorious beauties::
Norylska Groans
We Men of Ash and Shadow
Legacy of the Brightwash
Burn Red Skies
Shadows of Ivory
The Iron Crown
Hall of Bones
Reign & Ruin
The Forever King
The Mortal Blade
Do you have a favourite??
Finally, good luck to all the authors during Stage 2.
#SPFBO 6 – Cover love (11)
2 October 2020
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: #SPFBO 6, Cover Love, DH Willison, Finding Fairy Tales, Flight of the Sky Cricket, Gordon Greenhill, Harpyness is Only Skin Deep, Kate Ramsey

The 1st of June marked the start of the sixth Self Published Fantasy Blog Off (details here.) My Introductory post is here. This year I’m aiming to shine a little bit of focus on some of the books either through posting excerpts to act as teasers for potential readers or through posting some of the covers and highlighting the book that way (not just for my own books but other entries). The invitation is open to all authors from the competition – if you’d like to post an excerpt then give me a shout in the comments (also, if you’ve contacted me recently and I’ve not responded please give me a(nother) shout, I’ve noticed recently that a lot of my comments have gone straight to Spam or Pending so I may have overlooked something.
As part of the competition there is a cover contest. The details can be found here.
So, this week’s chosen SPFBO covers are below – I think a couple of these, maybe even all three, are aimed at a younger audience. The first cover – the guy in the background is a bit creepy for sure but I like the overall effect, I very much like the style of the middle cover, it really draws the eye and I love the quirky font. The third cover made me smile, I love the huge character with the green hair, well placed tree cover and bird feet. Do you have a favourite?
#SPFBO 6 – Cover love (10)
25 September 2020
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: #SPFBO 6, A Dream of Fire, Brian D Anderson, Cover Love, Dragon Mage, Dragonvein, JR Rasmussen, Tameri Etherton

The 1st of June marked the start of the sixth Self Published Fantasy Blog Off (details here.) My Introductory post is here. This year I’m aiming to shine a little bit of focus on some of the books either through posting excerpts to act as teasers for potential readers or through posting some of the covers and highlighting the book that way (not just for my own books but other entries). The invitation is open to all authors from the competition – if you’d like to post an excerpt then give me a shout in the comments (also, if you’ve contacted me recently and I’ve not responded please give me a(nother) shout, I’ve noticed recently that a lot of my comments have gone straight to Spam or Pending so I may have overlooked something.
As part of the competition there is a cover contest. The details can be found here.
So, this week’s chosen SPFBO covers are below, this week is all about the dragons. Take a look and see if you have a favourite:
#SPFBO 6 – Cover love (9)
18 September 2020
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: #SPFBO 6, Black Stone Heart, Cover Love, Michael R Fletcher, Night of the Bloody Tines, Queens of the Wyrd, Rogan Feltmate, Timandra Whitecastle

The 1st of June marked the start of the sixth Self Published Fantasy Blog Off (details here.) My Introductory post is here. This year I’m aiming to shine a little bit of focus on some of the books either through posting excerpts to act as teasers for potential readers or through posting some of the covers and highlighting the book that way (not just for my own books but other entries). The invitation is open to all authors from the competition – if you’d like to post an excerpt then give me a shout in the comments.
As part of the competition there was a cover contest. The details can be found here.
So, this week’s chosen SPFBO covers are below. I didn’t have a particular theme this week and in fact just went for three covers that are very different in style but work for me personally. Which is your favourite:
Top Ten Tuesday : Cover Love
15 September 2020
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Cover Love, That Artsy Reader Girl, Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic. Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here. This week’s topic :
Cover Freebie
If you ever stop by my blog you’ll know that I frequently focus on book covers because I like to show my appreciation for that side of the business – my only problem with this week’s theme is sticking to 10 (I might find a cunning way to cheat). I went with ten colour themes. Check out this buffet of beautiful covers: