Gollancz have gone mad!
Overlord
Just a very quick post to let you know that a ton of titles from Gollancz (including some new, highly-anticipated ones) are just 99p on the Kindle here in the…
Where do you get your ideas from?
James Barclay
Sometimes out of the mouths, well hands, of babes and sucklings it seems… It’s a question many writers dread and I think it’s because it’s so hard to give any…
Dracula vs. Hitler by Patrick Sheane Duncan
Charlie Hopkins
Ravaged by the Nazi Secret Service during World War II, Romanian resistance forces turn to one of their leaders, Professor Van Helsing for any way out. To fight these monstrous…
Nothing Is As It Seems
Edward Cox
I’ve always referred to The Relic Guild Trilogy as a single story chopped up into three books. Mostly because it’s true. It is the tale of a secret band of…
The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster
Jonathan Thornton
This review contains spoilers. Please read with caution if you have yet to finish the story. Tor’s novella series was started in 2015, with the aim of promoting this shorter…
The Key by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren
Jo Niederhoff
This review contains spoilers. Read with caution if you have yet to finish Fire (Eld) and The Key (Nyckeln). Engelsfors has been saved from the cult of positivity that attempted…
Off Leash by Daniel Potter – SPFBO Review: And Then There Were Four
Laura M. Hughes
The SPFBO team are making steady progress in our search for a finalist. To avoid cruelly stretching things out, we’ll be posting (in no particular order) individual reviews for those…
Valley of Embers by Steven Kelliher
Tough to be young or old in this Valley of ours. The night is dark and full of terrors, especially for the besieged inhabitants of the Valley of Embers. In…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Known Title, Unknown Story
Xiagan
The name of the short story must be that of a fantasy bestseller but the story isn’t allowed to have anything to do with the original book. So if your…
Time Siege by Wesley Chu
Stephen Rhodes
Time Siege, by Wesley Chu, is the second book in the Time Salvager series. It picks up right where the first book left off. James Griffin-Mars and his allies are…
Emergence edited by J. M. Martin
Richard Bray
Emergence is a shared-world anthology that takes full advantage of its format, building one story atop the next to create a three-dimensional world that ultimately reaches its peak with Edward…
The Sacred and Profane in Fantasy Writing: Who Gives a F___?
T. O. Munro
As I started writing this my five-year-old niece was settling down to a sleepover with my youngest daughter, and my second daughter had just reminded me that we would have…