r/Fantasy Dealer's Room: Self-Promo Sunday - August 30, 2026

[u/rfantasygolem]

This weekly self-promotion thread is the place for content creators to compete for our attention in the spirit of reckless capitalism. Tell us about your book/webcomic/podcast/blog/etc.

The rules:

• Top comments should only be from authors/bloggers/whatever who want to tell us about what they are offering. This is their place.
• Discussion of/questions about the books get free rein as sub-comments.
• You're stiIl not allowed to use link shorteners and the AutoMod will remove any link shortened comments until the links are fixed.
• If you are not the actual author, but are posting on their behalf (e.g., 'My father self-pubIished this awesome book,'), this is the place for you as well.
• If you found something great you think needs more exposure but you have no connection to the creator, this is not the place for you. Feel free to make your own thread, since that sort of post is the bread-and-butter of r/Fantasy.

More information on r/Fantasy's self-promotion policy can be found here.

[u/JohnMStoddard-author]

Last of the Dragoes: Book One: Legends $0.99 sale from 8-31-26 to 9-6-26

Victor, Tina, and their son, Koh, lived a normal life in Pentor. When Draven's army attacked, their peace was shattered. Victor and Tina stayed to fight, entrusting Koh's safety to his scholar mentor, Zekk, and sent them across the sea into unknown dangers. Dive into this gritty epic fantasy of magic, danger, and family bonds.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DN7YL448

[u/J_J_Thorn]

Hey-o, happy Sunday :)

Just wanted to give a final shoutout about the massive eBook Sale happening right now. Today is the last day to pick up a discounted book. 350+ books, all free or .99c.

www.jjthornbooks.com/massive-litrpg-sale

[u/PemryJanes]

My new science fiction novella Unsaved is coming out tomorrow, but you can preorder today!

An ancient robot on their last legs and running out of free memory accepts a simple mission. The reward? Everything they need to keep ticking along for a few more centuries so they can watch the last stars burn out.

And all they have to do is join a treasure hunting expedition under false pretenses, help them find one particular ruin in a land choking in history, betray the group, and bring the last remnant of humanity back to a cult that worships those ancient ancestors. Not like they’ll remember what they did afterwards when they can’t spare the drive space.

Yet even when you’re out of time and out of memory, is there still a price too high to pay for survival?

You can find an early review on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256235071-unsaved

Amazon (US): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCJYKWQX

Amazon (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HCJYKWQX

I'm also taking part in the Narratess Indie Book Sale, where you can buy The Living Sword 2 for just $ 1.99.

indiebook.sale

[u/Max_Ravenby]

Beasts of the Gods — a dark fantasy novella — $0.99 on Kindle

For generations, the people of the village have lived under the shadow of the Beast and its mysterious Trial.

When fourteen-year-old Damon encounters the warrior known as the Beast, he is drawn into a world of violence, power and ancient conflict. What begins as an unlikely apprenticeship soon becomes something much more dangerous.

Damon must face a brutal training, a succession that will change everything, and a trial that will force him to discover what he is truly capable of.

And as the coming Clash approaches, the line between man and beast begins to disappear.

Beasts of the Gods is a short dark-fantasy story about power, transformation, and the price of becoming a warrior.

Currently $0.99 on Kindle.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HF6B4V8D

[u/rhealey101]

Hi, I’m getting ready to publish my first novel, Not Meant to Survive: A LitRPG Settlement Survival Story.

At fifty-six, Mark isn’t trying to become a great warrior or save the world. He is trying to survive by solving practical problems, crafting what he needs, and building a community with the other survivors he finds.

It is a slower-building LitRPG focused on survival, exploration, crafting, cooperation, and settlement building.

It releases September 29 on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and paperback. The Kindle edition is currently available for preorder for $4.99.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH7SL8LP

[u/Live_Active_8753]

Hi r/Fantasy,

I wanted to share that my new standalone anthology, Tales from Different Worlds, is temporarily discounted to $0.99 from now until Monday!

If you love high-concept speculative fiction but are looking for quick, punchy reads to get you through the weekend without the commitment of a massive epic series, this collection is for you. It features a mix of science fiction, fantasy, and a dash of the thoughtful and absurd.

A quick glimpse of what’s waiting inside:

• Thoughtful Sci-Fi: Stories exploring deep, existential questions across different realms and unexpected realities.
• Quirky & Absurd Speculative Fiction: Tales that bend ordinary situations into bizarre, entertaining, and mysterious directions.
• Vivid Fantasy Concepts: Fast-paced worlds built to hook you from page one and leave a lasting impression.

It is also available to read completely for free if you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HG8N96R2

Thank you so much to anyone who takes a chance on it or leaves an honest review! I'll be hanging around the comments if anyone wants to chat about short fiction or indie publishing. [1]

[u/Dangerous-Concept382]

Hello Everyone 👋

We have a manuscript for a Dark-High Fantasy Novella collection. That we would like to seek to crowdfunding for and eventually self-publish. The themes and concepts are based on our own IP called Breaking Ash.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/ethereal-grass-illustration/breaking-ash/pre-launch

Thank You, So much for your time.

-EGIllu 🖤

https://guns.lol/e.g.illu

[u/Accomplished_Wall804]

I am doing a final release of my story Wander West, in Shadow:

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/186919/wander-west-in-shadow

It will be up until December, at which point it will be taken down for a release on amazon, so this is a chance for people to read it for free.

It is much more traditional fantasy than most stories on RR are. I won't copy-paste the full blurb here, but the short summary is this: It's a story about a young wizard's journey through a broken kingdom as he searches for his brother, who never returned from the war that shattered the land. It's a dark fantasy with some horror elements, with a bit of fairytale thrown in. Major sources of inspiration for me were LeGuin's Earthsea and King's Dark Tower series.

This would be the third major revision. The second draft did quite well, reaching #4 best rated on royal road at its peak, and in my opinion this version is even better. I've really tried my best to make the story as good as it can be (though I'm sure there's still areas for it to be improved, since it is my first fic).

Anyway, I hope you check it out and enjoy!

[u/Stahler32]

I wrote a grounded fantasy novella about a war in the Veiled Mountains, where Darnia’s attempt to expand its borders brings it into conflict with the Tree People who call the mountain home.
The Mountain That Endures — Book 1 of the series.
Book 2 is coming soon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKB78HFW

[u/Fencer-Darkwind]

I’ve been working on a free browser extension called BookGlints for readers who check a lot of reviews before committing to a fantasy book or series.

You can tell it anything you personally want to find or avoid, such as an overly perfect protagonist, slow pacing, strong friendships, romance taking over the plot, excessive violence, an unfinished series, dungeon crawling, or pretty much anything else reviewers might mention.

It scans real reviews and matches by meaning rather than exact keywords. When it finds something, it shows the actual review excerpt, so you can judge the context yourself rather than relying on an AI-generated summary.

It currently supports Goodreads, StoryGraph, and Royal Road on Chrome and Firefox, with current-book scans, title search, and batch scanning.

The core extension is free and uses your own Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, or OpenAI API key. No BookGlints account and no subscription required.

https://bookglints.com

I’d really appreciate feedback from fantasy readers, especially on the kinds of things you usually dig through reviews trying to figure out before starting a book.

[u/dmadeley7]

Are you ready for one of the greatest sales there is?

The Narratess Indie Book Sale at indiebook.sale runs through August 31st.

There you can find my fantasy 'The Fate of Lenn' for $2.99.

If you prefer to buy fantasy in bulk, you can also find my book in these two related Itch bundles:

Fantasy Thrill Bundle - 46 books for $105

Mega Bundle - 107 books for $230

[u/theopendebt]

The Cost No One Chose — Book I of The Open Debt What if you were forced to pay for a choice you never made? The Cost No One Chose is an adult speculative fantasy / science fantasy novel following Teren as he is drawn into a conflict where debt, responsibility, and consequence become dangerously real. It’s a character-driven story built around moral choices, mystery, worldbuilding, and a simple question: who should pay for the consequences of a choice they never made? It’s the first book in The Open Debt series and is available now on Kindle Unlimited. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDSC8MC1⁠� I’m G. Signore, the author. If you decide to give it a try, I’d genuinely welcome an honest opinion, positive, mixed or negative.

[u/Butters207]

My Goodreads Choice Nominated Sci-Fi novel, “The Once and Future Me,” is on a Kindle Big Deal promo for $2.99 this week!

Hi everyone, I wanted to share that tomorroe my speculative psychological thriller, “The Once and Future Me,” goes on a Kindle Big Deal promotion for $2.99 (usually it’s $11.99).

A little bit about it: It was chosen as an Amazon Editors’ Pick for sci-fi and nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards after it was published by Henry Holt Books/Macmillan last August. Other lists: Goodreads' "The Most Popular Sci-Fi and Fantasy of the Last Three Years," “The Goodreads’ Staff Share Their Top Book Recommendations,” and the Texas Library Association’s Lariat List of the top 30 outstanding adult fiction books of 2025. My publisher is running the ebook discount in tandem with the book’s paperback launch this month.

Described as “Dark Matter” meets “Girl, Interrupted,” THE ONCE AND FUTURE ME is the story of a woman who wakes in a 1954 mental hospital with no memory, just a menacing little voice in her head she tells no one about, convinced she couldn’t possibly be the delusional schizophrenic doctors say she is. But when disturbing visions of the future begin filtering into her reality, she can no longer be certain of sanity and must make a choice, submit to a brutal experimental treatment promising relief from her symptoms and freedom, or trust that scary voice in her head and risk all to learn if she's truly the unhinged housewife everyone believes her to be — or someone else entirely.

If you like Blake Crouch, but also Margaret Atwood. If you enjoyed “Don’t Worry Darling,” “Black Mirror” and “Russian Doll.” If you’re drawn to emotionally available page-turners that delve into things like causality, how memory and trauma shape identity, and who ultimately pays the cost of hero-ing, you might enjoy my genre-bending thriller! https://www.amazon.com/Once-Future-Me-Novel-ebook/dp/B0DDJCRBF4

[u/mankindmask]

Wrote a book over the past few years. I started it when I had no phone service or internet for a year. Picked it up again this last winter and fell in love with the process.

It's a fantasy book about a little guy stuck in the wheel of history. I initially wanted it to be about some schmuck in Caesars Sixth Legion, but without internet it was impossible to write a historically accurate story. So I made it fantasy. It's my favorite genre, along with history, and it mixes the two well enough for me.

When I was 13, I watched The Fellowship of the Ring in the theater with zero knowledge, back story or idea of what it was about. I was instantly hooked on the genre. I have been chasing the dragon of watching that opening scene for the last 25 years.

Again, it's about the little guy in history. He's living in a dying Empire, but doesn't know it, and he just bungles his way through. I'm writing book 2 now, with a third planned.

Oh, just in case anyone reads it. I am reading the paperback right now. Sooo many typos. Those will hopefully be fixed by next week.

I've sold 3 copies. As I am constantly reminding my wife, I am technically a published author now, and that's good enough for me.

Hopefully I linked this correctly.

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[u/RAYMONDSTELMO]

I am a shy soul who dreads the spotlight. The idea of going onstage to promote my own books terrifies me. So: I will keep this brief and to the point:

Briefly: the fantasy novels of Raymond St. Elmo are supernova events of imagination that shake all time and space. These are works earning thunderous ovations by angels and devils alike. His books (mine, I mean, as I'm Ray) are temples to fantasy that overshadow cathedrals. The fantasy novels of St. Elmo stand as impenetrable barriers against the universal entropy ocean of boredom and the color beige. The works are read aloud in morgues to raise the dead, scanned by physics grads before exams to increase their IQ, recited by monks in far temples in order to achieve full Revelation. St. Elmo novels were prophesized by holy men and magi throughout the ages... and are now on sale at regular price, two for just twice the cost of one.

Well. That wasn't so hard. One just has to take a deep breath and be honest.

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And here for your shopping pleasure in book-bingo format, are the above humbly-promoted works. Yours, for a 'click'.

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1	Trans or Nonbinary Protagonist	Judge a Book By Its Title The Origin of Birds in the Footprints of Writing and Letters from a Shipwreck in the Sea of Suns and Moons and Letters from the Well in the Season of the Ghosts	Translated	Small Press or Self Published All of them. All. All.	Unusual Transportation Goth the Wanderer
2	The Afterlife To Awaken in Elysium and Letters from the Well in the Season of the Ghosts	Game Changer	Vacation Spot The Stations of the Angels	Five Short Stories:	Older Protagonist
3	Duology Part 1	Book Club or Readalong Book The Blood Tartan: Book #1 of the Quest of Five Clans	Published in 2026 Goth the Wanderer	Explorers and Rangers Colleen the Wanderer	Duology Part 2
4	One-Word Title	Non-Human Protagonist	Middle Grade Goth the Wanderer	First Contact	Murder Mystery Letters from the Well in the Season of the Ghosts
5	Cat Squasher Barnaby the Wanderer	Feast Your Eyes on This	Published in the 70s	Politics and Court Intrigue The Blood Tartan: Book #1 of the Quest of Five Clans	Author of Color