[dktorode]

Listening to it now at work

[QuickTidal]

Sullivan got picked up by ORBIT now. Bought bloody time!

Exciting!

http://icebergink.bl...vans-ryria.html

[Fist Gamet]

I am of a mind to have a read of this but I have a horrendous (in a good way) number of books in my 'to be read' pile. I tend to want to see a number of reviews first as well, having been burned before, thus, has anyone else read The Crown Conspiracy yet?

[QuickTidal]

GoodReads has a good smattering of reviews for it.

[Salt-Man Z]

Fantasy Book Critic is also a big fan.

[QuickTidal]

Okay guys, with the Orbit release omnibuses coming out over the next few months I've made up a new post to check out. It has all the relevant info about the series and the author, and even info about the new short story he wrote that takes place 11 years before the first book.

http://icebergink.bl...j-sullivan.html

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 13 October 2011 - 04:15 PM, said:

Okay guys, with the Orbit release omnibuses coming out over the next few months I've made up a new post to check out. It has all the relevant info about the series and the author, and even info about the new short story he wrote that takes place 11 years before the first book.

http://icebergink.bl...j-sullivan.html

good piece on your blog, tnx for the tip. I'm in.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 13 October 2011 - 05:59 PM, said:

good piece on your blog, tnx for the tip. I'm in.

thank you kindly sir.

[Abyss]

amazon.uk had them at 5.99lbs each, which with a little exchange rate fu, worked out to less than the .ca or .com prices, so i added all three to my OST pre-order, which has the added benefit of giving me an entire series to read post Malazan fix.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 14 October 2011 - 04:38 PM, said:

amazon.uk had them at 5.99lbs each, which with a little exchange rate fu, worked out to less than the .ca or .com prices, so i added all three to my OST pre-order, which has the added benefit of giving me an entire series to read post Malazan fix.

Indeed, awesome. They are good classical fantasy with a great deal of heart.

[Michael J. Sullivan]

So how terribly cool is it to find a forum that has your name and "this guy rocks" in the title? I'd just like to thank QuickTidal and the other supporters here for helping to get the word out about my books. I was responding to an email from a guy who is just starting his path to publication and found myself saying both ... "I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy" and "There's no greater feeling in the world". It is truly a double edge sword. Publishing is a tough...tough business and everytime you reach one plateau you look up to see another sheer cliff staring you in the face. A bad review will cut through your heart like a knife and there will be numerous reasons to give up alltogether, but then you find people who really "get" what you're doing and love your work and then it is all worth it -- and then some.

In many ways, now that we are close to the Orbit release, I feel like I'm once more at the foot of a cliff face and it seems nearly impossible that I'll be able to reach the next level. But I'm better equipped now (with a large international publisher behind me) then when the climb started and I feel people cheering me on and that is SOOOOO encouraging. For those that don't know...I recently put out a little free short that is a prequel to The Riyria Revelations. It is stand alone and only 5,400 words so it's a quick easy way to test the waters as it were. I hope you'll check it out and whether I fall to my death or reach the next foothold - at least it has been an adventure along the way.

 The Viscount and the Witch - Michael J. Sullivan.pdf (647.71K)
Number of downloads: 24

[QuickTidal]

Oh awesome, thanks for stopping by Michael!

[Coco with marshmallows]

on the basis of Quick's recommendations, i've Kindled the first of these books.

It's next on my to read after the Stephenson i'm currently working through.

So i'll report back in, say, a week tops

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 16 October 2011 - 12:57 PM, said:

Oh awesome, thanks for stopping by Michael!

Seconded, and good luck to you. I'm looking forward to reading the series.
And thanks for the link to the short story.

[Coco with marshmallows]

well into the first kindle book (which is the first two combined)

entertainingly solid. liking it quite a bit. thanks for the suggestions peoples.

Edit to say - i'll be getting the rest when I finish up the current one Emotionally, I say bless you amazon 1-click. Financially it's getting me into more and more trouble. Oh well, i'd only spend the cash on drugs and hookers otherwise.

This post has been edited by Cocoreturns: 28 October 2011 - 09:36 PM

[Werthead]

Reading the first Orbit omnibus now. And it's very solid stuff. Enjoyable and light, with the 'classic fantasy' approach not meaning 'outdated and lame, y'know, like Eddings'. Fast-paced and fun with some rather subtle worldbuilding (even if the map's lack of a scale is highly confusing: we are told that the human lands are vast, yet 10 miles seems to take you from one side of a kingdom to the other). I particularly like the fact that when characters meet a long-lived individual born a thousand years earlier who hasn't hung out much with the rest of the world, they can barely understand him and it's like a modern British person trying to talk to Chaucer. They can do it, but it takes time and patience (of course, being a wizard he eventually overcomes the problem, but it's nice it's mentioned).

As of the first book (about 200 pages into the omnibus, so about 2/3s of the way through the original first volume) it's shaping up to be a fun read. As a debut novel, it's much stronger than Scholes, Weeks, Charlton or Sanderson, which I really wasn't expecting given it's self-published origins. Nice one.

[QuickTidal]

Werthead, on 13 November 2011 - 07:34 PM, said:

Reading the first Orbit omnibus now. And it's very solid stuff. Enjoyable and light, with the 'classic fantasy' approach not meaning 'outdated and lame, y'know, like Eddings'. Fast-paced and fun with some rather subtle worldbuilding (even if the map's lack of a scale is highly confusing: we are told that the human lands are vast, yet 10 miles seems to take you from one side of a kingdom to the other). I particularly like the fact that when characters meet a long-lived individual born a thousand years earlier who hasn't hung out much with the rest of the world, they can barely understand him and it's like a modern British person trying to talk to Chaucer. They can do it, but it takes time and patience (of course, being a wizard he eventually overcomes the problem, but it's nice it's mentioned).

As of the first book (about 200 pages into the omnibus, so about 2/3s of the way through the original first volume) it's shaping up to be a fun read. As a debut novel, it's much stronger than Scholes, Weeks, Charlton or Sanderson, which I really wasn't expecting given it's self-published origins. Nice one.

Glad to hear you are enjoying it sir!

Also, Esrahaddon FTW. LOL

[Abyss]

First omnibus just arrived... amazon split up my order. Am leaning towards waiting for the entire thing to be here, but ooo tempting.

[Obdigore]

Oh the omnibuses came out finally?

Might have to run over to B&N this weekend.

[polishgenius]

I've got the omnibus. Read the first one fairly sharpish, have paused the second one for a bit but will be back.

Enjoyed it. Fills the 'traditional fantasy romp' hole nicely, in a genre which is increasingly moving away from that- not that I'm complaining, but it's nice seeing the ground not entirely abandoned.

One distracting thing was the exposition - I have to disagree with Wert that the worldbuilding was subtle. On several occasions characters stopped to have conversations about things that they clearly all already know, purely for the benefit of the reader. If I'm honest, I skimmed a couple of those.

I also didn't find the prose amazing, but it was fine really; it worked, just I'm very picky and have had similar issues with Sanderson, Scholes, Charlton and several others that didn't have a certain flow.

That I thoroughly enjoyed it despite that problem (I've not finished the first books of either Scholes or Charlton yet) is a plus point for the likability factor.