Banished by Liz de Jager
Hierath
Liz De Jager’s debut novel, Banished, is set in a world where the borders between the realm of Faerie and our own world, the Frontier, are thin and porous. It’s…
Updated: 16yr old Muslim Girl is Marvel’s latest hero & Lady Transformer too
Overlord
A new hero comes to the Marvel Universe next year with her own all-new solo title. Following the epic events of Marvel’s INFINITY, a 16-year-old Muslim girl from New Jersey…
Heroes vs Superheroes
Jesse Flohrs
Greetings, Faction readers! If my writing seems muffled, it is because I write to you from beneath a pile of boxes, books, and clothing, as I frantically prepare for my…
Cannon Fodder: Music
Tegan Beechey
Today I will introduce a topic I hope to return to from time to time: Inspiration. This one word is incredibly important to writers of all stripes, and is the…
Game of Thrones Return Date is…
Well, we knew it would be around this kind of time, but during a press tour HBO have announced that the fourth series of Game of Thrones will hit HBO…
Hugo Award & British Fantasy Award Voting Open!
Nominations for the British Fantasy Awards and Hugo Awards are now open. As is often the case with these types of award, nominations are limited to people who attended or…
The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
KJ Braxton
This review contains spoilers! Please read with caution if you have yet to finish The Wise Man’s Fear. When readers have been waiting more than a year for a sequel…
Way of Kings on Kindle just £1.99!!!
We’ve been posting up Fantasy Book bargains a lot these last few months and they’ve proven really popular. Where as we don’t want to break your bank or floor our…
The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar
Alister Davison
Let me start by admitting this is the most difficult review I’ve had to write. It’s taken me a few weeks to analyse my thoughts and bring them into coherent…
Brandon Sanderson responds to F-F Most Anticipated Award with ‘Words of Radiance’ teaser
I’m sure most of you by now have read and enjoyed last week’s Top 30 Most Anticipated Fantasy Novels of 2014 post, right? Well, if you have, you will know…
Grandfathers of Fantasy
Leo Elijah Cristea
The idea of an amiable, bearded grandfather upon whose knee one could settle on a Saturday afternoon, all tired out after a morning spent building model aeroplanes, or trekking in…
Your New Year Writing Resolutions
Adrian Faulkner
Every January, for more years than I care to admit, I would rather infamously declare to my closest friends that my New Year’s resolution was “to write THE book”. For…