November BOTM

[Abby]

I have a couple Stand Alone Fantasy books to add to the pole for November, but I'm struggling to find 5. Most tend to be part of a series, and I'd like to avoid that for as long as possible.

So far I have the following books to add to the poll:

The Formerly Dark Mage
Seducing Hope
and Constellation, that I can't get to pull up for some reason right now.

Any other suggestions? I'd like to have 5 on the poll.

[Mel]

I'll look through my TBR list and see if I can find any

[Abby]

Mark - thanks on the heads up for the double post. Not sure how I managed that, but thank you!

[Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!*]

It's so hard to find standalone fantasy these days. I clicked through some SPFBO finalists and found this one:

Never Die

[Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!*]

Here are a couple more that appear to be standalones, at least so far:

The War of Undoing
Chaos Trims My Beard
Pilgrimage to Skara

I think standalone fantasy is rare largely due simply to genre and consumer expectations, and indy authors looking to build up a readership and potential income stream would do well to craft a series, both to meet general fantasy expectations and because some percentage of readers will continue buying a series if they liked the first book.

[Abby]

Marc *Dark Reader of the Woods* wrote: "Here are a couple more that appear to be standalones, at least so far:

The War of Undoing
Chaos Trims My Beard
Pilgrimage to Skara

I think standalo..."

That's what I'm finding too, and it makes sense. Thank you for sending me those. I'll get them added to our bookshelf and next month's poll.