The Fair Folk edited by Marvin Kaye
Travis Anderson
I have no doubt that those of you reading this have a fair sized book collection and can admit to owning at least a few novels on your shelves that,…
San Diego Comicon 2014 Report
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
I got lucky once more this year and managed to join the mass nerd migration to the San Diego Comic Convention. As always, the lines go for miles (literally) and…
Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis – Series Review
Victoria Hooper
Kat, Incorrigible is a fun and charming series of children’s historical fantasy books combining magic, adventure, romance and the Regency period, and I’d highly recommend them to both children and…
Trees in Fantasy – Part Three: Trees as Setting
Steff Humm
So far in our exploration of trees in fantasy we have looked at trees as both symbolism and characters across a range of mythic and modern fantasy tales. We discovered…
Using Questions To Expand Your Story
Nicholas Schmiedicker
I think it’s safe to say that we are all daydreamers. Whether you only enjoy reading fantasy or you write your own stories, we all enjoy getting lost in our…
The Relic Guild by Edward Cox
Lucy Hounsom
There are many things to love about The Relic Guild. First and foremost, it neatly delivers the reader into a unique world – rare in the saturated fantasy genre –…
Truth and Fear by Peter Higgins
John Cowell
Truth and Fear, book two of Peter Higgins’s Wolfhound Century Trilogy is not one you can just jump into. It is vast, rich, complex, and without the context of events…
Brent Weeks Interview
Overlord
Running a fantasy blog, I’m often asked who my favourite authors are. Upon giving my answers, people are often surprised that the likes of Robert Jordan, George R.R. Martin, J.R.R.…
Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
Richard Bray
What Half a King does is remind us that it’s not the violence or occasional profanity that has made Abercrombie such a tour de force – it’s his perceptive ability…
Fantasy-Faction Anthology – Website Visitor Edition
Next week we will be getting the first delivery of our Fantasy-Faction Anthology! This first edition print is a special edition that we will be making available just to you…
The 100 – TV Series Review
Kit
I feel that I should start this review by stating that I have never been a super huge fan of sci-fi, in either print or visual media forms. It wasn’t…
Elements of Fantasy – Frogs
Janie Bill
For a dame seeking a handsome, wealthy husband who has an affluent family, all she needed to do was kiss a lot of frogs. Simple and foolproof. The Brothers Grimm…