What Makes A Good Protagonist?
Aaron Miles
From the humble page all kinds of fantastic characters can spring to life: dashing heroes, devious villains and everything in between. But only a few of these creations will reach…
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The Use of Drugs In Fantasy
Ben Galley
As fantastical as our genre is, there has always been some leakage from the real world to the ones lodged between the pages we devour. Love, war, anger, sex, despair,…
Wolfhound Century TV Series?
Overlord
OK, so this week’s news is not likely to cause the kind of mass-excitement that the recent announcement of a Kingkiller Chronicles Movie/TV/Video Game production did, but we think that…
Genre of the Impossible
Victoria Hooper
For a while now there has been an emphasis on realism in our fantasy, which has created some exciting new stories and series, including some personal favourites. However, as the…
3rd Book by Peter Newman signed!
Fantasy-Faction has made no secret of our love for Peter Newman and his work. We’re not entirely sure how such a delightful fellow writes such dark novels, but we’ve theorised…
The Cake is a Lie: Why Winning Isn’t Always a Happy Ending
Kameron Hurley
Sometimes I suspect I’m not truly American, because I harbor a dark secret. Unlike most of my countryfolk, I don’t much care for the neat, syrupy, happy ending. It just…
The NaNoWriMo Phenomenon
Rebekah Loper
November is coming. The non-writer (or very, very new writer) may only associate this with the imminent holiday season. However, there is another event that happens every November that can…
Has the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off Changed Your Opinion of Self-Published Books?
Geoff Matthews
As you’ll know from Marc’s articles and Mark Lawrence’s tweets, as well as many of the blog posts out there on the subject, there has been, and still is, a…
Preparing For NaNoWriMo
Adrian Faulkner
How can it be less than a month until November? It seems like only yesterday that it was summer and yet November conjures images of cold nights, frosty mornings, fireworks…
What I learnt from Mark Lawrence’s SPFBO
About a month back, after fighting our way through 27 novels as our contribution to Mark Lawrence’s Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off, we were able to announce our ‘champion’, Priest (Ratcatchers #1)…
Kingkiller Chronicles Movie, TV Show & Video Game…? YES PLEASE! :-)
It was announced today that a deal had been made for the rights to Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles. Those who keep up-to-date with SFF book/movie news will know that this…
Angry Robot want your Manuscripts… Again!
In 2011, a genre writer came across the Angry Robot Open Submission window and sent in the manuscript he’d been working on. He made a friend via the AbsoluteWrite forums…