What an incredible honor to find The Way of Edan here among such excellent stories! I’m grateful that you gave the book a shot at all, and the fact that you enjoyed it makes me happy. I look forward to your eventual thoughts on books two and three, Chance, and I wish you much fulfillment from your reading and writing in 2025.
@@PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy thank you so much! Edan is calling my name back. A lure I wasn’t quite expecting either! Good luck in the new year-hope to chat more soon
Love to see that you had such an EPIC reading year!! Can't wait to start Sun Eater myself. And oooh yes, all the love for Kristoff, Hobb and Cahill!! And didn't The Book of Astea just creep under your skin?! Definitely gonna make my faves list, what a big surprise! Hope you find many more 5-star faves in 2025 🤩
@@esmayrosalyne book of Astea was suchhh a surprise. Have a big year ahead of me fullll of competition so I’m looking forward to what it brings. And it’s crazy to think how many great reads are behind me
Dude that's a killer list! You gotta keep reading after Imperium, that entire series is incredible, start to finish, I honestly thought it kept getting better with each book.
@@Chance.Dillon I think it's in the book, where Tiro says it, but watching a naturally timid man rise to put his life on the line and defend what is right, time and time again, and defend the Roman republic, is like the most heroic frickin thing I've ever read
Dude, I'm so honoured by the honourable mention!! Awesome video, and it sounds like you had a great year of reading. You completely inspired me to pick up Imperium. I'll be reading it very soon! You know I love seeing Hobb near the top there!
@@ZOMGfantasy imperium was a true shocker. And has such beautifully polished prose. And of course! Riven Earth really kept popping up for me when thinking about top reads this past year
@@elbertw 😂😂 thanks for coming along to hang out Elbert! Grateful that’s something you’d think could happen for me-I really just hope to immerse people in stories that have greatly affected me. Cheers to coming reads
@@TomOrange yeah! Ashes doesn’t get a lotta love. But to me to me it truly is a standout as to where Hadrian’s character ends up going. stoked to hear your thoughts when the time comes
@ I’m glad to hear it has helped! I just read Chapter 1 of “The Before” before going to bed and I loved it. Excited to continue and let you know what I think! Thanks for sending it!
I so hardly agree on "The Heroes "being the best one. At least better than "Better served cold". This is the selling point for me to subscribe, after watching your interview with John, from Talking story
Are you going to have someone line-edit your novel? At least with me, the line edit was the most important part which made my novel three times better.
@Chance.Dillon I would be curious at the end to how much this all cost you. My manuscript is only 80k. Three thousand dollars for everything for this project. I am pretty stubborn. My book cover is probably considered a bad one, but it stands out. It reminds me of a standard 1970's or 80's cover, kind of a beat looking cover. It cost me 300 dollars and I'm sure I could have gotten a more contemporary cover for less on Reedsy, but I don't like that stuff. Sometimes standing out from the rest can be good or bad. I am stuck with it now, anyways. Feeling bad about no Kindle Unlimited hits, where I had 500 page reads from a short story a year and a half ago with a Generic Kindle cover creator cover. A week after the news broke about Kindle Covers to be associated with AI, and the KU reads stopped. I was hoping to have a repeat of that, with a better Cover, Blurb, and everything. Nope. I never really expected this novel to do anything. I was excited by my editor's feedback. I am just waiting for it to get into some reviewer's hands. I can't wait to see what they think. What's impeding that is Ingram Spark. 23 days and still not printed yet. We will see how wise the decision was for me to debut the novel solely as a Hardback for a few months. Probably a decision about as dumb as me enjoying old-school cover styles.
What an incredible honor to find The Way of Edan here among such excellent stories! I’m grateful that you gave the book a shot at all, and the fact that you enjoyed it makes me happy. I look forward to your eventual thoughts on books two and three, Chance, and I wish you much fulfillment from your reading and writing in 2025.
@@PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy thank you so much! Edan is calling my name back. A lure I wasn’t quite expecting either! Good luck in the new year-hope to chat more soon
Love to see that you had such an EPIC reading year!! Can't wait to start Sun Eater myself. And oooh yes, all the love for Kristoff, Hobb and Cahill!! And didn't The Book of Astea just creep under your skin?! Definitely gonna make my faves list, what a big surprise!
Hope you find many more 5-star faves in 2025 🤩
@@esmayrosalyne book of Astea was suchhh a surprise. Have a big year ahead of me fullll of competition so I’m looking forward to what it brings. And it’s crazy to think how many great reads are behind me
Amazing list Chance! Loved seeing King and McCarthy on the list!
@valliyarnl yesss… I think I need to dive back into McCarthy here soon or reread the road. Perhaps just get to no country for old men
So close to 1K subs, brother - and I'm here for it! :)
Hobbs - you can't go wrong with Fitz!
Great choices all around!
@@TedReadInstead thanks Ted!! And yes-Hobb is such a delight to read
Dude that's a killer list! You gotta keep reading after Imperium, that entire series is incredible, start to finish, I honestly thought it kept getting better with each book.
@@AReadersJourney okay-That’s what I love to hear. I’m already sold 😂😂 honestly it’s been calling me back
@@Chance.Dillon I think it's in the book, where Tiro says it, but watching a naturally timid man rise to put his life on the line and defend what is right, time and time again, and defend the Roman republic, is like the most heroic frickin thing I've ever read
What a first year on the tubes!!
@@Talking_Story it has truly been awesome. Grateful you got my ass to pick up the phone and record
@@Chance.Dillon so happy you did!
Dude, I'm so honoured by the honourable mention!!
Awesome video, and it sounds like you had a great year of reading.
You completely inspired me to pick up Imperium. I'll be reading it very soon!
You know I love seeing Hobb near the top there!
@@ZOMGfantasy imperium was a true shocker. And has such beautifully polished prose. And of course! Riven Earth really kept popping up for me when thinking about top reads this past year
Happy Christmas ❤
@@ralphjenkins1507 and to you as well!!! Thanks for always coming through
ohhh i love every book you mentioned. here before you get super famous :))
@@elbertw 😂😂 thanks for coming along to hang out Elbert! Grateful that’s something you’d think could happen for me-I really just hope to immerse people in stories that have greatly affected me. Cheers to coming reads
Awesome list my friend, I really gotta fit in those Vampire books now that he announced book 3 dropping late next year 😅
GET THIS MAN TO 1000 SUBS 🎉
@@NerdLevelRising hahahha I think it happened dude! And yes-I will read along with the 2nd book whenever you do it
Great list man! Kind of nice to see someone pick a different Suneater book as their favorite lol.
@@TomOrange yeah! Ashes doesn’t get a lotta love. But to me to me it truly is a standout as to where Hadrian’s character ends up going. stoked to hear your thoughts when the time comes
I loved the Red Rising saga.
Awesome top 10 and update! Excited to see how things are moving along with the writing!
@@N.A.Summur yes N.A. Thanks for the feedback-what you gave helped a ton.
@ I’m glad to hear it has helped! I just read Chapter 1 of “The Before” before going to bed and I loved it. Excited to continue and let you know what I think! Thanks for sending it!
@ of course. I’m grateful you’re taking time at all
@@Chance.Dillon of course, dude!
I so hardly agree on "The Heroes "being the best one. At least better than "Better served cold".
This is the selling point for me to subscribe, after watching your interview with John, from Talking story
Wait, Chance did my ears deceive me or did you say you read Fourth Wing this year?
You sir are a man of very diverse taste and I respect that. Hahaha
@@iSamwise who me?!? Did I?! I had no idea… no idea at all
Can u tell me which are your favourite Malazan books?Thank You!!! ☺️
@@noname3609 bigggg deadhouse gates guy. The ending just totally landed for me
Are you going to have someone line-edit your novel? At least with me, the line edit was the most important part which made my novel three times better.
@@momo_genX yes! A copy editor will run through it and then I have 2 proofreaders qued up as well. Very excited!
@Chance.Dillon I would be curious at the end to how much this all cost you. My manuscript is only 80k. Three thousand dollars for everything for this project.
I am pretty stubborn. My book cover is probably considered a bad one, but it stands out. It reminds me of a standard 1970's or 80's cover, kind of a beat looking cover. It cost me 300 dollars and I'm sure I could have gotten a more contemporary cover for less on Reedsy, but I don't like that stuff.
Sometimes standing out from the rest can be good or bad. I am stuck with it now, anyways. Feeling bad about no Kindle Unlimited hits, where I had 500 page reads from a short story a year and a half ago with a Generic Kindle cover creator cover. A week after the news broke about Kindle Covers to be associated with AI, and the KU reads stopped. I was hoping to have a repeat of that, with a better Cover, Blurb, and everything. Nope.
I never really expected this novel to do anything. I was excited by my editor's feedback. I am just waiting for it to get into some reviewer's hands. I can't wait to see what they think. What's impeding that is Ingram Spark. 23 days and still not printed yet. We will see how wise the decision was for me to debut the novel solely as a Hardback for a few months. Probably a decision about as dumb as me enjoying old-school cover styles.
Is there something wrong with what Rebecca Yarros writes that you don't want your followers to know you read her?
@@radudumanovschi3387 Nope not at all
@@radudumanovschi3387 and I would argue that they know now !
Obligatory comment hyping Disquiet Gods
@@iSamwise hahahaha so excited