World Fantasy Award Winners
Overlord
It still does not seem real to me that this website, that I set up because I didn’t have any friends to talk to about the fantasy book I’d just…
Patrick Rothfuss responds to Creative Writing Teacher’s ‘fantasy doesn’t count’ jibe
Here at Fantasy-Faction we love Patrick Rothfuss and his Kingkiller Chronicles. I feel Pat is an incredibly intelligent, well spoken man who has done a lot of good in terms…
Keeping the Little Things Undead
David Towsey
We are all familiar with ‘zombies’, right? Senseless, decaying and yet animated corpses that eat juicy live brains’ – as seen in AMC’s The Walking Dead. Well, that’s certainly a…
Cover and protagonist details released for ‘Half the World’
Just yesterday we were talking about how Joe Abercrombie’s Half A King should easily have made Goodreads’ Best of 2014 Fantasy and/or Young Adult list – and we’re still holding…
Fantastical Biology – Part Four: Deep Ocean
Shambralyn Baker
The ocean covers 70% of the Earth’s surface, and yet humans have explored less than 5% of them. No wonder the deepest parts of the ocean have inspired and played…
THE HOBBIT IN 72 SECONDS… Cause you ain’t got 9 hours.
Not everyone has enjoyed The Hobbit movies so far and that’s a problem. Expected to sit at around 9 hours in total, when all is said and done, that’s a…
Goodreads Announces ‘Best Fantasy of 2014’ Opening Round Nominees
The Goodreads Choice Awards have rapidly grown into one of the most influential book awards in the world. Authors such as Mark Lawrence have reported that just a nomination in…
The Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
“Thrown out of the best universities, excommunicated from all the most popular religions and many of the obscure ones, fresh from his recent engagement in Hell, we present Johannes Cabal,…
Traditional Publishing, Self-Publishing and The Pro Writer
Gail Z. Martin
Once upon a time, not long ago, there was ‘real’ publishing and vanity publishing. ‘Real’ publishing paid the author, and authors paid the vanity publisher. The lines were clear. Few…
Rebecca Levene Interview
2014 has been an incredible year for readers hunting for new authors within the epic fantasy genre. To prove it I could point you to some fantastic debuts such as…
Silverthorn by Raymond E. Feist
James Davies
This one was a strange one. When someone reads a sequel, they, in perhaps a blind state of expectancy, naturally believe the latter to be alike to the former, at…
Dear Grimdark… Guest Post by Sam Sykes
Sam Sykes
As most of you know, Sam Sykes has a new book out this week, The City Stained Red. We’ve been lucky enough to get our hands on a copy and…