Next week we will be getting the first delivery of our Fantasy-Faction Anthology!
This first edition print is a special edition that we will be making available just to you guys, Fantasy-Faction’s Website and Forum users, a month before the ISBN editions (both ebook and print) are launched and distributed. Here’s what’s inside:
From award winning website, Fantasy-Faction, comes an anthology of short stories and articles celebrating the fantasy genre’s diversity. Dragons, magic, clones, portals and swords are just some of what awaits you on the quests and investigations within. Written by a combination of genre giants and previously unpublished authors, this is Fantasy-Faction in a book.
Table of Contents
Marc Aplin | Introduction
Richard Morgan | Killing the Magic
Mark Lawrence | The Dream-Taker’s Apprentice
Jessalyn Heaton | The Unsung
Anne Lyle | Historical Research for Fantasy Writers
Jon Sprunk | Honour Bound
Edmund Wells | Oasis
Kameron Hurley | Creating Better Fantasy Economies
Rene Sears | Misericordia
Adrian Tchaikovsky | The House on the Old Cliffs
Myke Cole | Cazar el Muerto
Miah Sonnel | The Dealer
James Barclay | The Preservation and Evolution of Elves
Daniel Beazley | Sharag’s Shank
Richard Ford | The Halfwyrd’s Burden
Mark Charan Newton | Advice I’d Give My Younger Self
Michael J. Sullivan | The Autumn Mist
John Yeo Jr. | Overdue
The reason we have created this edition is because we wanted to make sure that Fantasy-Faction users had the opportunity to own our anthology before anyone else. For those who don’t know the story the anthology is made up of six contest winners and the rest are short stories and articles by professional authors. NONE OF THE PROFESSIONAL AUTHORS WERE PAID FOR THEIR WORK. They all donated stories and articles to us to support our site! (Which isn’t cheap to run and which, a few years back, was struggling to cover costs.) Fantasy-Faction’s popularity and reputation meant all these writers were more than willing to help and essentially means you guys made this whole project possible. Without you all this never would never have happened. You guys visit us regularly, talk about us, recommend us, retweet us, comment on our articles and reviews, and it truly means so much.
As you all know, and as with all things Fantasy-Faction, this whole project is not for profit. All we want to do is cover our costs and HOPEFULLY make enough to fund the server costs and another writing contest in the future. For that reason we are only asking cost price for this anthology of £7.00 + P&P of £2.80 (in the US and Canada $12.00 + shipping & handling of $4.50) and leave it up to you if you’d like to pay anything extra towards the site/future projects in form of a donation – I’m kind of reluctant to call it ‘pay what you like’, because we have to cover costs, you see. Oh, and if you are coming to our Grim Gathering and would like a copy then I can bring it with me and you can skip the postage. 🙂
Oh, you want to see the cover? Well, here’s the beautiful proof edition cover I received a few days back, I’m guessing the final version will be almost identical:
In total we have just 100 special edition copies of this anthology: 50 in the UK and 50 in the US. Also, of course, if you have already preordered then a copy should be on its way to you when we get these website editions in. 🙂
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Again, thank you so much for taking an interest in this project; every order placed will support Fantasy-Faction and keeping this community we all love so much online and growing 🙂
