Monthly Short Story Winner: Flash Fiction
Xiagan
Postcard Fiction. Short, Short Stories. Micro Fiction. 500 words or less. This month, that’s all our entrants got. Wikipedia says that flash fiction ‘often contains the classic story elements: protagonist,…
August 2016
Teresa Frohock Interview
T. O. Munro
Today we have the pleasure of interviewing Teresa Frohock, author of several ground breaking fantasy novels and novellas including The Broken Road, Miserere, and the recently completed trilogy of Los…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: Farewell To Another Five
Laura M. Hughes
Writing fiction is like painting Rorschach cards: everyone sees (and feels) something different when looking at what you’ve created. Every review is subjective. And as AFE and GR have observed…
Flamecaster by Cinda Williams Chima
Leo Elijah Cristea
Flamecaster, by Cinda Williams Chima, is the first of a brand new series set in the same world of the acclaimed Seven Realms quartet, where we leave behind Han and…
Tropes and Clichés in Epic Fantasy: Is It Time To Move On?
I just finished Diana Jones’s The Tough Guide to Fantasyland first published twenty years ago, but still accurately satirical in the shots it takes at the more recognisable “issues” in…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: Another Five Fall
A.F.E. Smith
Hot on the heels of the last update, here are another five books to which we are sadly saying goodbye. Again, these books all have something to recommend them –…