Monthly Short Story Winner: Portal Fantasy
Xiagan
We’ve been getting such good feedback for the short stories our members have submitted in our Monthly Short Story Competition that we have decided to post them on the main…
November 2014
Jay Kristoff Interview
Nicholas Schmiedicker
Hey all you Factioners! I had the amazing opportunity to talk to Jay Kristoff about the finale for his Japanese steampunk series The Lotus War. If you haven’t heard about…
Fantasy-Faction Anthology: Order the Paperback (UK, US & Canada!)
Overlord
It is hard to believe that the Fantasy-Faction Anthology that we worked so hard on for almost three years is now out there and being read by Fantasy fans around…
The End of ‘Requires Hate’ (a.k.a. Benjanun Sriduangkaew)
A few weeks ago the vast majority of authors, publishers and bloggers punched the air when Requires Hate was finally outted – shockingly – as author, Benjanun Sriduangkaew.For those unaware…
The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel
Sonia Grace
Will Everett has spent a long time wishing adventure would find him, but when it does it’s not quite what he expects. In one eventful day he meets the rail…
Fan Favourite, Wesley Chu, offered nice new deal by Angry Robot Books
In news that is good for a number of reasons, Angry Robot Books has announced that award winning author, Wesley Chu, has been offered a rather hefty new six figure…
Fantasy at the Fair
Victoria Hooper
Over at the Fantasy-Faction Book Club we’ve recently finished our October read: Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury. This is a story about two boys and one father…
London Comic Con – Review
Holly Rymer
The dark water below promised a painful death should the cable snap. The gentleman making faces at us during the five minute cable car ride from one side of the…
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Nick Clark
If you’ve come into contact with any of David Mitchell’s work before, you’ll be well-acquainted with the sort of genre-switching, time-slipping, scene-shifting fiction that the author is best known for.…
Collecting Data On Your Writing
Adrian Faulkner
If you have any sort of science background, one of the most surprising things about trying to achieve success as a writer is the lack of metrics to gauge your…
The Liar’s Key Cover Reveal
When your most recent novel has done enough to pick up both the David Gemmell Legend Award (prose) and the David Gemmell Ravenheart Award (Cover Art), you are inevitably going…
The Detective by Jonathan L. Howard
Shambralyn Baker
“Don’t think you can quantify me and put me in a thesis. A census taker once tried to test me. I let my front garden eat him.” – Johannes Cabal…