Cyber Monday Sale - Save 25% - 50% Off My Books

Are you looking forward to the holidays?  Do you want some great savings on my books? Well, I certainly want to help make it easier on your pocketbook this time of year.  So, starting today (and continuing through December 11th), all my books are on sale for 25% - 50% off! My past holiday sales have been at a 20% discount, but I have a lot of excess stock (particularly Age of Swords) and I'm deeply discounting the titles, so I don't have to pay for storage.  Here are some examples of the savings you can receive.

• All three hardcovers of Legends of the First Empire now just $48.50 (regularly $83)
• All three trade paperbacks of The Riyria Revelations, now just $37.50 (regularly $50)
• All four trade paperbacks of The Riyria Chronicles, now just $40.00 (regularly $64)

Here's a breakdown of what's on sale and the savings you'll find.

And remember, all books bought from me come signed and with a custom bookmark! Oh, and one more thing...I'll throw in a free digital version of the Jester comic with each order. Now how much would you pay? Sorry, I couldn't resist. Seriously though, this is an excellent opportunity to get books you've missed to buy some presents for people you'd like to introduce to my tales.  Happy Holidays!

Goodreads Choice Awards: The Fantasy Finalists

Well, we didn't make it to the finals, but I meant it when I said it was an honor to be nominated in the first round. So who has advanced on? Here's the group of 10.

There's a lot of great things to note in this list.

• Like the US midterms, women are really kicking butt and taking names.  7 of the ten titles are written by women, just two by men, and one by a man/woman pair. That's so great to see!
• A debut novel made the list (R.F. Kuang's The Poppy War). This is an amazing achievement, and my congratulations and good wishes go to her for continued success.
• None of the write-ins advanced, but that's usually the case given they miss an entire round of voting. Still, they each should be proud to make the semi-finals. So good for them!

Here are links (and updated status) to aid you in the final round of voting.

Title	Author	Series	Rating	# Ratings	Shelved by
Beneath the Sugared Sky	Seanan McGuire	Wayward Children #3	4.09	9,656	27,215
Burn Bright	Patricia Briggs	Alpha & Omega #5	4.29	12,332	30,141
Circe	Madeline Miller	N/A	4.35	50,020	65,001
Grey Sister	Mark Lawrence	Book of the Ancestor #2	4.47	8,041	22,980
High Voltage	Karen Marie Moning	Fever #10	4.33	7,838	30,595
Iron and Magic	Ilona Andrews	Iron Covenant #1	4.45	10,784	27,373
The Poppy War	R.F. Kuang	Poppy War #1	4.09	7,633	48,826
The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro & Daniel Kraus	N/A	3.99	6,924	30,805
Spinning Silver	Naomi Novik	N/A	4.31	17,549	76,478
Year One	Nora Roberts	Chronicles of The One #1	4.07	30,171	76,499

Voting is open for the final round and it ends November 26th, so cast your ballot now!

A 7th GoodReads Choice Award Nomination

It's that time a year again! No, I'm not talking about the approaching holiday shopping season (although I've already seen Early Black Friday sales online, and television commercials featuring Santa).  What I'm referring to is the Goodreads Choice Award Voting.

I'm sorry for the lateness regarding this announcement. Robin and I have been in Italy at the Lucca Convention, and while we could see that Age of War was nominated (on our phones and tablets), we didn't have access to computers to do an official blog post on the subject. Well, we're back, and the second round of voting is underway.

Fifteen books were picked by the Goodreads staff in the opening round, including the following titles.

Here are links to the books in case you want to check them out, along with some data from Goodreads.

Title	Author	Series	Rating	# Ratings	Shelved by
Age of War	Michael J. Sullivan	Legends of the First Empire #3	4.47	4,134	19,844
Beneath the Sugared Sky	Seanan McGuire	Wayward Children #3	4.09	9,546	26,715
The Book of M	Peng Shepherd	N/A	3.75	3,909	29,834
Burn Bright	Patricia Briggs	Alpha & Omega #5	4.28	12,247	29,652
Circe	Madeline Miller	N/A	4.35	48,950	62,146
Grey Sister	Mark Lawrence	Book of the Ancestor #2	4.47	7,925	22,430
High Voltage	Karen Marie Moning	Fever #10	4.33	7,769	30,269
Iron and Magic	Ilona Andrews	Iron Covenant #1	4.45	10,622	26,616
The Land: Predators	Aleron Kong	Chaos Seeds #7	4.60	4,491	8,737
The Poppy War	R.F. Kuang	Poppy War #1	4.09	7,633	48,826
Senlin Ascends	Josiah Bancroft	Books of Babel #1	4.25	5,958	31,157
The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro & Daniel Kraus	N/A	3.98	6,819	29,941
Spinning Silver	Naomi Novik	N/A	4.31	17,138	75,254
Wrath of Empire	Brian McClellan	Gods of Blood and Powder #2	4.56	3,048	9,900
Year One	Nora Roberts	Chronicles of The One #1	4.07	29,936	75,242

During the first round, five books were added by write-in ballots from Goodreads readers, increasing the total list for the semi-finals to twenty titles.  The added books included the following:

And here are their Goodreads links and data.

Title	Author	Series	Rating	# Ratings	Shelved by
Bloody Rose	Nicholas Eames	Band #2	4.36	2,215	9,544
Foundryside	Robert Jackson Bennett	Founders #1	4.35	2,852	22,703
The Girl in the Tower	Katherine Arden	Winternight Trilogy #2	4.42	18,027	54,670
Magic Triumphs	Ilona Andrews	Kate Daniels #10	4.61	10,122	29,310
Time's Convert	Deborah Harkness	All Souls Trilogy #4	3.96	6,733	38,704

Current voting will narrow the field down to ten finalists. Although I've had seven nominations, I'm pretty sure none of my books have made it to the final round (which is fine, truly it's an honor just to be nominated). So, as always, I'm asking you to vote for the book you want to win the most, and if that happens to turn out to be Age of War, that'd be even better!  Voting in the semi-final round ends November 11th so cast your ballot now!