The Discworld Collector’s Library
Overlord
After tweeting a picture earlier today of the beauuuuuuuuuuuutiful Terry Pratchett Special Edition Hardbacks by Gollancz that I spotted in my local bookstore, Waterstones in Weston-super-Mare, I was inundated with…
Overlord
Advice from World’s Largest SFF Writing Contest
The judges of the World’s largest Science Fiction and Fantasy writing contest have issued a Press Release revealing that the main rejection point for all entrants is setting, character description…
Ken Liu: Hugo, Nebula & WF Award Winner Sells First Novel
Ken Liu, who has won Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for his short stories, including Paper Menagerie which you can read in full here, and has been published in…
The nation’s favourite children’s book is…
OK, so it probably doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone… anywhere… but after polling over 24,000 people The Book Trust has reveled that the nation’s favourite children’s book is…
Name of The WInd on Kindle for £1.49!!!
In what can only be described as one of the best awesomeness to penny deals of all time, Amazon have decided to offer up The Name of The Wind for…
Let’s share fantasy at World Book Night
Back in 2011 there was a bit of a kerfuffle when the UK’s version of World Book Night – a highly publicised night that independent charity, The Reading Agency, runs…
Anne Lyle Interview 2013
It has been a while since we first interviewed you on Fantasy-Faction, back then you were just embarking on being a published author – now you’ve just about wrapped up…
Final Round of Goodreads Choice Awards Open
The Final Round of voting in the Fantasy category of The Goodreads Choice Awards, one of the most noteworthy and sales boosting awards for authors, has opened up to the…
The Favourite Adjectives & Adverbs of Rowling, Myers and Collins
In what I, as a Literature student, consider very cool – and the rest of the World, as normal people, find utterly dull and pointless – Slate.com have done a…
Google Middle-Earth
OK, now, if you thought the posters for The Hobbit 2: The Desolation of Smaug I posted up earlier were cool… wait until you see this. You know how Google…
Posters for Hobbit 2 Movie Released
I think that each and every one of us, as genre fans, has a soft-spot for anything with J.R.R. Tolkien’s name attached to it; and this certainly goes for the…
EA & DISNEY TEAM UP ON NEW STAR WARS GAMES
In a move that I’d classify as ‘good’, because I feel EA have tended to create engaging Star Wars games for adults and Disney have tended to make un-engaging games…