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!
Overlord
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…
On Character Construction
Aaron Miles
When writing in the fantasy genre, it’s all too easy to get caught up in the wonder of the world: the magic, the monsters, the bleak dungeons and shining cites…
The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
Karl Wolfenden
Why am I reviewing this book for a fantasy site? Because it’s fantasy, Jim, but not as you know it. Let me go back a few steps: I’m the father…
New Patrick Rothfuss Book!!!
OK… so… it’s not the one you were hoping for – Hey! Stop cursing me!!! – But, Patrick Rothfuss will be releasing a new book this year, The Adventures of…
Best Steampunk Cover… Ever?
I know they always say don’t judge a book by its cover… but damned… I just can’t help it. And, you know what, typically… every book I’ve bought due to…
Solaris to revive Daniells’s hard to find trilogy
GOOD NEWS! For those who think they have read everything by Rowena Cory Daniells’s – who has stopped by Fantasy-Faction to do a guest blog and an interview in the…
All Is Fair by Emma Newman
Phil Norris
Editor’s Note: This review contains spoilers for the previous books. Read with caution if you have yet to finish Between Two Thorns and Any Other Name. The Duke of Londinium…
Amazon Policies Frustrating Fantasy Authors…Again
Interesting article by Paste Magazine today on a kind of customer behaviour, which they refer to as “jerk-like”, whereby certain customers are choosing to return ebooks after they’ve read them…
Allegiant by Veronica Roth
Joie
The conclusion to a very popular YA dystopian trilogy, Allegiant takes a different road to wrap up the series. Unlike the first two books written in Tris’s point of view,…