Amazon Policies Frustrating Fantasy Authors…Again
Overlord
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,…
Academics debate first ever Sci-Fi Story
With Fantasy and Sci-Fi being so popular at the moment, British Universities and Newspapers are really taking an interest in the roots of the genres lately… The most recent project…
Gaiman back in New Mexico English Classes
An Alamogordo school district has decided to once again allow the fantasy novel “Neverwhere” by Neil Gaiman to be used in high school English classes. The district superintendent’s office made…
NaNoWriMo Type Along with Stephen Deas – Week Two
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…
Voting Open for Goodreads Best Fantasy
As Mark Lawrence showed us last week, just by getting nominated for a Goodreads Award a lot of people start taking an interest in your work (and, therefore, no doubt,…
A Dance of Cloaks by David Dalglish
Nicholas Schmiedicker
Editor’s Note: This review contains some spoilers. Read with caution if you have yet to finish the book. More than anything else A Dance of Cloaks is novel that takes…
Free Chapters of 2014’s best new fantasy?
Good news for those of you who make it your mission to track down ‘the next breakout fantasy author’ or simply enjoy reading the very latest in high-quality fantasy literature…
Interview & Writing Tips from G.R.R. Martin
George R.R. Martin has been a busy man these past few weeks. He has done interviews and appearances in both American and Australia… Seeing as you fantasy readers and writers…
Fantastical Creatures of Greco-Roman Mythology: The Taraxippus
Faith M. Boughan
Raise your hand if you believe in ghosts. Oh, come on. You, over there, reading this on your laptop on the bus—go ahead, raise your hand. No one will know…
Jo Fletcher Books – Huge List Under 99p
Jo Fletcher is one of Britain’s most successful editors, having worked with the likes of Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman and Patrick Rothfuss (amongst others) in one of the highest editorial…
Hunger Games Trilogy just £2.29 on Kindle!
Well, seeing as yesterday’s Robin Hobb Trilogy offer was so popular I thought I’d keep an eye out for other similar deals… Today, in the Kindle Daily Deal (so, remember,…