Six Scenes With Jesper
Overlord
The wonderful Leigh Bardugo has a hugely anticipated novel coming out soon: Crooked Kingdom. It’s the sequel to what many consider one of last year’s very best novels, Six of…
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50 Years of Star Trek
Geoff Matthews
Let me make this clear from the start; I wasn’t alive when the first episode of Star Trek was broadcast on the BBC. The last episode (discounting the ‘banned’ episodes…
Gollancz have gone mad!
Just a very quick post to let you know that a ton of titles from Gollancz (including some new, highly-anticipated ones) are just 99p on the Kindle here in the…
Where do you get your ideas from?
James Barclay
Sometimes out of the mouths, well hands, of babes and sucklings it seems… It’s a question many writers dread and I think it’s because it’s so hard to give any…
Nothing Is As It Seems
Edward Cox
I’ve always referred to The Relic Guild Trilogy as a single story chopped up into three books. Mostly because it’s true. It is the tale of a secret band of…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Known Title, Unknown Story
Xiagan
The name of the short story must be that of a fantasy bestseller but the story isn’t allowed to have anything to do with the original book. So if your…
The Sacred and Profane in Fantasy Writing: Who Gives a F___?
T. O. Munro
As I started writing this my five-year-old niece was settling down to a sleepover with my youngest daughter, and my second daughter had just reminded me that we would have…
Havens And Hells In Fantasy
Nicola Alter
When we talk about how we feel when reading we often refer to characters or plot. We vent about a villain we hate or gush about a hero we love.…
The Heart of Stone by Ben Galley – Cover Reveal
Jennie Ivins
Here on Fantasy-Faction we are fans of both cool cover art and cool authors. Today we are lucky to have a little of both! Our once contributor, now successful self-published…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Politics, Scheming, and Intrigue
Scheming courtiers with different goals, layers of conflict, strings being pulled behind the scenes, power shifting, social climbers, too cocksure of themselves to be careful, poison… Political fantasy stories (think…
A Cast of Roles
Aaron Miles
Through the course of a novel, the author will create and introduce a wide array of different characters to the reader. Often they might do it on automatic, smoothly introducing…
Star Trek Beyond – Movie Review
Stephen Rhodes
The summer film season is always a mixed bag of emotions for me. There’s the thrill of all the blockbuster films as the studios roll out their big guns to…