Armageddon Bound by Tim Marquitz
Geoff Matthews
If you happen to be Lucifer’s nephew you should expect life to be a little bit tough. Luckily for the ‘hero’ he does not have the horns (though a horn…
Free Prequel to ‘The Cathedral of Known Things’ from Edward Cox
Overlord
We here at Fantasy-Faction were big fans of Edward Cox’s début novel, The Relic Guild. It was a fantasticly written book featuring multiple kinds of magic by an author who…
Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig
The Canon of Star Wars is in a state of confusion right now and long-time fans of the franchise are, rightly, angry. Since 1978, people all around the world have…
The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard
Joie
Zombies and vampires are so yesterday. Angel mythology appears to be the new frontier. The House of Shattered Wings spins its tale about The Fallen, angels who have been cast…
Bloodrush by Ben Galley
Richard Bray
Welcome to the Wild West, he thought. Last stop before Hell. The fantasy genre has long been filled to the brim with coming-of-age stories. Chances are, if you’re perusing Fantasy-Faction…
9 Things I Wish I’d Known about Writing from the Beginning
Rebekah Loper
The other day, I had a lovely conversation with a friend who is also a writer. We both have very similar writing styles, but arrived there from two completely different…
Loss of Identity in Twelve Kings
Bradley Beaulieu
Today we welcome a good friend of ours, Bradley Beaulieu, to Fantasy-Faction. Bradley’s new novel Twelve Kings has been picking up incredible reviews across the Blogosphere and we wanted to…
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
Wei Ming Kam
One of my most anticipated books of this year comes out on September 10th – you may have seen people like Naomi Novik, Lavie Tidhar and Ann Leckie lauding Zen…
So What’s The Fuss About Campaign Cartographer?
Adrian Faulkner
The map has been a feature of many a fantasy novel for over a hundred years. Whether it be Tolkien’s Middle-Earth or George RR Martin’s Westeros, fantasy fans have poured…
Priest by Matthew Colville – Fantasy-Faction’s SPFBO Winner
I was sent 27 Self Published novels to read as part of Mark Lawrence’s Self Published Fantasy Blog Off. The process of the SPFBO is that 10 Fantasy blogs around…
Terry Pratchett attacked by Guardian Journalist Jonathan Jones…
A disappointing article appeared in The Guardian today entitled “Get real. Terry Pratchett is not a literary genius“. The journalist who wrote the piece, Jonathan Jones, begins by telling readers…
The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker
Alister Davison
Time flies: It’s thirty years since Clive Barker’s first novel, The Damnation Game, was published. A tale of Faustian proportions, it – along with his short story collections The Books…