Mark Lawrence's Blog

Which book of mine did you read most recently?

Big-name authors vs AI!

Here are a number of big name authors competing in a flash fiction contest with ChatGPT 5.

Can you spot the difference? Are the humans better?

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It's Strange Up North

I'll be doing a 3 hour meet, greet, & sign thing with many other authors in Waterstones, Leeds on the 24th of May.

Come along - will be fun - you don't have to stay for the whole thing :)




Get a ticket here:
https://www.waterstones.com/events/it...

Patreon monthly giveaway

December's give-away of signed books on my Patreon is all hardcovers. Two of them ARCs!

https://www.patreon.com//marklawrence...

Giving away special edition

I'm giving this away over on Bluesky!

https://bsky.app/profile/marklawrence...

It's a great alternative to Twitter.

Good luck!

SPFBOX finalists!

The finalists for the 10th annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off have been selected from this year's 300 entries.

Check them out!



More info here:
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The 10th annual SPFBO contest is open to entries!

The Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off contest is now closed to entries.



The 300 entries have been randomly selected from a field of 595 requests - you can follow the contest here:

https://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/...

SPFBO 9 about to end!

The 9th annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off, #SPFBO 9, ends today or tomorrow!

The lead changed hands AGAIN last night 😮

Check the full scoreboard here:

https://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/...

These are the top 10 books from this year's intake of 300 titles.

SPFBO 9 about to end!

The 9th annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off, #SPFBO 9, ends today or tomorrow!

The lead changed hands AGAIN last night 😮

Check the full scoreboard here:

https://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/...

These are the top 10 books from this year's intake of 300 titles.

Does anyone see these?

Goodreads really provides no channel for authors to speak to their readers. I have over 50,000 followers here, and yet this blog is lucky to get 10 likes on a post...

Anyway...

I signed these and a bunch more of all my books for Forbidden Planet last week. You can get signed copies of pretty much all my books in their stores.

Plus The Book That Broke the World can be got signed and dirt cheap from their online store:

https://forbiddenplanet.com/419398-th...

Enjoy! :)