Helping You Discover Indie
This is a collection of indie/self-published friendly bloggers and content creators who review, feature, or otherwise promote indie authors. Please visit and support these wonderful folk who donate their time shouting about indie books. If you’re looking for more fantasy indie books, then these have all the recommendations you need!
Are you a blogger or content creator that supports indies and want to be added to this list? Contact us!
Note for Authors: While some of these may be open to reviewing indie books, please don’t approach them unsolicited! Always check their submission policy first and never slide into their DM’s unless invited.
Book Bloggers
- Armed With a Book
- Before We Go Blog
- Beneath a Thousand Skies
- Behind the Pages
- Book & Nature Professor
- Booknest
- FanFi Addict
- Fantasy Book Critic
- Fantasy Book Nerd
- Fantasy Faction
- Indycritic
- JamReads
- Lynn’s Book Blog
- Narratess
- Out of This World SFF
- Queen’s Book Asylum
- Sadie’s Spotlight
- SFF Insiders
- Spells & Spaceships
- Sue’s Musings
- Tiny Elf Arcanist
- The Critiquing Chemist
- The Fantasy Hive
- The Fantasy Inn
- The Shaggy Shepherd
- Weatherwax Report
- Witty and Sarcastic Bookclub
Book Tube
- A Fictional Escapist
- Andrew’s Wizardly Reads
- Becky M
- Bookborn
- Covers with Cassidy
- Dominish Books
- Hobbit Hole Books
- Kay’s Hidden Shelf
- Lisa Does Life
- Lore & Lullabies
- Maed Between the Pages
- Not So Secret Bookaholic
- Petrik Leo
- Portable Magic
- The Fantasy Files Podcast
- The Literary Apothecary
- The Nerd Book Review
- ToriTalks
Indie Communities
- Indie Accords: A Discord server for fans of indie books
- Indie Book Spotlight: A Discord server for indie authors that promote many indie books
- Indie Fantasy Addicts: A popular Facebook group
- SPFBO Community Discord Server: The unofficial SPFBO group hosts monthly readalongs
- WriteHive: A writing community with indie authors and a Discord server
Other Websites
- Indie Bites: A quarterly indie fantasy anthology that publishes online magazines featuring stories from indie authors
- Indie Story Geek: A book database similar to Goodreads but for indie books
- Rob J. Hayes’s Self-Published Releases: Every month, Rob releases a list of self-published books coming out on his blog
Podcasts
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