Amazon’s Best SFF of 2013
Overlord
Amazon have released a list of books that they consider to be the top 20 SFF books of 2013. Although I imagine Fantasy-Faction’s Best of 2013 list will be fairly…
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Hour long presentation on Writing Muslim American Fantasy by Saldin Ahmed
Grand Rapids Community College‘s library (of which this video holds all right and deserves all credit for) hosted an evening with Saladin Ahmed, an award-winning science fiction-fantasy author. You can…
Short, Sweet Interview with Terry Brooks
I have just stumbled across an awesome interview between an Italian fan and bestselling fantasy author Terry Brooks. In this fun, lighthearted interview Terry talks a bit about why people…
Finally, World can finish Michael J. Sullivan’s books
A few months back one of Fantasy-Faction’s forum members wrote to renowned author Michael J. Sullivan (also a forum member) to ask why his books weren’t available to certain countries……
Major TV Broadcasters ‘intrigued by fantasy’
There has been much talk and speculation over the past few years about whether the success of the television adaption of A Game of Thrones would open doors for more…
Want 7 Free Chapters of 2014’s Best Fantasy?
A few weeks back we spoke about how one of 2014’s most highly touted Fantasy novels was having the first seven chapters serialised through Tor.com. Well, having now finished their…
Yet another Gentleman Bastard cover. Best yet?
Last week we posted about The Lies of Locke Lamora getting a new US cover and, at the same time, posted a ton of awesome The Lies of Locke Lamora…
The Discworld Collector’s Library
After tweeting a picture earlier today of the beauuuuuuuuuuuutiful Terry Pratchett Special Edition Hardbacks by Gollancz that I spotted in my local bookstore, Waterstones in Weston-super-Mare, I was inundated with…
Advice from World’s Largest SFF Writing Contest
The judges of the World’s largest Science Fiction and Fantasy writing contest have issued a Press Release revealing that the main rejection point for all entrants is setting, character description…
Ken Liu: Hugo, Nebula & WF Award Winner Sells First Novel
Ken Liu, who has won Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for his short stories, including Paper Menagerie which you can read in full here, and has been published in…
The nation’s favourite children’s book is…
OK, so it probably doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone… anywhere… but after polling over 24,000 people The Book Trust has reveled that the nation’s favourite children’s book is…
Name of The WInd on Kindle for £1.49!!!
In what can only be described as one of the best awesomeness to penny deals of all time, Amazon have decided to offer up The Name of The Wind for…