Ben Aaronovitch on London
Overlord
To celebrate this year’s London Book and Screen Week, five top authors will be revealing their favourite books about London on seven top blogs over seven days, as part of…
Guest Blogs
Writing a Book People Can’t Put Down: The Art of Pacing
Margaret Fortune
It’s two o’clock in the morning. You’ve had a long day, you’re exhausted, and in just four short hours you have to get ready for another day of work. More…
Intersectionality and the White Girl – Guest Blog by Alyc Helms
Alyc Helms
Intersectionality and the White Girl Here’s the deal. I’m a white girl, and I’ve never been to China. One of the first things people ask when they find out my…
Putting the Fun in Fantasy by Jennifer Williams
Jen Williams
With The Copper Promise I wanted to write a fun fantasy book. A sort of knockabout, adventure and peril and dastardly deeds type of book. The type of book that…
The Lesson of the Selfie; or The Power of Point of View
Brian Staveley
I managed to frustrate my editor very early on in my nascent career. He wanted a photo for publicity purposes. I didn’t want to shell out the hundred bucks for…
Three Years In The Monkey House. Guest Blog by Gareth L. Powell
Gareth L. Powell
Sometimes as a child I would lie in bed and worry what would happen if, in the morning, I awoke with no memory of lying in bed worrying. Would I…
Western Fantasy – Mismatch, or Perfect Match?
Ben Galley
In January of this year, I began to write a new book, Bloodrush. I was stepping away from my dark, epic, medieval roots and seeking something new in what I…
Guest Blog by Ryan Graudin: Creating A Sense of Danger
Ryan Graudin
The setting of my YA novel THE WALLED CITY is based on a real place called the Kowloon Walled City, a neighborhood that existed in 1980s Hong Kong. It was…
Keeping the Little Things Undead
David Towsey
We are all familiar with ‘zombies’, right? Senseless, decaying and yet animated corpses that eat juicy live brains’ – as seen in AMC’s The Walking Dead. Well, that’s certainly a…
Traditional Publishing, Self-Publishing and The Pro Writer
Gail Z. Martin
Once upon a time, not long ago, there was ‘real’ publishing and vanity publishing. ‘Real’ publishing paid the author, and authors paid the vanity publisher. The lines were clear. Few…
Dear Grimdark… Guest Post by Sam Sykes
Sam Sykes
As most of you know, Sam Sykes has a new book out this week, The City Stained Red. We’ve been lucky enough to get our hands on a copy and…
Eliza Crewe on her Crushed protagonist, Meda
Regular readers of Fantasy-Faction will remember that following the closure of Strange Chemistry – an event that saw many writers thrust into the unfortunate position where they were unexpectedly out…