YA Science Fiction and Fantasy – Part Three: Why YA Is Important
Leo Elijah Cristea
Instead of looking at the themes and aspects of YA and what makes it what it is (as suggested in the previous article), it felt somewhat redundant to too closely…
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Fantastical Creatures of Greco-Roman Mythology: The Hippalektryon
Faith M. Boughan
For the fourth instalment of this series about lesser-known creatures and beasts of Classical mythology, we’re going to take a little bit of a lighter spin on things. While this…
The Fantasy Assassin
Victoria Hooper
Assassins seem to have been steadily rising in popularity, wrapped in dark hooded cloaks and lurking in the pages of sword and sorcery, epic and urban fantasy, and YA, as…
Monthly Short Story Winner: The City
Idlewilder
Every month in the Fantasy-Faction forums we have a themed writing contest. It’s run throughout each month, and voting on the winner takes place across the month thereafter. Anyone can…
Mom Doesn’t Get Dragons
Zachary A. Matzo
My mom doesn’t understand my reading habits. I believe the exact quote was, “I would think science fiction would be the last thing you’d be interested in.” The fact that…
The Chaotic Champion – Part Four: The Outsider Hero
Nyki Blatchley
Just when all seems lost, the Batmobile screeches to a halt and the Caped Crusader leaps out to put paid to the latest dastardly scheme of the Joker, the Penguin…
Amazon Opens Up Kindle Worlds
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
So the news has hit that Amazon, in its ever increasing hold in publishing, will be supporting sales of fanfiction for certain franchises who have already given their approval. The…
Worldbuilding: Thinking Inside The Box
Aaron Miles
The idea of worldbuilding is familiar to any fantasy writer, and goes with the genre like pointy ears go with elves. There are writers like Tolkien who go all out…
Help Keep Fantasy-Faction Alive
Overlord
Hi guys and girls, Firstly: I hate these kinds of posts, but, in my defense, a number of our members over Twitter, Facebook and the forums asked for it and…
The Prince of Lies Cover Reveal
Jennie Ivins
It will come as no surprise to you that here on Fantasy-Faction we love authors. One of our favorites, who is nice enough to take time out of her busy…
YA Science Fiction & Fantasy – Part Two: From Humble Origins to Lofty Heights
When addressing the origins of YA literature (we’re not talking SFF specific here for now, but bear with me) it all depends from which angle you decide to approach. I…
Fantastical Creatures of Greco-Roman Mythology: The Ichthyocentaur
Welcome to the third instalment in this series about little-known monsters (and other assorted creatures) from Classical mythology! This series is intended to shine a bit of light on some…