Advice from World’s Largest SFF Writing Contest
Overlord
The judges of the World’s largest Science Fiction and Fantasy writing contest have issued a Press Release revealing that the main rejection point for all entrants is setting, character description…
Writing Combat In Fantasy – Part One: Top Ten Tips
Danie Ware
Writing combat is easy. Writing good combat is harder. Below are ten points–some of them tips, some of them common mistakes–to make sure your fighters are doing/using/hitting what they should…
Ken Liu: Hugo, Nebula & WF Award Winner Sells First Novel
Ken Liu, who has won Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for his short stories, including Paper Menagerie which you can read in full here, and has been published in…
The nation’s favourite children’s book is…
OK, so it probably doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone… anywhere… but after polling over 24,000 people The Book Trust has reveled that the nation’s favourite children’s book is…
Stefan Bachmann Interview
Dan Hanks
Last month I reviewed the outstanding debut steampunk-fantasy novel The Peculiar. After gushing in embarrassing fashion to its author, Stefan Bachmann, about how much I loved it, he was kind…
Name of The WInd on Kindle for £1.49!!!
In what can only be described as one of the best awesomeness to penny deals of all time, Amazon have decided to offer up The Name of The Wind for…
Let’s share fantasy at World Book Night
Back in 2011 there was a bit of a kerfuffle when the UK’s version of World Book Night – a highly publicised night that independent charity, The Reading Agency, runs…
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Samuel S. B.
A few weeks ago, I picked up my paperback copy of Alice in Wonderland and smiled, but then I saw another version of this tale that I have read countless…
Anne Lyle Interview 2013
It has been a while since we first interviewed you on Fantasy-Faction, back then you were just embarking on being a published author – now you’ve just about wrapped up…
Fantasy Book Club – December 2013: Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
Lisa Taylor
Our theme for December was Award Nominees from this year, and our members voted to read Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway. Award List: – Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee for Best…
Final Round of Goodreads Choice Awards Open
The Final Round of voting in the Fantasy category of The Goodreads Choice Awards, one of the most noteworthy and sales boosting awards for authors, has opened up to the…
The Favourite Adjectives & Adverbs of Rowling, Myers and Collins
In what I, as a Literature student, consider very cool – and the rest of the World, as normal people, find utterly dull and pointless – Slate.com have done a…