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Scarlett the Fantasy-Faction Dragon Gets a Makeover
If you’ve been with us for a while you will probably recognize our site mascot Scarlett the dragon. If you’ve not met her before, here she is in all her original glory! She has been with us from the early days of Fantasy-Faction. And since we are ten this year, I thought she might like […]
Fantasy-Faction’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021
Let us add to your tbr pile once again (we do see that as our main duty and responsibility) with these most anticipated books of 2021!
Fantasy-Faction’s Favourite Books of 2020
Here they are, Fantasy-Faction’s Favourite books of 2020 and we hope your TBR pile explodes!
Jeff Wheeler – Livestream Interview
On Friday December 4th, we are doing a livestream interview with 47North author Jeff Wheeler at 2pm EST in our Facebook Group! Wheeler is the author of the popular Kingfountain, Muirwood, Harbinger, Whispers from Mirrowen, and The Grave Kingdom series. Direct link to the chat will be posted when it goes live and will be […]
Fantasy-Faction Turns 10! Help Us Spread the Love of Reading!
Happy December Factioners! Last month Fantasy-Faction turned 10! That’s right, ten years ago Marc Aplin founded our main site. 5 years later we started our Facebook group and we’ve been sharing the love of fantasy together ever since! To celebrate our decade of fantasy, we would like to give back and spread our love of […]
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #6: Our Round One Winner
When we began posting our semi-finalist reviews at the beginning of this week, we didn’t know which book we would be sending on to the finals of the sixth annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off. In fact, the deliberations went on until late Thursday evening for our US team members, early Friday morning for the Europeans in […]
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #6: The Fifth Five Fall + Our Picks for Semi-Finalists
Now is the winter of our discontent… All right, it’s not winter, and whether contented or not with today’s outcome, the nine authors still in the Fantasy-Faction batch can stop biting their nails, for today they learn their fate—or at least whether they’ve made the semifinalist cut. Once again, the experience of art is subjective, […]
Seven Deaths of an Empire by G. R. Matthews – Cover Reveal + Excerpt
Seven Deaths of an Empire, from Solaris, is one of the hotly anticipated debut fantasy novels for 2021. Here is the stunning cover!
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #6: The Fourth Five Fall
The last month of Phase I of the SPFBO is always a nail-biter for authors who remain in the competition, and it is with great sympathy that we say goodbye to our next five from the Fantasy-Faction batch. This week’s titles feature cool magical animals and shifters as well as some classic struggles between good […]
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #6: The Third Five Fall
The third group to be eliminated in this year’s SPFBO includes some really creative and ambitious explorations of intriguing themes, from gender roles to capitalism, to the nature of power and love. As we say with each batch we let go, just because a book appears on this page doesn’t mean it’s unworthy of love, […]
Rogues Gallery by Richard A. Knaak – Kickstarter
This author has written books for World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Dragonlance amongst others. Anyway, with that in mind, when this most prolific of authors is running a Kickstarter we jumped at the chance to help out and pay him back a little for all the joy he had brought into our reading lives.
Livestream Chat with Fonda Lee, Andrea G. Stewart, and K. S. Villoso
On Friday September 18th, we are hosting a livestream chat with Orbit authors Fonda Lee, Andrea G. Stewart, and K.S. Villoso at 4pm EST in our Facebook Group! We’ll be talking about their new releases, the state of Asian-fantasy, and a TV deal! The chat will be moderated by JC Kang and Virginia McClain and you will be able to ask the authors […]
