What Makes ‘Epic Fantasy’ Epic?
Chloe Smith
What does the term “epic fantasy” make you think of? For most people, even most well-read, card-carrying members of the fantastic-fiction-reading community, these words conjure an image of a very…
Google Middle-Earth
Overlord
OK, now, if you thought the posters for The Hobbit 2: The Desolation of Smaug I posted up earlier were cool… wait until you see this. You know how Google…
Posters for Hobbit 2 Movie Released
I think that each and every one of us, as genre fans, has a soft-spot for anything with J.R.R. Tolkien’s name attached to it; and this certainly goes for the…
EA & DISNEY TEAM UP ON NEW STAR WARS GAMES
In a move that I’d classify as ‘good’, because I feel EA have tended to create engaging Star Wars games for adults and Disney have tended to make un-engaging games…
Cover revealed for Trudi Canavan’s latest, THIEF’S MAGIC
Orbit books have released the cover art for Trudi Canavan’s upcoming novel, THIEF’S MAGIC. Arguably, it was Trudi’s Magicians Guild cover that really started the whole ‘hooded man’ cover and…
The Shadow Throne by Django Wexler – Cover Reveal
Jennie Ivins
Django Wexler’s first book in his Shadow Campaigns series was well received here at Fantasy-Faction. The series, set in a world of gunpowder and magic, began with the first book,…
NaNoWriMo Type Along with Stephen Deas – Week Three
Stephen Deas
Follow along as Stephen Daes shares his week by week experience doing NaNoWriMo. If you missed Stephen’s intro article, you can read it here. If you missed week one, you…
New Lies of Locke Lamora Cover for USA
Americans have always been a little jealous of the British cover of The Lies of Locke Lamora, so, many of themyou will be happy to hear that the overwhelming success…
The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell
A. E. Marling
If you want your Arthurian legend splattered with mud and blood, read The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell. I love Arthurian tales for the nobility, the tragedy, the love that…
Writers of the Future – Best year yet!
Writers of the future have issued a press release stating that this year’s L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future international Contest has seen an unprecedented quality of entries that…
Politics in Fantasy
Leo Elijah Cristea
The idea of politics is usually a tricky subject: along with religion, politics is one of those subjects supposedly unfit for healthy (heated?) debate at the dinner table, or when…
Amazon’s Best Fantasy of 2013 is…
Online marketplace Amazon know a thing or two about fantasy books, they list around 170,000 of them, so when they say ‘you need to read this book’ you need to…