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New Game of Thrones Covers (UK)
The UK’s largest bookstore chain revealed this week that they have decided to give George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series a brand new look. The brief…
Get Fit watching Game of Thrones
So, I was reading Men’s Fitness Magazine today when I came across a Game of Thrones fitness game. I guess you wouldn’t generally consider watching your favourite television series as…
Aurealis Awards: Finalists Announced
The Aurealis Awards were established in 1995 by Chimaera Publications, the publishers of Aurealis magazine, to recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror writers. And, although a…
Neil Gaiman on Dundee Literary Prize Panel
Well, this is good news. Neil Gaiman has been chosen to join the Dundee International Book Prize’s judging panel alongside some of the literary world’s most influential figures. Gaiman will…
50 Countries enter WOTF Competition!
One of the great things about fantasy literature is its diversity and its appeal across almost any age, gender or race. Well, this year, the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of…
THE KITSCHIES: Winners Announced!
Last month I spoke about why, and how much, I love The Kitschies Award. Essentially, it is because of their mission statement, ‘to reward the year’s most progressive, intelligent and…
15 Minute Game of Thrones Season 4 Preview/Q&A
We’re still a few months away from Game of Thrones Season 4, but HBO aren’t going to just leave us to wait it out… Over the past few weeks we’ve…
Sam Sykes’s Tome of the Undergates just £1.49
If you’re a fantasy fan and user of social media you’ve no doubt stumbled across one of Twitter’s loudest, most outspoken and damned right funny SFF personalities, Sam Sykes. Well,…
Feb’s Top 5 UK Fantasy Kindle Deals
Every month Amazon.co.uk and UK Publishers work together to choose a number of titles to offer to us SFF fans at crazy prices (usually 99p). Unless you are checking regularly,…
Scalzi’s Redshirts latest SFF to be picked up for TV
2014 is proving to be a good year to be an SFF writer. It seems almost every couple of weeks Fantasy-Faction is reporting that another author’s work has been optioned…
Dragon Age: Inquisition’s Lead Concept Artist draws Rothfuss’s Kvothe
Matt Rhodes, the Lead Concept Artist on Dragon Age: Inquisition, has digitally created a pretty damned awesome portrayal of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kvothe. Matt explains: “Process wise, this was a self-inflicted…