Question of the week: which book did you read first?
It’s time for Question of the Week, which is designed to inspire interesting discussion of enjoyable topics.
This week’s question is one I can’t answer myself, but one I would like to ask for the upcoming 200th episode of my podcast.
Which book of mine did you first read, and how did you come across it?
-JM
First one was Demonsouled. I looked for free books when I downloaded the Kindle app for my new iPad and have read everything you’ve written since. Guess your plan of giving away the first book for free worked on me.
I found “Child of the Ghosts” on Bookbub. The title was intriguing. It was also free. I now have an extensive Jonathan Moeller collection in my Kindle library. By the way, will there ever be an audio of the Ghost Night series?
Ghost Omnibus One.
I was reading “Sword&Sorceress” anthologies in the 90th and discovered them as ebooks on Amazon beginning of the Corona lockdown. I read a Caina Prototype story and looked you up on Amazon. Ghost Omnibus One and Ghost Exile Omnibus One were 0.99 € so I purchased both. I continued with Ghost Exile, backfilling the Ghost stories later.
You would not be able to answer your question obviously, but you would be able to answer us the following questions: what was the first fantasy book you published, and what was the first fantasy story with which character you published in an anthology.
The book I read first was James Herbert The Rats.
I found Child of the Ghosts on kindle.
Frostborn The Grey Knight. I was looking for a new fantasy series to read after I finished the Codex Alera. Came across it when I was scrolling through Amazon and thought…”huh why not?”
Little did I know that all these years later I would have an addiction to your novels. Well, there are worse problems to have.
Read Child of the Ghosts first on the Kindle web app.
Child of ghosts…Caina is a great ghost nightfighter.
Frostborn. I forget why
Demonsouled free book offer.
Iron Hand, IIRC it came up as a suggestion on the Kindle app.
Frostborn, it was 99 cents. Then, after I finished that series, Child of the Ghosts, on a 99 cent deal.
Thief Trap — finished on 9/14/2016. I don’t recall how I found it, Bookbub maybe? I know the book covers amused me since they’re nothing like how Nadia dresses.
Frostborn Omnibus One, purchased it on Google play for 99 cents when looking for a new series to read. Who knew that would lead to me later purchasing all of your books.
Funny story: It was actually “The Linux Command Line Beginner’s Guide”.
I wanted to freshen up my command line skills and found your book on Amazon for that. In that book you mentioned Caina Amalas and that she is a character in one of your fantasy books. That sounded interesting and so I started reading… Now you are one of my favorite authors 🙂