Writer's Grove

Unfettered Anthology

April 13, 2012

This is an Announcement. With a capital A and stuff.

It begins with a spiffy dude named Shawn Speakman. Shawn is a webmaster for several fantasy authors and he also interviews other authors for Suvudu.com and generally makes everyone look good. He’s a groovy guy. Everybody digs him.

Unfortunately, Shawn got slapped with Hodgkin’s lymphoma last year, which scared the heck out of us, but because he’s tough he BEAT THAT SHIT, and that made everyone happy. Anytime you can give cancer the finger it’s a good day. But then he got slapped with a $200K medical bill. Eeek! He hasn’t beat that yet. He’s going to, though. How? All proceeds from UNFETTERED, a very special anthology published by Grim Oak Press, will go to paying off those medical bills. Shawn has lots of author friends, including myself, who are willing to donate stories to this anthology. Who? Only some of the biggest names in fantasy!

Terry Brooks
Patrick Rothfuss
Naomi Novik
Brandon Sanderson
RA Salvatore
Tad Williams
Jacqueline Carey
Daniel Abraham
Peter V. Brett
Robert VS Redick
Peter Orullian
Todd Lockwood
Carrie Vaughn
Blake Charlton
Mark Lawrence
David Anthony Durham
Jennifer Bosworth
Lev Grossman
Steven Erikson
Shawn Speakman

I feel very humbled to be included in such a lineup. I mean…it’s a heck of a lineup. I am agog. Now, these stories might be from familiar worlds, or they might be something totally new; Shawn has put no restrictions on the story content—hence the title, UNFETTERED. My story will be called “The Chapel Perilous,” and it will be an Iron Druid story. Those of you familiar with the Grail romances may recognize where I’m going with this one. I’m having fun with it, especially the research end. Good times reading the Grail stuff! Lots of blood!

UNFETTERED will be published in early 2013. Five hundred super-specially-spiffy editions will be autographed by all the authors. (Squee! I might buy one of those myself!) Shawn is also an author and if you buy the special edition of his book, THE DARK THORN (sample chapters available at Grim Oak Press), then that guarantees you can buy the special signed edition of UNFETTERED.

As you might imagine, you can order your copy of UNFETTERED directly from Grim Oak Press. Hopefully it will also become available through Barnes & Noble, etc. Shawn’s working on that now. I hope you’re as excited about this anthology as I am!

Peace & carrots,
Kevin