SPFBO 6 - Phase 1

This page is for phase 1 of SPFBO 6  -  read more about the contest here.

Check out the cover contest here.

Phase 1

The traditional wordle made from all the titles:

And the traditional gender breakdown based only on assumption given the name:

These are the provisional assignments:
And here are most of them on a Goodreads list thanks to Hiu Gregg.

From the list I discovered that:

34 entries ~10% have 100+ ratings on Goodreads.

 100 of the entries have 25+ ratings.

 6 of the books were published 10 or more years ago - the oldest is 20 years old!

 4 of the books have more than 1,000 pages. The longest is 1,939 pages!

 3 of the books have over a 1,000 ratings, the most ratings is 5,834.


Updates:

PHASE ONE IS COMPLETE
The Fantasy Inn announce the final finalist!

Finalist announcement from Fantasy-Faction!

Finalist announcement from The Fantasy Hive!

The Fantasy Hive review Code of the Communer.

Finalist announcement from The Critiquing Chemist!

Fantasy-Faction review Where Shadows Lie.

The Fantasy Inn make their 3rd round of cuts.

Shadow of a Dead God is reviewed on Fantasy-Faction.

Finalist announcement on Lynn's Book Blog!

Forged in Shadow is reviewed on The Fantasy Hive.

Fantasy-Faction review Shields in Shadow.

The Fantasy Hive review God of Small Affairs.

Kitty G announces her finalist!

Cuts and semi-finalists from Lynn's Book Blog.

The Rockstarlit Book Asylum announce their finalist!

Fantasy-Faction review Tales of the Thief-City.

Voice of War is reviewed on Lynn's Book Blog.

Tuyo is reviewed on Lynn's Book Blog.

Booknest announce The Lost War as their finalist!

Kitty G cuts 6 titles she liked.

The Child of Silence is reviewed on Lynn's Book Blog.

Trial of Thorns is reviewed on Lynn's Book Blog.

Fantasy-Faction declare their semi-finalists.

The Fantasy Inn reviews Legacy of Bones.

The Rockstarlit Book Asylum reviews The Knights of Dragonwatch.

Kitty G swings her axe.

Lynn's Book Blog reviews Knightmare Arcanist.

Final cuts from The Critiquing Chemist.

Six cuts from Kitty G.

Cuts and semi-finalists on Lynn's Book Blog.

A last semi-finalist is chosen on The Critiquing Chemist.

Lynn's Book Blog reviews Flight of the Darkstar Dragon.

Incursion is reviewed on Lynn's Book Blog.

Magister's Bane is reviewed on The Critiquing Chemist.

Another five bite the dust on Fantasy-Faction.

The Critiquing Chemist reviews Bloodless Assassin.

The Critiquing Chemist reviews Fires That Forge.

The Rockstarlit Book Asylum reviews The Hunter's Gambit.

The Usurper is reviewed on Lynn's Books.

The Fae and the Fallen is reviewed on The Critiquing Chemist.

Lynn's Books reviews The Hammer Of The Gods.

Lynn's Books reviews Calico Thunder Rides Again.

More eliminations from The Critiquing Chemist.

Five fall from Fantasy-Faction.

The Rockstarlit Book Asylum reviews semi-finalist Black Stone Heart.

Booknest reviews The Brightest Shadow.

Dragon's Reach is reviewed on Booknest.

Fantasy Book Critic choose their finalist!

The Fantasy Inn make their first round of cuts.

The Stone of Knowing is reviewed on Booknest.

Auring's Wrath is reviewed on Booknest.

Meadow City is reviewed on Booknest.

Fantasy Book Critic choose another semi-finalist.

Star Compass is reviewed on Booknest.

Booknest reviews The Delving.

Booknest reviews The Dragon Mage.

Booknest reviews The Power of Conviction.

Heart and Soul Fist is reviewed on Booknest.

Booknest reviews Dire.

Booknest reviews The Phoenix Embryo.

Booknest reviews Sorrowfish.

Covenant of Blood is reviewed on Booknest.

The Lost War is reviewed on Booknest.

The Jealousy Of Jalice is reviewed on Booknest.

Booknest reviews A Storm Of Silver And Ash.

Booknest reviews Architect.

Chasing Sunrise is reviewed on Booknest.

Wayfarer is reviewed on Booknest.

Semi-finalist reviewed on the Rockstarlit Book Asylum.

Booknest reviews Until All Curses Are Lifted.

Booknest review Kingdom Of Aces.

A last semi-finalist is picked on The Fantasy Hive.

The Dragon's Banker is reviewed on The Rockstarlit Book Asylum.

The Weatherwax Report picks their finalist!

More cuts from Lynn's Books.

The Fantasy Hive close in on their finalist.

Another semi-finalist from The Critiquing Chemist.

The Weatherwax Report's last semi-finalist.

The Fantasy Hive choose another semi-finalist.

Death of the Tree Path is reviewed on The Fantasy Inn.

The Weatherwax Report reports cuts.
The Rockstarlit Book Asylum reviews Black Stone Heart.
More cuts on The Fantasy Hive.
Another semi-finalist selected on The Critiquing Chemist.
Dravincia is reviewed on The Critiquing Chemist.
Rockstarlit Book Asylum choose their last semi-finalist.
The Owl At The End Of The World is reviewed on The Critiquing Chemist.
The Fantasy Hive stings three more.
The Critiquing Chemist reviews Priestess of Ishana.
Three bonds broken by The Critiquing Chemist.
Five Fall on Fantasy-Faction.
Cuts and a semi-finalist from the Rockstarlit Book Asylum.
The Fantasy Hive hives off more titles.
The Fantasy Inn post an update page.
Wyrd Gods is reviewed on The Critiquing Chemist.
The Fantasy Hive choose a semi-finalist.
The First Rule Of Adventuring is reviewed on The Critiquing Chemist.
The Fantasy Hive dole out stings and honey.
The Combat Codes is reviewed on Fantasy Book Critic.
The Critiquing Chemists perform another reduction.
Lynn's Books wields the knife.
The Fantasy Hive announce a semi-finalist.
Cuts and a semi-finalist announced on Rockstarlit Book Asylum.
Three-fall on The Fantasy Hive.
The Weatherwax Report selects another semi-finalist.
The Fantasy Inn review The Nothing Mage.
Another trio sink on the Weatherwax Report.
Squire Derel is reviewed on Critiquing Chemist.
Rockstarlit Book Asylum cut some titles.
Five fall from Fantasy-Faction.
Fantasy Inn review Radio.
Wax off. (3 more cuts).
Critiquing Chemist reviews Child of Destiny.
The Calvanni gets a review on Critiquing Chemist.
Another reduction from the Chemists.
The Weatherwax Report reviews Of Fractured Lands And Sundered Dreams.
More cuts on Lynn's Books.
Kitty G cuts more titles ... on film.
Semifinalists announced on Fantasy Book Critic.
Susurrus gets a review on Critiquing Chemist.
Necropolis gets a review from Critiquing Chemist.
Critiquing Chemist review Godless Lands.
More cuts from the Critiquing Chemist.
The Rockstarlit Book Asylum start cutting.
Birth of the Dawn Hawk is reviewed on the Weatherwax Report.
Kitty G swings her axe on Youtube.
The Weatherwax Report cuts and cuts.
Fantasy Book Critic interview their semi-finalist Alexander Darwin.
The Critiquing Chemist unveils a semi-finalist.
Booknest review The Chaos Circus.
The Weatherwax Report announce a semi-finalist.
This Cursed Flame is reviewed on The Critiquing Chemist.
A second semi-finalist is announced on Fantasy Book Critic.
The Critiquing Chemist review Crown of the Sundered Empire.
Limbo is reviewed on The Critiquing Chemist.
Fantasy Book Critic interview E.G Radcliff.
The Critiquing Chemist swing their axe again.
Booknest review A Brush With Vampires.
Lynn swings her axe - five books fall.
Bear Cavalry reviewed on Booknest.
Fantasy Book Critic pick a semi-finalist and cull some titles.
The Critiquing Chemist critiques Wynter's Edge.
The Fantasy Inn reviews A Dream Of Fire.
The Ninth Knight is reviewed on Booknest.
The Moonflower is reviewed on The Fantasy Inn.
First cuts on The Critiquing Chemist.
Booknest review Bull And The Goblin Raid.
More cuts on the Weatherwax Report.
Weatherwax Report reports on A King's Bargain.
Them Weatherwaxers review The Souls' Abyss.
Fade is reviewed on The Weatherwax Report.
The Wrack is reviewed on The Weatherwax report.
The Weatherwax Report swings the axe.
The Weatherwax Report liked Last Memoria.
Booknest review Blackbirds Sing.
Three titles cut by the Weatherwax Report.
The Weatherwax Report reviews Eye of Obscurance.

10 of 300 still in the running!

red = cut
greenish = semifinalist (also marked with + )
bold green = finalist
a blank line = removed as not self-published

Fantasy-Faction

1		Patrick Samphire		Shadow of a Dead God +
1		Clara Coulson		A Knight of Cold Graves
1		Gareth Lewis		Tales of the Thief-City +
1		David Combs		Ascension
1		A.D. Green		Rivers Run Red
1		Joan Lightning		Falling Shadows
1		Russell Meek		The Madness of Hallen
1		Myn Aunsoo		Confundo et Transfiguro
1		Stephen Murray		The Longest Shadow
1		Todd Maternowski		Exmortus
1		Michele Amitrani		Lord of Time
1		Chris Behrsin		Dragonseer
1		A.B. Endacott		The Ruthless Land
1		J. M. Hemmings		Path of the Tiger
1		Allegra Pescatore		Where Shadows Lie +
1		Ono Ekeh		The Clay Queen
1		Brian D. Anderson		Dragonvein
1		Skyla Dawn Cameron		Solomon's Seal
1		Sladen C. Mire		Kurmaru
1		Willem Neill		Embered Soul
1		Benjamin Medrano		Ancient Ruins
1		Matthew Sylvester		Hell Hound
1		Andy Peloquin		Shields in Shadow +
1		Lesli Evans		Keepers of Arden
1		Vincent B. Moneymaker		Dragons, Knights & Dinosaurs
1		Miri C. Golden		Land of Perpetual Night
1		Elana A. Mugdan		Dragon Speaker
1		Emilie Knight		Era of Undying
1		Toby Frost		Blood Under Water

Fantasy Book Critic

2		Brandon M. Lindsay		Shoreseeker
2		David Samuels		I, Exile
2		Cully Mack		A Voice That Thunders
2		R.D. Henderson		Death of the Invisible Financier
2		Florien St John		A Locket of No Particular Significance
2		Ryan Howse		The Alchemy Dirge
2		Bharat Krishnan		Oasis
2		Jason J. Nugent		The Blood Stone
2		E.G. Radcliff		The Hidden King +
2		Darian Smith		Currents of Change
2		Astrid V.J.		Aspiring, Part 1 of the Siblings' Tale
2		Jenny Schwartz		Stray Magic
2		Joseph Daniel		Graveyard Gods
2		D. T. Kane		Bladesorrow
2		Skye Horn		Wings of Fate
2		Deborah Makarios		The Wound of Words +
2		J.A. Clement		The Dragons Teeth
2		Alexander Darwin		The Combat Codes +
2		Joel Spriggs		Another Dead Intern
2		Miranda Honfleur & Nicolette Andrews		Feast of the Mother
2		Travis M. Riddle		Spit and Song +
2		K.A. Ashcomb		Worth of Luck
2		Claire Boston		The Assassin's Gift
2		Christopher Keene		Cycle of Blades
2		Danielle Mathieson Pederson		Lasera
2		Dominic Adler		Timberwolf +
2		Kristen S. Walker		The Reluctant Witch: Year One
2		Geetha Krishnan		Pradyutita +
2		Todd Herzman		A Dark Inheritance +
2		Jonatan Håkansson		Bloodline: Rise

Lynn's Book Blog

3		Steve Thomas		Mid-Lich Crisis
3		Benedict Patrick		The Flight of the Darkstar Dragon +
3		Martin Owton		EXILE
3		Jon Monson		Rise of the Forgotten Sun
3		Lola Ford		Heartscale
3		Crystal Crawford		The Edge of Nothing
3		Anthony Stevens		Shifter Shadows
3		Stacey Trombley		Trial of Thorns
3		Tony Johnson		The Story of Evil
3		Jordan J. Scavone		Night Warrior
3		Stephanie Barr		The Curse of the Jenri
3		Patrick LeClerc		Spitting Image
3		Andrew Marc Rowe		The Hammer Of The Gods: So You Want To Be A Star
3		Marina Ermakova		Chains Carried on Wings
3		ML Spencer		Chains of Blood
3		Ashley Capes		The Five Furies of Heaven
3		Joseph O. Doran		The Child of Silence
3		Shami Stovall		Knightmare Arcanist
3		Rachel Neumeier		TUYO +
3		Jon Herrera		Emma and the Minotaur
3		Evan Witmer		Long Stories: early immortals and the birth of death
3		Mark Hood		Jacob's War
3		T. A. Hernandez		Calico Thunder Rides Again +
3		M. Warren Askins		Beyond the Spire of Navarene
3		Aaron Hodges		Warbringer
3		G.E. Hathaway		Burn
3		Mitchell Hogan		Incursion
3		James Alderdice		The Usurper
3		Zack Argyle		Voice of War +

Booknest

4		Justin Lee Anderson		The Lost War +
4		Allan N. Packer		The Stone of Knowing
4		R. Dugan		The Chaos Circus +
4		Stephen James Wright		The Ninth Knight
4		Tim Frankovich		Until All Curses Are Lifted
4		Sarah Lin		The Brightest Shadow
4		Anthea Sharp		Star Compass
4		Olivia Atwater		Half a Soul
4		Justin DePaoli		Auring's Wrath
4		John Bailey		Dire
4		Chris Ing		Heart and Soul Fist
4		RT Mulder		Architect
4		Betsy Flak		A Brush with Vampires
4		Marion Blackwood		A Storm of Silver and Ash
4		Emily Mah		Chasing Sunrise
4		JA Andrews		Dragon's Reach +
4		Catrin Russell		The Power of Conviction
4		Aiki Flinthart		Blackbirds Sing +
4		Anne C. Miles		Sorrowfish
4		K.M. Weiland		Wayfarer +
4		Clayton Snyder		The Obsidian Psalm +
4		Jesse Nolan Bailey		The Jealousy of Jalice
4		D.G. Valdron		The Bear Cavalry
4		H.R. van Adel		Covenant of Blood
4		Liz Delton		Meadowcity
4		Tameri Etherton		Dragon Mage
4		Aaron Bunce		The Delving
4		Matt Heppe		Bull and the Goblin Raid
4		Steven Smith		Kingdom of Aces
4		Jeanne Marcella		The Phoenix Embryo

Kitty G

5		Ryan Kirk		The Gate Beyond Oblivion +
5		Jesse Teller		Legends of the Exiles
5		Jay Veloso Batista		Thorfinn and the Witch's Curse
5		G. Campbell		Dames and Demons
5		Lori L. MacLaughlin		Lady, Thy Name Is Trouble
5		Matt Larkin		Darkness Forged +
5		John D. Pepe		The Lone Wolf
5		Rachel Medhurst		Shrouded Kingdom
5		Melissa Wright		Frey
5		Ryan D Meier		Shadows of Creation +
5		Natalya Capello		Song of Shadow
5		Mandy and G.D. Burkhead		The Black Lily
5		L.E. Price		Bounty Hunter
5		Jodi Trask		Telluria
5		N.A.K Baldron		Sorcerer's Quest
5		Taylor Aston White		Witch's Sorrow
5		Dorian Graves		Bones and Bourbon
5		Keith Blenman		The Girl Drank Poison
5		Tiger Hebert		Dragon's Fire
5		Douglas Bain		The Woeful Wager
5		Margaret Mason		The Wall
5		Shan R.K		House Of Legions
5		Sam Puma		The Serpent and the Crown
5		Glenn Birmingham		Dragon Source
5		Antoine Bandele		By Sea & Sky
5		Anela Deen		Night Latch
5		Rohan M. Vider		Free Agent
5		Jesikah Sundin		Æroreh
5		Paul Freeman		Blood Of Kings: The Shadow Mage
5		C.D. Alexander		On Winter's Eve

Weatherwax Report

6		Phil Williams		Aftan Whispers
6		Allen Stroud		The Sword of Wisimir
6		E. G. Bateman		Fade
6		J.M. Bergen		Thomas Wildus and the Book of Sorrows
6		Fiona Jeeves		Burning Embers
6		Christopher C. Fuchs		Lords of Deception
6		Nerine Dorman		Inkarna
6		J.R. Ford		Storm's Breath
6		Jeffrey L. Kohanek		Eye of Obscurance +
6		J.D.L. Rosell		A King's Bargain +
6		Elle Cardy		Wielder's Prize
6		Deborah Grace White		Heir of the Curse
6		Rogan Feltmate		Night of the Bloody Tines
6		Steve Curry		Austin Wyrd
6		Kristen Gupton		The Phoenix Prince
6		Morten W. Simonsen		Fire Within
6		E.G. Stone		The One Who Could Not Fly
6		Jed Herne		Across the Broken Stars
6		E. D. Lazure		Of fractured lands and sundered dreams
6		Jamie Edmundson		Og-Grim-Dog: The Three-Headed Ogre
6		Gordon Greenhill		Flight of the SkyCricket
6		Rachel Emma Shaw		Last Memoria +
6		SC Gowland		The Souls' Abyss +
6		H.C. Harrington		Daughter of Havenglade
6		TJ Muir		Stolen Luck
6		Z. Apollo & M.J. Northwood		Birth Of The Dawnhawk
6		John Bierce		The Wrack
6		Peter Thomson		The Servant's Story
6		Jason James King		The Lure of Fools
6		Gabriel		Neon Red

The Fantasy Hive

7		J E Thompson		A New Beginning
7		Meg MacDonald		Oath Sworn
7		Megan Haskell		Forged in Shadow +
7		Jake Kerr		Tommy Black and the Staff of Light
7		Erik A. Otto		A Tale of Infidels
7		Selina R. Gonzalez		Prince of Shadow and Ash
7		Sharon Van Orman		Lazarus Code
7		M. J. Padgett		Eiagan's Winter
7		Marc Vun Kannon		Unbinding The Stone
7		Caren Hahn		Burden of Power
7		Suzannah Rowntree		A Wind from the Wilderness +
7		Robert Zangari		A Prince's Errand
7		Angela J. Ford		Pawn
7		Marco Marek		Hyperearth
7		Marc Secchia		The Pygmy Dragon +
7		Samuel Gately		The Headlock of Destiny
7		Simon Kewin		Hedge Witch
7		Timandra Whitecastle		Queens of the Wyrd +
7		Dustin Porta		Whalemoon
7		Derek Prior		Last of the Exalted
7		Kate Ramsey		Finding Fairy Tales
7		Madolyn Rogers		The Copper Assassin
7		Kai Greenwood		Code of the Communer +
7		Antonio Roberts		Vestige
7		R.J. Batla		Fire Eyes Awakened
7		Stas Borodin		Magic, Sorcery and Witchcraft
7		Olga Werby		God of Small Affairs +
7		Alexzander Christion		By the Hand of Dragons: AlinGuard
7		J.J. Coffelt		Nightfall
7		E.B. Brooks		Emissary

Rockstarlit Book Asylum

8		Clare Sager		Beneath Black Sails +
8		T K P Sternberg		The Singing Gold
8		Dave Dobson		Flames Over Frosthelm
8		Rainbow Maccabre		Political Nightmare
8		Ginger Li		Half-Blood Mage
8		Michelle Connor		Where Ravens Soar
8		D.H. Willison		Harpyness is Only Skin Deep
8		Stuart Kurth		Two Blades
8		D.K. Holmberg		The Edge of Darkness
8		S.L Rowland		Sentenced to Troll
8		Ela Bambust		Demon Queen
8		Nicholas McIntire		The Hunter's Gambit +
8		Scott Warren		The Dragon's Banker +
8		Eric T Knight		The Knights of Dragonwatch +
8		Gracen Bridges		Earthcore: Aftershocks
8		Michael R. Fletcher		Black Stone Heart +
8		Chris R. Underwood		Shadow of the Lantern Bearer
8		Edward Nile		Ironshield
8		Amanda Fleet		Aegyir Rises
8		Jennifer R. Povey		Firewing
8		Jonathan Pembroke		Rumble in Woodhollow
8		C M Debell		Silver Mage
8		Bekah Berge		The Whisperings in the Shadows
8		S. Kaeth		Between Starfalls
8		Eric Sparks		Truth Unearthed
8		Brett Humphrey		Awakening
8		Sean Harris		Inescapable
8		E.L. Aldryc		My Friend, The Gifted
8		Lily Lashley		Epilogue

The Critiquing Chemist

9		Sarah Chorn		Of Honey and Wildfires +
9		Vichet Ou		The First Rule of Adventuring
9		Susana Imaginário		Wyrd Gods
9		RJ Hanson		Fires that Forge
9		Edie James		The Steel Road
9		JC Kang		Crown of the Sundered Empire
9		Thiago d'Evecque		Limbo
9		Andy Giesler		The Nothing Within +
9		Rachel Ford		Squire Derel
9		Luke Daher		First Steps
9		Judith Starkston		Priestess of Ishana
9		Xina Marie Uhl		Necropolis
9		Opal Edgar		Tosho is Dead
9		M.K.Adams		Child of Destiny
9		Jason Franks		Shadowmancy
9		Celine Jeanjean		The Bloodless Assassin
9		B. Morris Allen		Susurrus
9		Lucas Pederson		Wynter's Edge
9		Raymond St. Elmo		The Origin of Birds in The Footprints of Writing +
9		Blake Severson		The Dimensional Wars, Dravincia
9		Nicole Zoltack		Bloodlust
9		Robert H. Fleming		The Fall of Erlon +
9		Brittni Chenelle		The Fae & The Fallen
9		Sean Crow		Godless Lands
9		Yvette Bostic		Magister's Bane +
9		Selina J. Eckert		This Cursed Flame
9		Barbara G.Tarn		Magical Friends
9		Chris McMahon		The Calvanni
9		A.G. Marshall		Princess of Shadows

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The Owl at The End of The World

The Fantasy Inn

10		Kim May		The Moonflower
10		Aldrea Alien		To Target the Heart
10		David Hambling		War of the God Queen
10		Richard Switzer		Patch and Max: a grimdark
10		J. Rushing		Radio +
10		Phillip Murrell		Augury Answered
10		Jennifer Silverwood		Silver Hollow
10		J. Anthony Oaks		The Emerald Brotherhood
10		Gerhard Gehrke		Midnight Monster Club
10		David Viergutz		The Demonic Compendium
10		Mike Truk		The Five Trials
10		J.R. Rasmussen		A Dream of Fire +
10		Brandon Jones		The Broken Man
10		JL Rothstein		Atonement
10		Kirk Dougal		Legacy of Bones
10		Blake Michael Nelson		The Demon in the Metal
10		J.P. Valentine		The Nothing Mage
10		Billie Kowalewski		Enlightened
10		Timothy S Currey		Death of the Tree Path
10		Jason A. Holt		Fighter Fred and the Dungeon of Doom
10		Stephen J. Ethier		The Void Revealed
10		Lori Holmes		The Forbidden
10		G.M. White		The Swordsman's Lament
10		David Folker		Relentless
10		Kevin Wright		The Last Benediction in Steel
10		Mark Johnson		The Renegade Within
10		Shaun Paul Stevens		Nether Light +
10		J.T. Williams		Of Shadows and Blood
10		Moud Adel		The Forbidden Warriors
10		Paul J Bennett		Ashes

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