Five Common Mistakes Writing Fantasy Flash Fiction
Faith M. Boughan
During my time as a flash editor for various ezines, I’ve read a fair chunk of speculative flash fiction. Some excellent. Some good. Some bad. Some really, really bad. And…
January 2014
A Twist in the Fairy Tale
Victoria Hooper
I love fairy stories and folklore. I love the adventure and romance alongside the capacity for great darkness, the strange rules that don’t always quite make sense, the sense of…
Adrian Tchaikovsky Pens Sci-Fi Novel Deal
Overlord
It’s always sad when a great series comes to an end, so when Fantasy-Faction heard that our good friend Adrian Tchaikovsky’s tenth book in his Shadows of Apt series, Seal…
Cover Art for the Upcoming Powder Mage Novella
Following the success of his first book in the Powder Mage series, Brian McClellan has been dropping hints that he is working on a side project, a Powder Mage novella.…
‘Prince of Fools’ gets UK Cover…
Fantasy-Faction are huge fans of both Mark Lawrence and Jason Chan – the artist who did the covers for Prince of Thorns through to Emperor of Thorns – so, when…
Kingkiller Book 3 still in Limbo, but lots to look forward to…
A question I get asked almost daily over Twitter is: ‘When will Patrick Rothfuss’s 3rd Kingkiller Chronicles novel be released?’ Every single time I’m asked this question I answer: ‘I…
The Grendel Affair by Lisa Shearin
Joie
New York City. The city that never sleeps is also the first one to be invaded by aliens, face end-of-the-world natural disasters, or signal the beginning of human extinction by…
The Whatnot by Stefan Bachmann
Dan Hanks
I can only imagine that after writing an astonishing debut novel (and one of Fantasy-Faction’s best of 2013), it would be difficult to maintain such high quality in any subsequent…
Game of Thrones Season 4: Trailer
The trailer for season 4 of Game of Thrones is up and available to be enjoyed! The trailer begins with the deluded King Joffrey celebrating his recent marriage to Margaery…
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Steff Humm
It’s been a year since Peter Jackson took us back to Middle Earth and Bilbo Baggins set out on An Unexpected Journey. After mixed reviews, the consensus seemed to be…
Half A King by Joe Abercrombie gets a cover!
I’ve been waiting to say this for agesssssss and finally I can! Half A King, Joe Abercrmbie’s upcoming novel aimed at young adults, has got a cover! The reason I…
Banished by Liz de Jager
Hierath
Liz De Jager’s debut novel, Banished, is set in a world where the borders between the realm of Faerie and our own world, the Frontier, are thin and porous. It’s…