British Author Challenge 2023 General Thread

Welcome to another year of the BAC! It continues to be a very casual challenge, so everyone should feel free to pop in and out as they choose.

I'll create threads for each month as they roll around, and post announcements and links here in this thread. The general thread will be a place for questions, answers, suggestions, interesting links, and sundry posts.

Wildcard: Doorstops https://www.librarything.com/topic/346903

January: Rosemary Sutcliff & Fred D'Aguiar https://www.librarything.com/topic/346902

February: Short Stories & Novellas https://www.librarything.com/topic/348109

March: Vita Sackville-West & Tariq Ali https://www.librarything.com/topic/348887

April: British Queens (non-fiction) https://www.librarything.com/topic/349738

May: Jan Morris & R.F. Delderfield https://www.librarything.com/topic/350529

June: Time Travel & Alternate History https://www.librarything.com/topic/351129

July: Nadifa Mohamed & Tom Holt/KJ Parker https://www.librarything.com/topic/351882

August: Seafaring Stories https://www.librarything.com/topic/352665

September: School Stories/Campus Novels https://www.librarything.com/topic/353268

October: Monica Ali & Dennis Wheatley https://www.librarything.com/topic/354029#

November: Pre-Tudor Era Works (before 1486) https://www.librarything.com/topic/354796

December: Malorie Blackman & E. M. Forster https://www.librarything.com/topic/355540

The Wildcard and January threads are up!

Wildcard: https://www.librarything.com/topic/346903
January: https://www.librarything.com/topic/346902

>3 amanda4242: thank you!

The February thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/348109

The March thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/348887

US kindle sale: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke is on sale for $4.99.

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1596912510/ref=nosim/librarythin06-20

Jodi Taylor's Just One Damned Thing After Another, the first in a series about time travelling historians, is on sale for 99 cents.

The April thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/349738

The May thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/350529

July author Tom Holt's J.W. Wells series is on sale for $1.99 each. I've linked to Amazon, but they're available at that price from other retailers.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0856WC8BP?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_m_mng_rw...

The June thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/351129

For June's theme: A Second Chance, the third book in Jodi Taylor's Chronicles of St. Mary's, is on sale for 99 cents from various US retailers.

July author deal: For a limited time, KJ Parker's novelette No Choice is available for free from Subterranean Press as a DRM free epub.

https://subterraneanpress.com/parker-nc/

The July thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/351882

June theme deal: Just One Damned Thing After Another, the first book in Jodi Taylor's Chronicles of St. Mary's, is on sale for 99 cents from various US retailers.

July author deal: Several of Tom Holt's books are on sale from various US retailers.

99 cents:
Expecting Someone Taller
Ye Gods!
Odds and Gods
Falling Sideways

$1.99:
Outsorcerer's Apprentice
Blonde Bombshell

>14 amanda4242: KJ Parker's novelette No Choice is still available for free from Subterranean Press as a DRM free epub.

https://subterraneanpress.com/parker-nc/

The August thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/352665

The October thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/354029#

The November thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/354796

US ebook sale: The Good, The Bad and The History by Jodi Taylor is on sale for 99 cents.

The planning thread for next year is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/355015#

I'm going to start making final selections for next year's BAC on Friday, so don't wait to make suggestions!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/355015#

The December thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/355540#

Last call for suggestions for next year's challenge.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/355015#

Selections are complete for next year's challenge.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/355015#8277437

I've set up the General, Wildcard, and January threads for the 2024 challenge.

General: https://www.librarything.com/topic/356163
Wildcard: https://www.librarything.com/topic/356165
January: https://www.librarything.com/topic/356166

>28 amanda4242: thank you!