The Liar’s Key Cover Reveal
Overlord
When your most recent novel has done enough to pick up both the David Gemmell Legend Award (prose) and the David Gemmell Ravenheart Award (Cover Art), you are inevitably going…
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Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ heading to Television!
A couple of years ago it seemed that Fantasy and Science-Fiction had died its death on television. You’d get the odd show trying to kick-start the genre, but generally, no…
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…
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
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…