Audible Fantasy 2 for 1 Sale

I love audio books, and Audible's 2 for 1 sale is always a great opportunity to pick up a few extra listens. From now until May 22 (11:59 PT) these are the audio titles in the fantasy category on the 2 for 1 sale.

Title	Author	Narrator	Series	Release Date	Rating	# Ratings
Skinwalker	Faith Hunter	Khristine Hvam	Book 1: Jane Yellowrock	04/13/10	4.1	4,956
The Dragons   of Dorcastle	Jack Campbell	MacLeod Andrews	Book 1: Pillars of Reality	12/02/14	4.3	6,010
The Name of the Wind	Patrick Rothfuss	Nick Podehl	Book 1: KingKiller Chronicles	05/15/09	4.7	39,439
Wise Man's Fear	Patrick Rothfuss	Nick Podehl	Book 2: KingKiller Chronicles	03/03/11	4.8	32,214
Gunmetal Magic	Ilona Andrews	Renée Raudman	Book 5.5 Kate Daniels	07/31/12	4.4	2,058
Day Shift	Charlaine Harris	Susan Bennett	Book 2: Midnight, Texas	05/05/15	4.5	1,517
Clean Sweep	Ilona Andrews	Renée Raudman	Book 1: Innkeeper Chronicles	03/19/14	4.3	2,873
Dead Ever After	Charlaine Harris	Johanna Parker	Book 13: Sookie Stackhouse	05/07/13	4.0	3,966
My Life as a White Trash Zombie	Diana Rowland	Allison McLemore	Book 1: White Trash Zombie	07/03/12	4.4	3,897
Halfway to the Grave	Jeaniene Frost	Tavia Gilbert	Book 1: Night Huntress	03/31/10	4.3	7,156
Just One Damned Thing After Another	Jodi Taylor	Zara Ramm	Book 1: Chronicles of St. Mary's	04/01/14	4.3	4,844
College Arcane	John Conroe	James Patrick Cronin	Book 8: Demon Accords	10/27/15	4.8	1,469
Monster Hunter International	Larry Correia	Oliver Wyman	Book 1: Monster Hunter	03/15/11	4.4	13,463
Cursed	Benedict Jacka	Gildart Jackson	Book 2: Alex Verus	01/06/14	4.5	2,158
Corpies	Drew Hayes	Kyle McCarley	Book 1: Super Powereds Spinoff	05/24/16	4.1	1,879
Dragons of Autumn Twilight	Weis & Hickman	Paul Boehmer	Book 1: Dragonlance Chronicles	01/08/13	4.2	2,182
Dragons of Winter Night	Weis & Hickman	Paul Boehmer	Book 2: Dragonlance Chronicles	01/07/13	4.5	1,240
Lycan Fallout	Mark Tufo	Sean Runnette	Book 1: Lycan Fallout	07/12/13	4.5	2,442
Theft of Swords	Michael J. Sullivan	Tim Gerard Reynolds	Book 1: Riyria Revelations	03/16/12	4.6	14,494
Kizumonogatari	Nisioisin	Multiple	Book 1: Wound Tale	05/25/16	4.6	407
The Lost Gate	Orson Scott Card	Multiple	Book 1: Mithermages	01/04/11	4.2	7,404
Lies of Locke Lamora	Scott Lynch	Michael Page	Book 1: Gentleman Bastards	05/13/09	4.5	9,582
Red Seas Under Red Skies	Scott Lynch	Michael Page	Book 2: Gentleman Bastards	09/21/09	4.6	6,002
Ex-Heroes	Peter Clines	Snyder & Hvam	Book 1: Ex-Heroes	05/10/11	4.1	7,086
Homeland	R. A. Salvatore	Victor Bevine	Book 1: Legend of Drizzt	03/26/13	4.5	7,127
Wizard's First Rule	Terry Goodkind	Sam Tsoutsouvas	Book 1: Sword of Truth	10/15/08	4.4	8,519
Stone of Tears	Terry Goodkind	Jim Bond	Book 2: Sword of Truth	05/13/08	4.2	5,179
Assassin's Apprentice	Robin Hobb	Paul Boehmer	Book 1: Farseer Trilogy	03/02/10	4.2	5,370
Nine Princes in Amber	Roger Zelazny	Alessandro Juliani	Book 1: Chronicles of Amber	07/31/12	4.1	2,852
Armageddon's Children	Terry Brooks	Dick Hill	Book 1:  Genesis of Shannara	05/06/08	4.2	1,406

Nice company to be in

There's been movement on the best-selling epic fantasy for upcoming epic fantasy novels. Pleased to be sharing the top spots with Brandon Sanderson and Peter V. Brett. Keep those pre-orders coming in, and as always I thank you for your support.

What a glorious weekend!

My thanks to everyone who picked up Age of Myth while it was on sale on Saturday. I'm pleased to announce that your support made it the #1 Audible Bestseller! Kind of a good feeling being number 1 out of 358,248 books!

It also helped out my author ranking substantially as well:

Usually I'm ranked in the 30's or 40's, which is definitely something to be proud of. Still, it's fun to swim around with the biggest fishes in the business, even if it is only temporary.

In other news, work on The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter continue to go well. Just a few chapters left to go!

Age of Myth is an Audible Daily Deal

I'm pleased to announce that for today only, you can get a copy of the audible version of Age of Myth at a special discounted price. This is an excellent opportunity (and great timing as the second book, Age of Swords, will be coming out in just a few months). How deeply discounted?  Well, you can get it for just $5.95. That's more than 75% of the regular price and  83% off the member price.

Even better...if you've not heard one of my stories read by the amazing Tim Gerard Reynolds, then you're in for a real treat. Tim makes me sound so much better than I really am, and you shouldn't miss his performance.

And if that isn't enough to convince you, to pick it up today, then maybe the opinions of people who have already listened to it will help.  The audio version is rated at 4.6 with more than 5,300 reviews or ratings...and 5,000+ of those have given it 4- or 5-stars.

The only catch is you'll have to hurry, the sale price will vanish at 11:59 PT. I hope you'll give the book a try, and if you do, I hope you enjoy the listen!

New Epic Fantasy Coming Soon to Audible

Brandon Sanderson, Robin Hobb, Terry Brooks, Peter V. Brett, and even little ole me have some books coming out soon, and if you have a few spare audio credits, you might just want to put one of these on pre-order. Out of the 14 Epic Fantasy titles coming soon, I'm pleased that mine are hitting at #4 an #7 when sorted by best sellers. Here's the complete list, along with links if you want to learn more about any of the titles.

Title	Author	Narrator	Release Date	Series
Assassin's Fate	Robin Hobb	Elliot Hill	05/09/17	Book #3 Fitz and the Fool
Oathbringer	Brandon Sanderson	Kate Reading  Michael Kramer	11/14/17	Book #3 Stormlight Archive
War Mage	Terry Mancour	John Lee	05/19/17	Book #2 Spellmonger
Age of Swords	Michael J. Sullivan	Tim Gerard Reynolds	07/25/17	Book #2: Legends of the First Empire
Deadmen Walking	Sherrilyn Kenyon	Holter Graham	05/09/17	Book #1: Deadman's Cross
The Core	Peter V. Brett	Pete Bradbury	10/03/17	Book #5 Demon Cycle
The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter	Michael J. Sullivan	Tim Gerard Reynolds	12/17/17	Book #4: Riyria Chronicles
The Black Elfstone	Terry Brooks	Simon Vance	06/13/17	Book #1: Fall of Shannara
The Book of Dust	Phillip Pullman	TBA	10/19/17	Book #1: His Dark Materials
The Witchwood Crown	Tad Williams	TBA	06/27/17	Book #1: The Last King of Osten Ard
Thick as Thieves	Megan Whalen Turner	Steve West	05/16/17	Book #5: Queen's Thief
You Die When you Die	Angus Watson	Sean Barrett	06/20/17	Book #1: West of West
Forgotten Soliders	Joshua P. Simon	Steven Brand	05/09/17	Book #1: Tyrus Chronicles
The Empire's Ghost	Isabelle Steiger	Jeremy Arthur	05/16/17	N/A

The big 1,000,000!

One of the nice (and terrible) things about writing is the fact that there is always a new goal to reach, a new milestone that lies just out of reach. It keeps me striving for that next level and each time one is achieved it acts as a benchmark of success to bolster my spirits on the bad days when a harsh review or frustrating day's writing can make me doubt whether I should be doing "this gig" at all.

One of the goals I've had for a long, long time was to hit that allusive 1,000,000 copies sold benchmark. Technically speaking, I've been what most would consider a "best-seller" for a long time now, but for me it's that seven digit number that has always been the mark where I felt I could say legitimately use that title.

Yesterday, Robin tallied the numbers and according to her estimates I've sold 1,032,220 books. There are many ways to count so let me be specific about what this means:

• This ONLY includes full-length English-language novels sold, it doesn't include sales for any of the anthologies I'm in or the short stories I've written.

• This DOES NOT include any of my foreign language sales (because we just don't have good data from those sources).

• THIS DOES NOT include any "freebies" so, for instance when I give away an ebook to a purchaser of a print or audio copy I'm counting only 1 sale.

• THIS DOES include all major formats of my book: hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audio.

• THIS DOES include my self-publishing sales as well as books sold by Hachette, Penguin Random House, Tachyon, Recored Books and Audible Studios.

So, thank you everyone for making yet another dream come true. Your support is most appreciated and just so you know I'm nearing the conclusion of The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter and the release date remains at December 5th with a recoding date of October 16th.  And of course it's exactly three months until the release of Age of Swords!

Two Legends of the First Empire Giveaways

Hey all, tax day is over, July is on it's way, and I feel the excitement growing for the Age of Swords release. So let's giveaway some books, shall we?

Robin just launched two Goodreads Giveaways (and opened them up to people from all countries). You can find them here:

Age of Myth

Age of Swords

Even if you've already read the first book, go ahead and enter (you can always give a copy to a friend).  For those that are champing at the bit to read Age of Swords, the ARC will get into the winner's hands three months before the release date!

Oh, and I should mention that if you've already pre-ordered Age of Swords, there are a bunch of goodies you can get.  What kind of stuff?  Well, things like:

• First 5 chapters of Age of Swords to read early
• Online high-resolution map for the series
• Screen savers featuring Marc Simonetti's Artwork for Age of Myth 
• Online (searchable) Age of Myth glossary
• Online (searchable) Age of Swords glossary
• Recap of Age of Myth to refresh your memory
• Bonus ebook: Inside Age of Myth - a behind the scenes look at Legends of the First Empire
• Bonus ebook: Making of Age of Swords
• Bonus Legends short story: Little Wren and the Big Forest
• Bonus Riyria short story: Professional Integrity

To get the freebies, it doesn't matter where you buy the books from or what format they are in (ebook, hardcover, and audio are all eligible).  Just email me a copy of your receipt (please have Age of Sword Pre-order as the subject line so I can see them easily, and we'll get the bonus stuff to you.