Weird and Wonderful…Introducing Jonathan Pinnock
Sandra Norval
As writers, we all have tales of books we started a long time ago. We all want to get our work out there but find our resolve is swayed by…
September 2011
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
ChrisMB
Dear Mr. or Ms. Reader, It is my duty to inform you that you have been accepted to delve into an enchanting world that exists alongside ours. A world that…
Once Walked With Gods by James Barclay
Overlord
Once Walked With Gods, was perhaps one of the most raved about new series in 2010. Author James Barclay is indeed one of the most accomplished British authors in the…
Story Structure – Part 10: The Art of the Subplot (part 2)
Amy Rose Davis
You can read the rest of the Story Structure series here: Part 1 – Story Structure: Beginnings Part 2 – Revisiting the Three-Act Structure Part 3 – In the Beginning……
Peter V. Brett Interview
Peter V. Brett has done something to fantasy that very, very few authors before him have managed. He has burst into the genre and written a book that is damned…
The Well at the World’s End by William Morris
Nyki Blatchley
Restless in his home, a rural, backwater country, the hero sets out into the wide world on a dangerous quest that has to do with a piece of jewelry. Crossing…
Fantasy Book Club – October 2011: A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
Hello Fantasy Fans! This month we will be reading A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham. Saraykeht is poised on the knife-edge of disaster. The powerful city-state of Saraykeht is…
Paul Evanby Interview
Paul Wiseall
Ladies and gents, in a follow up to last week’s article about fantasy from The Netherlands, it is with the greatest pleasure that we present to you one of the…
Beyond The Pale by Mark Anthony
Elloise Hopkins
I stumbled across this book entirely by accident almost a decade ago when I was on a working holiday in Australia. I had been in Sydney for several weeks working…
Shadow Fox by Ashley J. Barnard
Jennie Ivins
Jared Bruin has felt out of place his whole life. In his current home of London, England, he has few friends, and after his adopted American mother dies, no family.…
Blake Charlton Interview
Leo Elijah Cristea
Blake Charlton, author of Spellwright, the imminent Spellbound, and the forthcoming Spellbreaker, isn’t your usual kind of fantasy writer. Of course he’s as charming as the next writer, and has…
Child of Fire by Harry Connolly
Paolo Chikiamco
Child of Fire is the first novel in Harry Connolly’s Twenty Palaces urban fantasy–well, perhaps urban horror would be a more appropriate term–series (three books long so far), featuring ex-convict…