Tom Pollock Interview
Max Edwards
Tom Pollock’s debut YA urban fantasy novel, The City’s Son, was released in 2012 to much acclaim. With the newest addition to his Skyscraper Throne series due out tomorrow in…
July 2013
San Diego Comicon 2013 Report
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
As everyone probably already knows, Comicon landed on the city of San Diego like the usual ton of bricks. All traffic slowed to a crawl in the vicinity of the…
Sara Megibow Interview – Part Two
Dan Hanks
Welcome to Part II of our interview with literary agent Sara Megibow of the Nelson Literary Agency. If you missed Part I you can read it here. Today we talk…
Scott Lynch’s Gentleman Bastard Read Along
Overlord
We at Fantasy-Faction are big fans of Scott Lynch’s Gentleman Bastard series. So much so that we’ve teamed up with Gollancz and Scott to do a reread of the first…
Writing Food
Michael R. Underwood
Everybody eats. And in many cases, eating scenes can be a great way to liven up your fiction. It’s easy to write a conversation that becomes nothing more than a…
The Chaotic Champion – Part Six: The Protector Hero
Nyki Blatchley
The town of Tombstone is in turmoil. The countryside around is ruled by bandits, and ranchers who are little better, and the small group of men who stand between the…
The Thousand Names by Django Wexler
Mike Shackle
“In the desert colony of Khandar, a dark and mysterious magic, hidden for centuries, is about to emerge from darkness. Marcus d’Ivoire, senior captain of the Vordanai Colonials, is resigned…
Sci-fi/Horror Book Club – August 2013: The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
Lisa Taylor
Our Sci-Fi/Horror Book Club returns to Science Fiction this month with a read of The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu. I read this book earlier this year and found…
Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
In my opinion, Mark Lawrence is one of the finest writers of fantasy around today. His ability to craft beautiful, fluent prose is matched only by the likes of Patrick…
Fantasy Book Club – August 2013: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
In August we will be reading The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente. “Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to…
Sara Megibow Interview – Part One
I was pretty excited the day I discovered writers were cool enough to have agents. Akin to a bookish James Bond, a literary agent sounded like someone the recluse in…
Is Urban Fantasy The Next Genre Neanderthal?
Eric Christensen
In a recent post on the-toast.com, Ginger Clark, a literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd., remarked: It is much harder to sell a new urban fantasy series now that it…