Unfettered in EBook Format

Shawn Speakman's fantasy anthology, Unfettered, is available as an ebook as of today! It's got great stories by lots of great authors in it. The table of contents looks like this:

• Foreword by Patrick Rothfuss
• Introduction: On Becoming Unfettered
• Imaginary Friends by Terry Brooks (a precursor to the Word/Void trilogy)
• How Old Holly Came To Be by Patrick Rothfuss (a Four Corners tale)
• River of Souls by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson (a Wheel of Time tale)
• The Old Scale Game by Tad Williams
• Game of Chance by Carrie Vaughn
• Martyr of the Roses by Jacqueline Carey (a precursor to the Kushiel series)
• Dogs by Daniel Abraham
• Mudboy by Peter V. Brett (a Demon Cycle tale)
• The Sound of Broken Absolutes by Peter Orullian (a Vault of Heaven tale)
• The Coach With Big Teeth by R.A. Salvatore
• Keeper of Memory by Todd Lockwood (a Summer Dragon tale)
• Heaven in a Wild Flower by Blake Charlton
• The Chapel Perilous by Kevin Hearne (an Iron Druid tale)
• Select Mode by Mark Lawrence (a Broken Empire tale)
• All the Girls Love Michael Stein by David Anthony Durham
• Strange Rain by Jennifer Bosworth (a Struck epilogue tale)
• Nocturne by Robert V. S. Redick
• Unbowed by Eldon Thompson (a Legend of Asahiel tale)
• In Favour With Their Stars by Naomi Novik (a Temeraire tale)
• The Jester by Michael J. Sullivan (a Riyria Chronicles tale)
• The Duel by Lev Grossman (a Magicians tale)
• Walker and the Shade of Allanon by Terry Brooks (a Shannara tale)
• The Unfettered Knight by Shawn Speakman (an Annwn Cycle tale)
• Acknowledgments

Pretty cool, huh?Check HERE for more information.

Legacy Award Nominees

I had the pleasure of serving as one of the judges for this year's Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards. This is an award for black writers from around the world, so long as their book was published in the US.

There were some very good books in the mix - as there are every year. Some featured contemporary issues, some looked at history, many had truly international perspectives and settings.

The winners haven't been announced yet, but the nominees have.

You can check them out HERE.