Wheel-Mouse vs All The Crazy Robots
Overlord
Wheel-Mouse vs All The Crazy Robots is a joint project between fantasy author Mark Lawrence and his daughter, Celyn. Now, I wouldn’t want Mark to take too much of the…
May 2012
Balticon 2012 Review
Jennie Ivins
On Friday May 25th, I pulled up to the Baltimore Marriott, ready to begin my first vacation in almost six years. But even the excitement of being ‘kidless’ for three…
Literary Devices: Plot Devices
Amy Rose Davis
Continuing my series on using literary devices in fantasy, we come to one that’s sure to create a little controversy in the comments. For some folks on both the writing…
Peter Orullian Interview
Leo Elijah Cristea
Peter Orullian is an American SFF author whose Morningstar shortlisted début, The Unremembered, is published by Tor. A frequenter of SFF conventions and speaker at panels alongside fantasy giants Pat…
In the Face of Adversity: When Loved Ones Don’t Love Your Book
Ashley Barnard
About fifteen years ago, I sent my mom a copy of my manuscript – my very first novel. It was 973 pages long, and was, looking back, pretty much a…
Fantasy Book Club – June 2012 – Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig
With a mere touch of your skin Miriam Black can tell when and how you will die. She’s seen old age take its toll, car crashes and heart attacks. Watching…
Peter and Max by Bill Willingham
Mike Shackle
Fairy tales are growing in popularity once more and looking very different from the Walt Disney versions we have come to expect. This summer two movies, Mirror Mirror and Snow…
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Paul Wiseall
2312 is set, rather unsurprisingly, in the year 2312. A time when scientific and technological advances have helped humanity to spread out and inhabit the solar system. Humans have terraformed…
Literary Devices: Allusion
One of the most powerful literary devices in the writer’s arsenal is allusion. An allusion is a brief mention of an event, person, story, myth, legend, date, etc. that exists…
The Avengers Assemble Review
Well, The Avengers has just topped the American box office for a third week running, so I figured it’s probably about time we wade in and give it a review.…
Brandon Sanderson’s Self-Publishing & Small Press Releases
I woke up this morning to find an interesting post on the Fantasy-Faction Forums. It was by a gentleman who was going to be self-publishing a number of titles and…
The Man Who Thought He Was King
Yesterday night over 1,350 people visited a thread on Fantasy-Faction by a self-published author named M. R. Mathias. I hate to further bring attention to what has since been called:…