If you would like to be kept up to date with the upcoming lists, please subscribe to my newsletter by clicking this link. I don’t send out letters too often, pretty much once a month when this list goes out… and occasionally if I release a book or something.
As always, this is not a comprehensive list, but only includes all the books I have heard about so far.
If you have a fantasy novel you are self publishing in August or beyond, let me know by filling out THIS FORM, and I shall add it to the page. There are but 3 requirements:
1) It must be a self published fantasy novel.
2) It must have a Goodreads page.
3) It must have a cover.
1st August – Last Among Equals by Peter J. Aldin
Epic Fantasy
Sometimes, it’s the outsiders who have the most to offer.
And the most to lose.
As monstrous hordes of Trell carve bloody swathes across the southern nation of Ollaj, northern Kardalan quietly revels in its neighbor’s downfall. Until the Trell appear at their own borders.
The fate of both countries now rests upon the shoulders of two unlikely heroes…
Erik Hødegaal, a disgraced Kardelian nobleman and warrior, unjustly branded a traitor and shunned for his father’s sins.
And youthful Prej, the last of Ollaj’s mages, an inexperienced apprentice who hides a secret calling she feels ill-prepared to fulfill.
To thwart the Trell scourge, these traditional enemies must forge an alliance, rallying a ragtag band of soldiers and sorcerers to face an enemy razing everything in their path.
In a world where old grudges run deep and new horrors emerge, Erik and Prej must learn to trust each other—or else bear witness to the destruction of both their homelands.
1st August – In Deep Coprolite (Shade the Collector #2) by Douglas Lumsden
Urban Fantasy
LET SLEEPING DUNG LIE!
Benedict Shade, were-cat and collector of exotic magical artifacts, is tasked by the Lord’s Investigation Agency to “collect” (i.e., “steal”) two pieces of fossilized dung from a river spirit in a backwoods town. What seems to be a routine job (for him) turns out to be anything but. Everyone in town believes Shade is an undercover agent for the LIA, a charge his hepcat buddy, Dwayne, is quick to remind him is true. A mysterious femme fatale can’t decide whether to seduce Shade or let him be killed by a horde of human mudfish. And if Shade can’t play marriage counselor to a pair of squabbling spirits, the result could be a cataclysmic natural disaster!
3rd August – Embers Rising (The Last Draegion Saga #2) by Cindy L Sell
Epic Fantasy
Long ago, the last draegion stole power from the god of chaos. Now he’s coming to take it back.
Sorceress Daeya McVen has been falsely accused of treason—a crime punishable by death. Forced to flee her home in the Sorcerers’ Guild, she has no choice but to leave her father in the clutches of her former mentor, Lucius Gregory, who seeks her newly awakened magic for his own ends.
Desperate to rescue her father, Daeya turns to the Syljians for help—only to become their most valuable hostage in the war between them and the Guild. Her one bargaining coin is the same draegion magic that Gregory covets: the ancient ability to command dragons. But without the stabilizing force of a dragonbond, the draegion’s power will consume Daeya, while controlling it requires a sacrifice she’s not willing to make.
Gregory isn’t the only one seeking the runaway sorceress. Within Daeya lies another power stolen from Anordis, god of chaos—a power he is determined to reclaim. If he does, then only Daeya’s magic will stand between him and the greater pantheon’s destruction.
5th August – Wagons & Wyverns (Fables of Finlestia) by Z.S. Diamanti
Cozy Fantasy
From behind the throne to trails unknown …
Zarnikorek spent much of his life in the service of a wicked orc king. When a new rebellion seizes control of the kingdom and overthrows the king, Zarni has no choice but to move back to his quaint hometown in the Ghun-Ra valley.
With his life of regal service seemingly in the past, Zarni must live a quiet and inconspicuous life of loneliness to avoid being recognized. But when the new king’s mage adviser pays the goblin a visit, Zarni is tasked with a quest that could change everything.
Teaming up with a jovial halfling wagoner, he embarks on an unforgettable road trip for the ages to follow an ancient and mysterious trail. But as their friendship grows, Zarni might just discover something he thought he’d never find again.
Take to the trail and discover what magic awaits.
7th August – War Song RE-RELEASE (Dreams of Dust and Steel) by Michael Michel
Epic Fantasy
Admar’s future is a path paved with broken glass.
Each step forward living under Scothean tyranny cuts away another piece of his humanity–right down to the bone.
But even a meager life as a miner is better than a pointless death. A sister, a mother, a lover, all lost at the uncaring hands of the Scoths, have left him with nothing but memories and ash for comfort. While stories like his are all too common, they still aren’t enough to stoke rebellion among the oppressed.
If Admar is to find hope amid the brutal occupation of his homeland, he’ll have to question how deep his convictions go. For with every crack of the enemy’s whip, he’ll know torment. With every swipe of their axes, he’ll know suffering. And every moment he refuses to act will drag him further from his destiny.
Maybe there are no more heroes left…
Or maybe they’re waiting to be made.
17th August – The Dragon Priestess of Vinden (Tales of Tempus) by E. Solofoni
Epic Fantasy, YA
All of Tempus has bound themselves to the first king of the Ben’min throne in a bid to unite the world after their departure from Paradise…
In her haste to escape home, Aiyana stumbles into a sea of nightmares that she fears she will never fully wake from. Unless she can aid the man suffering in her dreams. The man known as a Sominium.
But there is more to these shadows that darken her path, and Aiyana will soon need to rise to her destined station as the Dragon Priestess of Vinden.
26th August – The Tidal Helm (The Zemkoska Chronicles) by Helen Rygh-Pedersen
Epic Fantasy, Romance
How to save a dynasty:find the missing people, find the lost crown, and right the wrongs of the past.
The Briar Crown will soon receive a new owner, but Deyzi Domonov is determined not to let it claim her as its next victim. In order to do that, she needs to find its counterpart, the Tidal Helm.
But neither the helm nor the Waterborn population have been seen since the Fall of Eluha, when her great grandfather invaded the country, slaughtering the king and queen and ripping Domovnia apart. After finding her mother’s journal, Deyzi decides to fulfil the late Queen’s plans to excavate the only place they haven’t looked, the maze of canals and caves that lie beneath the length of the country.
With the help of a renowned explorer, Deyzi descends into a dangerous world in search of a lost civilization, certain that they possess the item she seeks. But digging up the past uncovers hard truths about her own family, her country and the true purpose of their mission.
Meanwhile, their guide in the watery underworld is torn between helping the woman – with hair like the sun he has never seen – and handing her over to his people to break the curse that binds them.
As her search for the truth becomes a battle of survival, Deyzi must dig deep to save not only herself, but the people and country she loves. But can she do it without a Waterborn by her side, or will this be the end of the Domonov dynasty once and for all?
26th August – Death to the Dread Goddess! by Morgan Stang
Grimdark
All Hitch the hermit wants to do is go fishing, smoke her pipe, and take care of her snails. Unfortunately, the world has other ideas.
It’s the day of the final battle between good and evil, and the light has won. The White Star, hero of ages and leader of the rebellion, has conquered the Dread Goddess. Cast from her throne in the Onyx Tower, the mad tyrant falls like a comet — right into Hitch’s lake.
Magically shackled and drained of power, the Goddess must rely on Hitch to flee the rebel army. Even dethroned, she is divine, and she promises to reward Hitch with heavenly wonders. But the hermit knows something that no one else does: how to kill the Dread Goddess for good.
And she has the means to do it.
With the White Star in hot pursuit, the unlikely duo must race across the land to recover the tyrant’s strength. After a journey filled with mind-bending sorcery and horror, unexpected technology, deep secrets of the universe, a depressed fire-breathing frog, multiple accidental murders, and one legendary collectible card game tournament, Hitch must make a decision that will change everyone’s fate.
Kill the Goddess?
Or set her free?
26th August – Austringer’s Wrath (Gifts of the Auldtree #2) by E.L. Lyons
Epic Fantasy
The Austringer has fallen! A new Austringer is risen!
Minalav is in pieces, needs are high but trust is low. After Axly’s plan placed her on the throne, she is faced with the displeasure of High and Low Birds, the Nameless, and the humans of the city.
In a bid to bring much needed supplies, Axly offers the one thing all nations covet: sprygan weapons. In the lands of Remorra, General Grimwalt is selected to represent his kingdom. Sent by his cousin, King Henry, who has more in mind than just the sprygan weapons, Grim must negotiate with a woman he doesn’t remember.
27th August – Liminal Monster by Luke Tarzian
Fantasy Horror
IN THE CENTER OF THE FOREST SITS A HOUSE OF LEAVES AND ASH. INSIDE THE HOUSE, HIS HEART AND LIES.
Inside the house called Sempiternity there is a lake, at the center of which an island sits. Upon the island, a spire of stone. Surrounding the spire, an orchard of dreams.
Beneath an apple tree sits faceless Self, who writes of sorry things. “What an awful place. What a cruelty it is, being birthed of pain.”
But when a dog that should not be wanders into Sempiternity through a door that should not be, Self learns a terrible truth: Sempiternity is no longer safe, no longer theirs. Fictional failures come in search of proper ends, in search of slaughter quelled by Self’s prosaic hand.
In search of lies.
Thus, Self departs Sempiternity for the forest dark, for at its center is the ruined town of Own.
The place where the nightmare began.
28th August – Demon’s Rise (The Jantakai Saga #2) by R.E. Sanders
Epic Fantasy
A new force is rising
Like the onset of a great storm, darkness spreads out to cover the land
Trouble is brewing across The Jantakai, the lands of the Twin Swords. Old alliances are strained, a fragile peace is threatened, and the signs of oncoming war are clear. Gods are invoked, old and new, as folk seek solace in the mystical.
Soldier in exile, Eain Connow, is thrown into the thick of the chaos when he is embroiled with first flames of a civil war in Tayo. He has had more than his share of war, but now he must fight just to survive.
Ellyah and Nastja find themselves in even deeper trouble. Hunted for reasons they do not understand, accused of vile crimes, the net tightens around them as they strive to reach the ancient city of Glithoniel. They do not know who to trust, or where to turn.
Others are drawn in, the lure of the Demon’s Tear inescapable and beguiling. They must all choose sides and work out who is friend and who is foe, if they are to live through the oncoming storm.
No prophecies
No destiny
The new heroes of our time shall choose themselves