Mark Lawrence's Blog, page 16

The Liar's Key UK cover!

This is the UK cover for The Liar's Key.

Read more about it here.

Pre-order for the win! (oh, go on!)

Giving away a signed The Liar's Key

Did you know there's a giveaway on Goodreads for a signed copy of The Liar's Key?

Cos there is!

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...

Great opportunity for self-published fantasy authors!

Basically this is a no-brainer if you have a self-published fantasy book.

Send me the manuscript or a link to the free Amazon copy and you're in a competition with the prize being reviews from ten high profile fantasy book bloggers.

Please spread the word! And hurry - the 250 spaces are filling fast.

I lay it all out HERE

BUY MY BOOK

Buy my book (oh, go on!)

These days I quite often find myself being asked questions by other authors about self-promotion. On several occasions they've told me "my agent said: go look at what Mark Lawrence does". I see myself cited on blogs and forums as someone who is 'getting it right'.


On self-promotion. [click to read more]

"GRIMDARK"

What is grimdark? Is it dead now? Was it ever alive?

I invited Joe Abercrombie, R Scott Bakker, Teresa Frohock, Kameron Hurley, Karen Miller and Richard Morgan to tell me... AND THEY DID!

The first half million...

As of June 2014 I'm able to say that over half a million copies of the Broken Empire trilogy have been sold in English.

Read more HERE

Xmas give-away / video contest

Signed books, T-shirts, mugs! It's all happening.

Check details HERE

The Liar's Key has a cover!

You can still vote to get Prince of Fools in the final of the Goodreads Choice award HERE.

Meanwhile - book 2, The Liar's Key has a cover!

(details on Fantasy Faction!)

It's rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrround 2!

The Goodreads Choice Awards are now open for round 2 - the semi-final!

https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...

In each category the original 15 nominees have been joined by 5 write-ins.

Votes in this round combine with votes from round 1 to select the 10 finalists for round 3.

I've voted for write-in Fool's Assassin. It's the only one of the 20 in Best Fantasy that I've read (apart from my own) and it's an excellent book.

If you've not read Hobb, do so!

If you've not read Fool's Assassin then I hope you can vote for Prince of Fools as it needs every vote it can get if it's to fluke scraping its way into the last 10.

Many thanks!

Prince of Fools nominated for Best Fantasy 2014

Prince of Fools is a Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Fantasy 2014.

Only a handful of the 15 nominees have fewer ratings than Prince of Fools so without your help the chances of the book making the finals are SLIM!

Last year Emperor of Thorns scraped into the final and came 9th of 10. So you can see the odds that the first book in a new trilogy has to overcome.

VOTE like the wind!

https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...

Being on the list (especially the final list) is a great boost for book & author, so all support appreciated!

I have more to say on my blog...

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