Advent Dec 3rd 2024

Advent Dec 3rd 2024

Welcome to Day One of our Indie Fantasy Advent Calendar! Weโ€™re featuring an underrated indie author every day this holiday season to spread a little festive joy and promote authors we think deserve more love. Read our introduction to find out more.

Letโ€™s open day three and see what book lies behindโ€ฆ

Today, on December 3rd, weโ€™re opening our calendar to However Many Must Die by Phil Williams.

Wild Wish was trained to do one kill.

Saved from a lonely backwater existence by a global war, Wish couldnโ€™t believe her luck when she got into the Blood Scouts. Now she gets to share tents with an all-female platoon of night-stalking, giant-slaying, boat-sinking, battle-swaying legends in the making.

The problem is, they keep dying.

And theyโ€™ve been given their worst assignment yet.

The enemy Dread Corps are combining magics deep within the nightmare lands of Low Slane, to unleash a weapon that could sway the entire war. Itโ€™s up to the Blood Scouts to stop them โ€“ with a journey that gets more dangerous with every step.

Far behind enemy lines, death hangs in the air. Monsters lurk around every corner.

Are Wishโ€™s skills โ€“ and positive attitude โ€“ enough to keep her Blood Scouts alive?

Or will the cost of survival finally break her?

Get ready for the first epic entry in a new series, and a new world, of dark military fantasy from Phil Williams. Start reading today!

However Many Must Die is a military fantasy that came very close to becoming a SPFBO finalist this year. In fact, it was named a Senlin, which is basically an honorary finalist in my mind! Despite the heaping of praise this book has earned, itโ€™s still not received the rating and reviews it deserves.

In fact, Phil has been quite prolific in his writing career, with many of his books reaching the SPFBO semi-finals, yet he remains criminally underrated. His urban fantasy, Dyer Street Punk Witches, is another criminally underrated book. Not only is Phil a fantastic author, but heโ€™s also lovely, and definitely deserves more attention.

Check out However Many Must Die. I promise you wonโ€™t be disappointed:

About the Author

Phil Williams is an author of fantasy and dystopian fiction, including the Ordshaw contemporary fantasy thrillers and the post-apocalyptic Estalia series. He also writes bestselling reference books to help foreign learners master English. Phil lives with his wife by the coast in Sussex, UK, and spends a great deal of time walking his impossibly fluffy dog, Herbert.

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