What Makes a Great Bookstore?
Nicole Singer
Everyone has a favorite bookstore—whether it’s a big chain or the corner independent. It’s the place where we discover new books, maybe even wait in line for hours for the…
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Giveaway – The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley
Lisa Taylor
In December, our book club will be reading The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley. There has been a lot of buzz about The Mirror Empire this year and I have…
World Fantasy Award Winners
Overlord
It still does not seem real to me that this website, that I set up because I didn’t have any friends to talk to about the fantasy book I’d just…
Patrick Rothfuss responds to Creative Writing Teacher’s ‘fantasy doesn’t count’ jibe
Here at Fantasy-Faction we love Patrick Rothfuss and his Kingkiller Chronicles. I feel Pat is an incredibly intelligent, well spoken man who has done a lot of good in terms…
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…
Fantastical Biology – Part Four: Deep Ocean
Shambralyn Baker
The ocean covers 70% of the Earth’s surface, and yet humans have explored less than 5% of them. No wonder the deepest parts of the ocean have inspired and played…
THE HOBBIT IN 72 SECONDS… Cause you ain’t got 9 hours.
Not everyone has enjoyed The Hobbit movies so far and that’s a problem. Expected to sit at around 9 hours in total, when all is said and done, that’s a…
Goodreads Announces ‘Best Fantasy of 2014’ Opening Round Nominees
The Goodreads Choice Awards have rapidly grown into one of the most influential book awards in the world. Authors such as Mark Lawrence have reported that just a nomination in…
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…
Fantasy Book Club – November 2014: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
For November, our members have voted to read Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. Under the streets of London there’s a place most people could never even dream of. A city of…
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Eric Christensen
In August of last year, I wrote about a variety of resources that might be useful to fantasy writers. Recently, I came across another resource that I found so amusing,…