The Indie Fantasy Book Club: Recent Episodes
Kate and Orland Bateman
We seek out great indie-published fantasy and discuss magical philosophy. Every week we'll recommend a book and on Monday we'll review it.Join the book club and discover well-written, original, and exciting works of fiction by independent authors.
**Kate and Orland discuss how to respond to voices in your head, where to find dating prospects, and brownies.
Next time's book: Shadow of Theron by Kathryn Troy
By the way, the word is medieval.**
Kate and Orland discuss Will's aversion to romance, the morality of sacrificing one for the many, and snarky voices in our heads. Thank you Will Wight for the great ride!
A couple announcements: First, we apologize for the late release! We will be pushing back our backlog by one month to give each of these books the time they deserve. Second, we are trying out some new audio software after losing our previous tool. So please bear with us while we work through the sound issues.
The book for October: The Wizard's Brew, by Jordan Reed
Kate and Orland discuss ghosts, muscles and romance, and the importance of the right accessories in a 52-card magic system.
A big thank you to everyone who has asked us to review their book or has provided us with book recommendations. We will be covering several of them in the next few months.
Talk to you next time when we chat about Waybound, by Will Wight.
Kate and Orland are joined by their beautiful, opinionated co-host and discuss farming, profound principles, and the benefits of pocket rats.
As a reminder, we are holding a survey of which book from the Cradle series to read during the month of August in honor of Waybound's release (Kate recommends book 12). Let us know your thoughts at indiefantasybookclub@gmail.com
Talk to you next time when we chat about: A Summoner Awakens, by Kerberos
Kate and Orland record a full episode and leave it on their desktop! Whoops.
Kate and Orland vaguely remember discussing something about bunnies... Watership Down? Nah... there was definitely some mention of voids and capes.
The book that we will discuss next is Beware of Chicken, by Casual Farmer
Kate and Orland discuss Jurassic pets, your elderly neighbor, and Pokemon.
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Talk to you next time when we chat about: System Change: A LitRPG Adventure (System Universe Book 1)
Kate and Orland discuss trusting slimeballs in RPGs, living life in a virtual world, and wandering out into the woods by yourself -- safe for titans, not safe for werewolves.
Check out Warwagon on Audible!
Send us recommendations for great books (or decent and entertaining books) at indiefantasybookclub@gmail.com
Next month's book: Apocolypse Tamer by Void Herald
Kate and Orland discuss how many men are necessary in the apocalypse, sturdy ankles, and regulating impossible to regulate magic.
Next Month's Book: Nova Terra Titan series book 1, by Seth Ring (thank you Godfried for the recommendation)
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Kate and Orland discuss the idea of perfection, university ptsd, and the essence of responsibility.
Next Month's Book: Apocalypse Redux Book 1, by Jakob H. Greif
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Kate and Orland discuss dating in the apocalypse, mysteries of the dao, and hatchets vs axes (and what could actually be used to dismember a body).
Next Month's Book: Mark of the Fool by J.M. Clarke.
We want suggestions! If you've written a book that your mom likes, send us the link so we can check it out. indiefantasybookclub@gmail.com
Kate and Orland discuss the woes of double-clicking while editing, the joys of plundering pie, and whether or not you should wait for your Master's remnant.
Consensus: Loved it! Made things relatively tame since we agreed.
Next week: Defiance of the Fall Book 1, by J.F. Brink
You can find Kelpy Bogs' new book: The Warwagon Saga: a litRPG adventure, on Amazon.
Kate and Orland discuss loan sharks, mages who are bad at magic, robotic body parts, and relationships with baggage.
You can find Kate's new book: The Warwagon Saga: a litRPG adventure, on Amazon.
Help end chronic booklessness; check out The Warwagon Saga: Book 1 on Amazon.
To be an Architect is to take risks.
Being kidnapped by the Sentient Computer Overlord of an alien planet and turned into a nymph doesn’t fit into Axel’s life plan, not that he had a plan, but certainly choosing what to do after college wouldn’t be as hard as fighting carnivorous squirrels to the death. At least his new body comes with fabulous hair!
In this fast-paced, light-hearted, litRPG novel, Axel Davis, an apartment dwelling Los Angeleno has the chance to live out a fantasy he never thought possible—leveling up and exploring a magical world full of monsters, dungeons, alchemists, dragons, and cities where swords are normal and acceptable accessories. The only catch is the warlord with a pet tiger, stupidly high charisma, and a bone to pick with Axel.
Preorder now on Amazon
Kate and Orland discuss city building, assassins, and when it is okay to take over someone else's body.
Big thank you to David for next month's book: Minimum Wage Magic, by Rachel Aaron
Orland has a special request: Find us a small press or independent apocalyptic litRPG that he hasn't read yet. Bonus points if it has a romance Kate approves of. Please send suggestions to indiefantasybookclub@gmail.com.
Kate and Orland discuss forgotten ruins, blood cultists, and romance.
Next month's book: Legend of the Arch Magus: The Expansion, by Michael Sisa
Kate has a special request: Find us a small press or independent fantasy that has a solid romance in it. Please send suggestions to indiefantasybookclub@gmail.com.
Kate and Orland discuss saving the world with fungi and multidimensional planes, and also serial dating as a young 1,000-year-old.
Next month's book:
He Who Fights With Monsters: Shirtaloon.
Kate and Orland discuss knights in shining armor, ensemble casts, getting high on Wisdom, and magical insanity.
Next book on June 6th: Wizard's Tower, by Gregory Allanther
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Kate and Orland discuss bringing your parents on your adventure, bad dialogue, and tricking all-powerful beings into paradoxes.
Next week's book: In Another World, I Must Defeat the Demon King, by Miles English
Kate and Orland discuss love polygons, the pros and cons of necromancy, and whether dragons make good presidents.
Consensus: Interesting read with some reservations
Next week: Battlefield Reclaimer, Guardian of Aster Fall Book 1 by David North
Bonus pun: what do you call a government run by a hungry dragon? A dict-EAT-orship.
Kate and Orland discuss the role of spoons, rage, and recompense in a world of cultivation where might makes right.
Consensus: Agree to disagree.
Next week: Accidental Necromancer, by Kelsey Pine
Kate and Orland discuss the pros and cons of arms dealing, nanobots, and poorly planned revolutions in a litRPG alternate universe.
Consensus: Interesting read with some reservations
Next week: Winter Trials, Threads of Fate Book 2 by Michael Head
Kate and Orland discuss time-traveling children, murder cults, and proposing to someone you've just met.
Consensus: we like the book!
Next week: Portal to Nova Roma by J.R. Mathews
Kate and Orland discuss magical appendages, aura types, philosophy of honor, and barbequing enemy spies.
Next week's book: Reincarnation, Threads of Fate book 1 by Michael Head
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Kate and Orland discuss magical inns, the philosophy of oaths of neutrality, and 7 foot tall alien hunks.
The book for next week: Blade of Ghosts, by Julian Gyll
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Kate and Orland discuss the LitRPG Atlas Rising. The jury says guilty of bad grammar, but the judge gives a reduced sentence for good story.
Discussion themes include Virtual Reality, Crafting, Personal Hygiene, Permission Waivers (and whether you should read them. You should.)
Next week's book: Clean Sweep, by Ilona Andrews.
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Kate and Orland discuss the original litRPG book, "Queen in the Mud," including the humor and the struggles surrounding life as a salamanderkin, naming children, and beastkin races.
Next week's book: "Atlas Rising" by Blake Severson.
Kate and Orland take on the difficult task of explaining litRPG to someone who has never heard of it before.
Remember to read Queen in the Mud!
Kate and Orland discuss which litRPG class they would be. The book club finds great works of self-published fantasy literature so that you don't need to wade through the thousands of mediocre books yourself. Save time and money and keep up to date with what the indie community is reading!
Reading for next week will be, Queen in the Mud, by Maari, available on Amazon Kindle and Audible.
Queen in the Mud is a fantastic litRPG (if you haven't read this genre yet, you should) about a human girl who hatches from an egg one day on a fantasy world with no idea how she got there.