Authors you love that no one seems to have heard about

[Megana Vallentin]

The fantasy artist Nene Thomas and her husband recently started publishing books about all the the characters that Nene has been painting for years. I wasn't sure if they'd be good...I mean, she can paint, but can she/they write? But other than some ridiculously crazy names, the first book was actually really good. A nice complex story that might appeal to WoT fans. I have the second book on my shelf waiting for me to get through my reading pile.

 

[Kassina Tendar]

I'm really enjoying the Dagger and the Coin series by Daniel Abraham. There are only 2 books out so far with the 3rd expected next spring I believe, but I love it! It's character-driven fantasy with a very unique world including lots of races (none of which are the classic elves, dwarves, etc.), great story-telling and just a fascinating world/history that I want to learn more about! It's also different in that it's a fantasy novel with (essentially) the fate of the world at stake, but without a focus on battles. There are fights, but they're few and far between. Politics and character relationships are much more the focus. I hadn't heard about it until I bought The Expanse by James S.A. Corey and the 1st book of Dagger and the Coin was included for free in the back of the first volume. I love it, though, and can't wait for the 3rd volume to come out!

 

[Dart Marouvin]

I love Hugh Howdy, and "Wool." I actually think he's becoming quite popular these days.


Walter Moses is popular in Germany, but Americans never seem to know him. China Mieville is widely regarded as good author but nobody on forums ever geeks out over him :-/ Life is hard, obviously

 

[Axis m'Troutilas]

Terry goodkind is far from forgotten, he just hasn't written much new, I think- but one author few people I know have heard of that is just a rockstar of urban fantasy fun is Kevin Hearne- he has been doing the Iron Druid series, and I couldn't love it, or him, more!

Word on the street is that the new one is pretty good.


I'm in the middle of a SoT reread at the moment, I'll have to pick it up when I roll through to the end.

 

[Aleyn'e Anty'ne]

I agree with you Axis Gaidin, I think Kevin Hearne is a awesome author, " Trapped" was released this month, and is excellent.

 

[Roheryn ni Galghandhrei t'al'Djinn]

This ties in here, but I didn't want to start a whole new thread...

While Mercedes Lackey is a fairly well known author, no one seems to have heard of her SERRAted Edge series... I found them over the summer and I LOVE them!

 

[Ty al'Djinn]

Is that the one with drag racing elves?

 

[Roheryn ni Galghandhrei t'al'Djinn]

Yes, SERRAted Edge is all about race car driving elves with a few human mages thrown in.

 

[Ty al'Djinn]

That's epic.
I need to give it a try.

 

[Agwenia Al'Sehrar]

A Danish author called Lene Kaaberbøl. She wrote the shamers series which I loved! But haven't met any foreigners who have heard of her

 

[Ty al'Djinn]

Have her books been translated into English?

 

[Taika Vinh]

According to Wikipedia, some of them are, she translates them herself. I've never heard about her, though.

 

[Freyra al'Tiri]

I think they are released in norwegian. I haven't read them though

 

[Rijomu Sezain]

Some of her books have been translated into Finnish. I haven't read them and can't remember any names.

 

[Ealandrelle Melyma]

Ooh drag-racing elves sounds good! I like Mercedes Lackey so will have to look them up.

I really like a kid's/young adult author called Tamora Pierce, but apart from the friend who introduced her books to me I've never met anyone else who likes her. She wrote a 3 series of quartets (and then I think 2 more books later) set in a medieval fantasy world. The first set covers a girl's desire to become a Knight (which is forbidden), the second set deals with a girl who discovers she has magical abilities with animals, and the 3rd set comes back to the Knight issue again. I still go back and read them now, even though they are "kid's" books, because they're just so well-written.

 

[Roheryn ni Galghandhrei t'al'Djinn]

The first one is Born to Run

and I LOVE Tamora Pierce! Although you're missing some of my FAVORITE books.
She wrote a duet about Alanna and George's daughter who ends up fighting for the natives of the Copper Islands and her most recent trilogy set two hundred years before the SotL quartet, about one of George's ancestors who is a Provost's Dog, a.k.a. a cop.

 

[Kassina Tendar]

I love Tamora Pierce! I read some of her books in High School and really enjoyed them! I have a few friends in real life who really like her as well.

 

[Ealandrelle Melyma]

I did mention that she did 2 more books after the last quartet I remembered they were about Alanna's daughter, but I've not read them (as for some reason they were difficult to get over here - something about a publisher argument?) so didn't want to give a precis when I didn't really know much

I swear that my friend and I seem like the only people of our generation in my area who have even heard of Tamora Pierce - it's great to hear that others like her

 

[Megana Vallentin]

Yeah! The two Trickster books and the Beka Cooper series are some of my faves!

 

[Zimone Zarasri]

Both Lene Kaaberböl and Tamora Pierce are quite well-known I thought? Or at least among my friends I read them both when I was little!