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Government Open Consultation on PLR: My Idea
In an article I wrote yesterday I spoke about how British authors are entitled to just over 6 pence (10 cents) per book loaned from local authority run libraries through PLR Payments. Interestingly, a public consultation has opened up where the Government is inviting opinions from people (primarily authors and interested parties) on the proposed […]
Public Lending Right Payments frozen – Authors hit by Government’s library cuts.
Earlier this week I picked up on a Tweet by one of Britain’s best loved Fantasy Authors, Juliet McKenna. Juliet was somewhat dismayed about a Government announcement – no surprise there! – here’s what she said: Authors’ Public Lending Right payments [have been] frozen. Great. Not. My steadily diminishing income takes another hit. For those who […]
Fantasy & Ebooks: Big in China!
When you think of China it’s likely that images of dragons, spirits, magic, combat, swords and alternative states of consciousness come to mind; all the ingredients of a successful fantasy novel. This is likely to contrast heavily with the second image you’re likely to get, the birthing place of the majority of our affordable electronics […]
How many of the Top 100 Fantasy Authors have you read?
Here’s a quick question for you… How many of the Top 100 Fantasy Authors have you read? No idea? Well, it is time for you to find out! Fantasy-Faction has stumbled across a List Challenge that allows you to click on the authors you’ve read to easily work out your title: Click HERE to give […]
G.R.R. Martin on which character changed most in TV Series
Last night, George R.R. Martin appeared on a BBC One documentary to discuss the 500th anniversary of Machiavelli’s notorious book The Prince, which he said had a profound influence on numerous characters in his A Song of Ice & Fire series. For those unfamiliar with the book it is famous for lines such as: ‘It […]
Goodreads Choice Best Fantasy of 2013 is…
Well, no real surprises in this years Goodreads Awards… annoyingly in some respects. As I hinted at in my blog post a few weeks back – when I discussed the announcement of the finalists – the Award tends to be more of an author popularity contest than a ‘good book contest’. Just to explain what […]
Amazon’s Best SFF of 2013
Amazon have released a list of books that they consider to be the top 20 SFF books of 2013. Although I imagine Fantasy-Faction’s Best of 2013 list will be fairly different due to our focus on fantasy – especially epic/high fantasy – I think that if you are a genre-fiction fan – with no preference on […]
Hour long presentation on Writing Muslim American Fantasy by Saldin Ahmed
Grand Rapids Community College‘s library (of which this video holds all right and deserves all credit for) hosted an evening with Saladin Ahmed, an award-winning science fiction-fantasy author. You can watch it below (and a description is below that): Ahmed’s presentation — “Writing Muslim American Fantasy: A Reading and Talk” — starts at 7 p.m. […]
Short, Sweet Interview with Terry Brooks
I have just stumbled across an awesome interview between an Italian fan and bestselling fantasy author Terry Brooks. In this fun, lighthearted interview Terry talks a bit about why people who think you can do ‘anything’ when writing Fantasy are wrong, how writers can avoid their readers thinking they may require therapy, how he avoids […]
Finally, World can finish Michael J. Sullivan’s books
A few months back one of Fantasy-Faction’s forum members wrote to renowned author Michael J. Sullivan (also a forum member) to ask why his books weren’t available to certain countries… to be exact, his post read: “You really gotta talk to Orbit about their ebook licensing, Michael. I just went to get the kindle one, […]
Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
Because this is the first review of Red Country (that I’m aware of) and we’ve been given the exclusive trailer, which you can see above – this review is a cross between an advanced preview and a review. VERY little has been said about Abercrombie’s latest book so I wanted to lift the veil (not […]
Major TV Broadcasters ‘intrigued by fantasy’
There has been much talk and speculation over the past few years about whether the success of the television adaption of A Game of Thrones would open doors for more fantasy shows with a decent sized budget. Finally, a television boss has spoken up and we’re excited to say that his answer was clearly ‘yes’. […]
