Our Lady Of The Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke
Overlord
Our Lady of the Ice is my latest attempt at broadening my perspective and understanding of the ‘Young Adult’ genre. When I started out on this journey, after the Young…
What Photography Teaches Us About Writing
Nick Clark
Before a photographer takes a photo, a lot of considerations run through her mind: composition, metering, white balance, light sensitivity, aperture size. She does this because she knows it will…
The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher
Stephen Rhodes
The Aeronaut’s Windlass is the latest offering from the talented Jim Butcher. I have been a fan of Butcher’s work for a long time, as I’m sure many of you…
Grandmothers of Fantasy
Nyki Blatchley
It’s often said that, until the past two or three decades, both fantasy and SF were completely male-dominated genres. To a large extent this is true, but not entirely. For…
The Seat of Magic by J. Kathleen Cheney
Jo Niederhoff
The Golden City was a wonderful historical fantasy murder mystery set in an alternate Portugal where selkies and sirens (called sereia) secretly roam the streets and magic can be used…
Fantasy-Faction Turns Five!
Jennie Ivins
Fantasy-Faction began as Marc Aplin’s way to geek out about the fantasy books he’d discovered way back in 2010. His first adventure into the world of fantasy was The Way…
Snakewood Cover Reveal, Map & Extract!
Publishing giants Orbit have been in touch to tell us about a book they think we should be excited about. It’s called Snakewood, it’s by Adrian Selby and it’s a…
How Writing Is A Lot Like Fighting – Part 1: Introduction
I recently read The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson and there was a lot to like about it. With this in mind, I’ve been keeping an eye on the…
Gail Z Martin’s ‘The Shadowed Path’ Cover Reveal
The vast majority of Fantasy-Faction readers will know of Gail Z Martin. I first came across her The Chronicles of The Necromancer series back in 2008/2009 and was quickly gripped…
The Shards of Heaven by Michael Livingston
Eric Christensen
The Shards of Heaven is the debut novel of professor and Writers of the Future winner Michael Livingston. It’s a historical adventure fantasy that asks how heirs to Julius Caesar—already…
Signal To Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Jonathan Thornton
And that was that. You don’t get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you…
Nightfall by Jake Halpern and Peter Kujawinski
Sonia Grace
I tore through Nightfall by Jake Halpern and Peter Kujawinski in about two hours, which should give you an idea of its readability. The book drew me in right away,…