NaNoWriMo Type Along with Stephen Deas – Week Four
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 any of the…
Yet another Gentleman Bastard cover. Best yet?
Overlord
Last week we posted about The Lies of Locke Lamora getting a new US cover and, at the same time, posted a ton of awesome The Lies of Locke Lamora…
The Discworld Collector’s Library
After tweeting a picture earlier today of the beauuuuuuuuuuuutiful Terry Pratchett Special Edition Hardbacks by Gollancz that I spotted in my local bookstore, Waterstones in Weston-super-Mare, I was inundated with…
Advice from World’s Largest SFF Writing Contest
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…