Preparing For NaNoWriMo
Adrian Faulkner
How can it be less than a month until November? It seems like only yesterday that it was summer and yet November conjures images of cold nights, frosty mornings, fireworks…
The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble’s Braids by Michael McClung – SPFBO Review
Richard Bray
At 210 pages, The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble’s Braids isn’t trying to be the next bookshelf-bending epic fantasy that changes the way you think about the genre. Instead, it’s…
What I learnt from Mark Lawrence’s SPFBO
Overlord
About a month back, after fighting our way through 27 novels as our contribution to Mark Lawrence’s Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off, we were able to announce our ‘champion’, Priest (Ratcatchers #1)…
Kingkiller Chronicles Movie, TV Show & Video Game…? YES PLEASE! :-)
It was announced today that a deal had been made for the rights to Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles. Those who keep up-to-date with SFF book/movie news will know that this…
Magic-Price by C. L. Schneider
Stephen Rhodes
Like most people who frequent the pages of Fantasy-Faction, I read a lot. I have many favourite authors who have released several books or even several series. Being a writer…
Angry Robot want your Manuscripts… Again!
In 2011, a genre writer came across the Angry Robot Open Submission window and sent in the manuscript he’d been working on. He made a friend via the AbsoluteWrite forums…
Fantastical Biology – Part Nine: Fantasy Insects
Shambralyn Baker
Insects represent more than half of all known living organisms on our world. They’re found in nearly all environments, even in the ocean. And yet, it’s so rare to see…
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
Alister Davison
If you’d asked me ten years ago what I thought of fantasy, I’d have told you I wasn’t a fan anymore. That’s changed now (thanks to Abercrombie and Lynch), but…
The Traitor: A Quiz
Seth Dickinson
Dear Fantasy Faction, Hi! I’m Seth, author of The Traitor Baru Cormorant (or The Traitor in the UK), an epic geopolitical revenge fantasy about a brilliant and ruthless young woman’s…
Thinking About Food In Fantasy
Victoria Hooper
Food is an essential part of life, but it’s also so much more than just sustenance – food is power and politics, culture and setting, pleasure and identity. Food will…
Laura Lam’s DARK CIRCUS getting a Re-Release + New Covers!
A few years back, whilst morning the loss of Strange Chemistry, we wondered to ourselves what would become of Laura Lam’s Dark Circus series. Laura Lam was surely one of…
Review: Dreamland by Robert L. Anderson
I’ve made a real effort to widen my Young Adult reading over the last year or so. Mostly this is the result of multiple conversations I had with authors at…