“The Worm Ouroborous” by E.R Edison; how could anyone leave this off a list of the best Fantasy novels?

The “Renshai” series by Mickey Z Reichert; second book in the series in particular.

Of course there are still issues, e.g. some self pub writers may not take their quality control that seriously, which tars everyone with the poorly edited/produced brush. At the moment the traditional publishing industry has what appears to be an unbeatable supply chain and economy of scale. I may be wrong, of course, but it leaves me concerned that on my own I don’t have enough time to both market my work and make it profitable, and write more.

Have you explored the self pub route?

I only recently got into what’s considered fantasy about 2 years ago. always considered myself a hardcore SF fan. But I LOVE mythology. I read mythology textbooks for fun, one of my favorite movies is the original Clash of the Titans, my favorite part of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods was looking everyone up on Wikipedia to find the myths.

Once I realized how intertwined mythology and fantasy are, fantasy stories were easy to get into.

Unless we want every piece of media we have to be ‘virtual’ and sell or burn our bookshelves and CD towers we need to support the printed word and the pressed silver disc.

Having said that, the end of both is, I think, inevitable due to environmental concerns/constraints. I have close to 1000 CD’s at home. If I were just starting to build a collection and could have that amount of music in a high quality format and save all those materials, I think I’d do it. Granted with books it’s slightly different but with the way Kindle and i-Pads have taken off, not everyone will keep shelves of books.

Maybe authors wouldn’t want them to… If, eager to air their ‘green’ credentials, people buy books secondhand, the author won’t see a penny. In that case, an online/downloadable book is a more palatable option.