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Other books worth highlighting > Unfettered...promising to be one of the best fantasy anthologies of all time.

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Michael (michaeljsullivan) | 347 comments Mod
I'd like to take a minute to mention a new anthology that I hope members of the group will add to their TBR piles.

Unfettered is the brain-child of Terry Brooks who wanted to find a way to help out Shawn Speakman...his website designer who racked up $200,000 in uninsured medical expenses while fighting Hodgkin’s cancer. Terry donated a short story, and other fatnasy authors followed suit. No one is taking an compensation from their stories, all money will go paying off Shawn's bills, and if there is any left over...he'll start a fund to help other authors as well.

The line up for this project is legend. It includes:
Terry Brooks, Patrick Rothfuss, Naomi Novik, Brandon Sanderson, R.A. Salvatore, Tad Williams, Jacqueline Carey, Daniel Abraham, Peter V. Brett, Robert V.S. Redick, Peter Orullian, Todd Lockwood, Carrie Vaughn
Blake Charlton, Kevin Hearne, Mark Lawrence, David Anthony Durham, Jennifer Bosworth, Lev Grossman, Michael J. Sullivan, Eldon Thompson, and Shawn Speakman.

In addition to donating a Royce and Hadrian short story, I'm also going to help Shawn with formatting the ebook.

Current release schedule has the book going live in January. But you can add it to your shelves now: Unfettered. I'm proud to be part of this project, and can only imagine the great stories that will exist between it's pages.


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That's a worthy cause. Ugh. I don't know anything about it, but degenerative diseases are a personal nightmare. I watched one of my family members deal with Parkinson's.


Michael (michaeljsullivan) | 347 comments Mod
@Horace - sorry to hear that.


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Thanks. It can happen to any us. The old saw about your health being everything is true. It certainly gives me a lot of empathy for Speakman, though.

Listening to Lucky Man: Een Memoire by & read by Michael J. Fox is an awesome experience. He's an optimist, but what he's gone through is pretty gruesome. This is one of the few times I'd recommend the audio version over the text. Careful not to get the abridged version, though.


Michael (michaeljsullivan) | 347 comments Mod
Thanks for the Head's up Horace.


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Michael (michaeljsullivan) | 347 comments Mod
Some updates. First, the short story list has come out:


* The Shade of Allanon by Terry Brooks (a Shannara tale)
* Imaginary Friends by Terry Brooks (a precursor to the Word/Void trilogy)
* How Old Holly Came To Be by Patrick Rothfuss
* River of Souls by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson (a Wheel of Time tale)
* The Old Scale Game by Tad Williams
* 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)
* Nocturne by Robert V. S. Redick
* The Sound of Broken Absolutes by Peter Orullian (a Vault of Heaven tale)
* Untitled by Geno & R.A. Salvatore
* Keeper of Memory by Todd Lockwood (a Summer Dragon tale)
* Game of Chance by Carrie Vaughn
* The Lasting Doubts of Joaquin Lopez 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)
* Unbowed by Eldon Thompson (a Legend of Asahiel tale)
* Untitled by Naomi Novik (a Temeraire tale)
* The Jester by Michael J. Sullivan (a Riyria Chronicles tale)
* The Duel by Lev Grossman (a Magicians tale)
* The Unfettered Knight by Shawn Speakman (an Annwn Cycle tale)

Pre-ordering is now open from here!

Last but not least...I've put the finishing touches on my story and really like the way it turned out.



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Jim (jimmaclachlan) Ordered. Congrats on writing the short story to spec. That's got to be tough.


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Amelia (narknon) | 17 comments Just ordered my copy too. I think this is a great cause, plus we get to read some cool new stories too!


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Michael (michaeljsullivan) | 347 comments Mod
The ebook of this is now live - and #4 on the Amazon's Movers and Shaker list. Bet your version at any of these links: Kindle | Nook | Kobo


Michael (michaeljsullivan) | 347 comments Mod
Last night there was an AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the writers, artist, and publiser of Unfettered. If you want to check it out here is a link .


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