Ben Spencer - Author

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Many Savage Moons is a semifinalist in the 2023 Kindle Book Awards contest in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy category. Finalist decision still pending.

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Many Savage Moons made a top five list! Check out the writeup over on Epic Indie.

EPIC team member Eryn Mcconnell lists her top 5 indie fantasy books for self published author appreciation week. — EPIC This week is self-published author appreciation week (bit of a mouthful) so to that end we here at team EPIC have decided to each list our top 5 Indie fantasy and sci-fi books. Some of these you might recognize and others they’ll probably be the first time you’ve ever heard of them. However, thi...

I have a fantasy newsletter that I publish over on Substack for anyone interested. The newsletter focuses on my writing inspirations, updates on works-in-progress, and general thoughts about fantasy literature.

Ben Spencer Writes | Substack Ben Spencer writes fantasy fiction. But did you know that Ben Spencer also writes about writing fantasy fiction? Click to read Ben Spencer Writes, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago.

This particular sentence in Many Savage Moons isn't necessarily representative of the novel, but I've always loved it: "He watched as her face relaxed and her eyes contracted into mellow pools, and only then did he turn, expecting to see some innocuous character but instead laying eyes on one of the largest human beings he had ever seen, a colossal demigod of a man wearing a sleeveless T-shirt and cargo shorts while sporting a beard that called to mind Kris Kringle if the jolly old elf had survived a stint in a Siberian gulag."

Thanks to everyone who has picked up a copy of Many Savage Moons. I'm forever grateful to those of you who feel inspired to leave a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads. They go a long way in bringing the book to the attention of new readers!

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I made a youtube video! Check out the top five reasons why you should pick up my urban fantasy novel, Many Savage Moons.

Top Five Reasons to Read Many Savage Moons! The top five reasons to read Ben Spencer's urban fantasy novel, Many Savage Moons.

Here are a few of my favorite comments from Goodreads reviews of Many Savage Moons thus far.

"Ben Spencer creates a thrilling landscape that is vibrant, rich, and alive..."

"I have a book hangover from this one! It's dark, it's so multi-layered, and it has beautiful prose."

"I loved this book. Got sucked into the storyline right away, and it held my interest. Definitely going to look for more of his work."

Be sure to pick up a copy of Many Savage Moons. A purchase link is in the first comment box.

https://www.amazon.com/Many-Savage-Moons-Ben-Spencer/dp/1732038031/

The Deer King (The Deer King, #1)

Reviews for The Deer King are adding up on Goodreads. Check them out if you get the chance.

goodreads.com One girl. A reincarnated war god. The chance to stop the carnage before it begins. Emmaline Rain’s father is the Stoneman. His responsib...

The Deer King: Novella One

amazon.com One girl. A reincarnated war god. The chance to stop the carnage before it begins.Emmaline Rain’s father is the Stoneman. His responsibility: travel into Massaporan lands and end the life of the reincarnated Massaporan deity—the Deer King—the instant he is born. But when he f...

The Brick Mason's Sons is now available at Park Road Books in Charlotte. Be sure to pick up a copy if you live in the area.

The Brick Mason's Sons

The Brick Mason's Sons is now available! Pick up a paperback or Kindle e-book on Amazon.

amazon.com Red Alexander’s sons believe they know him. He is a quick-tempered brick mason, a truth-bending baseball addict, and, in the eyes of his two eldest sons—Dale and Brett—a justly convicted killer. Only younger brother Scott knows the truth about the defining event that shaped a...

More Advance Praise for The Brick Mason's Sons:

“The cocksure fathers and sons and brothers in Spencer’s book play like Piedmont-bred descendants of Larry McMurtry’s bull-headed boys in Horseman, Pass By. And where McMurtry’s ornery Texans hide their tensions in bar fights and bull rides, Spencer’s men bind their lives up in the baseballs and basketballs that so often stand in for southern pride. They’re real men of quiet desperation, with private pathos literally written on their skin.” —Stephen Brower, Easy Sound Recording Co.

Advance Praise for The Brick Mason's Sons:

Ben Spencer’s The Brick Mason’s Sons is a slice of Americana we’ve needed for a long time. It’s an honest family portrait, one that digs deep into generations of our culture and dissects our jigsaw puzzle piece-by-piece, member-by-member. Spencer’s prose is as firmly rooted in realism as it is fantastical, stringing together both the hard, cold facts and surreal symbolism in a way that is beautiful, elegant, and so very humanizing. When we read The Brick Mason’s Sons, we’re glimpsing our friends, our relatives, and ourselves, and we’re seeing each one through each other’s eyes. The result is an objective view of our family, of Americana, of the world and all its working innards through the national pastime of baseball. With each swing of the bat, we see the grime and the machinery all around us, and we know where both came from.

The Brick Mason’s Sons is a must-read for anyone looking to delve deep and understand humanity. It’s an adventure into the wounded soul, a quest for the life force we call “spirit.” Ben Spencer is Prometheus reborn, bringing down that fire to once again purify us all from darkness.

--Scott Waldyn, editor-in-chief of Literary Orphans

The Brick Mason's Sons. October 17th.

Coming this fall from Knock-Knee Books: The Brick Mason's Sons by Ben Spencer.
Red Alexander’s sons believe they know him. He is a quick-tempered brick mason, a truth-bending baseball addict, and, in the eyes of his two eldest sons—Dale and Brett—a justly convicted killer. Only younger brother Scott knows the truth about the defining event that shaped all of their lives. Now, as the brothers struggle to become adults, they confront the father who for so long has worked to hold the family together by manipulating his sons’ perceptions of the past.

I've changed the Temperance Unraveling page to a page promoting my new publishing company, Knock-Knee Books. More info to come over the next few months.

I've been quiet on this page for some time so I thought I'd give a quick update. The Brick Mason's Sons is still out at a number of independent presses and contests. By this summer I hope to have a definitive answer as to whether or not the book will find a publisher. If I am unable to find a publisher I plan on self-publishing by year's end. I'm currently a year into my current project after abandoning the planned follow-up to The Brick Mason's Sons. I'm excited to see where this new project takes me, and, as I'm now over a year into the process, I can safely say that I will see it through to completion. Expect something entirely different from what I've written in the past.

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A brief update on my writing. Also, a link to my favorite reader review of Temperance Unraveling.

benspencer.org The Official Website of Ben Spencer, Writer.

I received a check today in the mail from Park Road Books for a handful of copies they had sold of Temperance Unraveling in store. That was nice. I'm currently writing and waiting to hear word from sources who have expressed interest in The Brick Mason's Sons. Nothing may come of it, but fingers crossed.

Writing and waiting....