Worldbuilding: Don’t Neglect The Landscape
Geoff Matthews
You have your story, your plot, your characters, sub-texts and themes. On a piece, or several, of paper you have sketched out a map, worked out the travel distances and…
Geoff Matthews
Graham Austin-King Interview
Graham Austin-King is the author of the The Riven Wyrde Saga. This trilogy follows the fates of a people whose land is invaded by two forces. One they have known…
Everyone’s Got A Point (of View) – Part One: First Person
I’ve never liked violence. Doesn’t mean I’m not good at it, I’m just not fond of it. But survival’s become something of a habit and if that means getting in…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: The Fall of the Three
Everything needs an evocative title to draw the reader in and, whilst not quite the hyperbole of a Sun newspaper headline, these three haven’t truly fallen. It is more to…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: Cover Up?
We’ve had a look at the covers to all 30 books on the Fantasy-Faction list for the Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off and picked our favourite three. Why did we do…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: The Self-Pub Strikes Back
Last year’s Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off gathered a lot of interest across Twitter, Facebook and forums. At Mark Lawrence’s request, ten influential websites, bloggers and over 250 authors got together and…
The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
“The body you are wearing used to be mine.” So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex…
Black City Saint by Richard A. Knaak
Prohibition is in full swing. The cops are scrambling around, closing down speakeasies, and arresting gangsters whenever they can – those that aren’t on the take that is. And in…
City of Burning Shadows by Barbara J. Webb
Today’s review features another one of Mark Lawrence’s Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off Finalists. This will be Fantasy-Faction’s ninth review of the ten finalists and means we’ve got just one left…
Richard A. Knaak Interview
Who doesn’t know Richard A. Knaak? You know what, don’t answer. You all should. This is the author who has written more books than you realise, in more worlds that…
Fallout 4: Of Dogs and Desk Fans
It’s been a few a days since I left…since I escaped the vault. The world has changed and I’m saying that as the reigning master of understatement. It’s been destroyed,…
Steve McHugh Interview
Today we have the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Steve McHugh, author of the Hellequin Chronicles, an urban fantasy series that currently spans five full length novels and two short stories.…