The Enduring Power of the Fairy Tale
Zachary A. Matzo
Over the last two weeks, my kids and I have begun watching Once Upon a Time on Netflix. What is it about the classic fairy tales that have kept the…
Curtsies and Conspiracies by Gail Carriger
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
After the delightful impression that Etiquette and Espionage left me with, of course I had to follow up with Curtsies and Conspiracies. Set in the same story universe as the…
The Making of a Cover by Tor UK
Overlord
TOR UK have just drawn to a close their very cool in-depth, behind-the-scenes, play-by-play accounts of how a cover is born, from the point of view of a publishing house’s…
Winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2013
Originally Posted on The British Fantasy Societies Website The winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2013, as announced on Sunday, 3 November 2013, at the awards banquet at the World…
Gemmell Awards for Fantasy – the 2013 winners!
Originally published by Alex Davis on The Gemmell Awards Website Evening all, Well, while I couldn’t make the ceremony myself, I’m delighted to be able to announce the winners in…
World Fantasy Con 2013 Review
Victoria Hooper
This last weekend (31st Oct – 3rd Nov) was World Fantasy Con 2013. This year it was being held in Brighton – only the third time it’s been hosted in…
The Perfect Shadow by Brent Weeks
Brent Weeks is author of what I consider the best fantasy trilogy of all time. The Night Angel Trilogy really seemed to have it all. You had a complex plot,…
Writing Fantasy Gender Stereotypes – Part One: Your Heroine is Too Beautiful
Faith M. Boughan
I’m not trying to open a can of worms here—I’ll say that right off the bat. I acknowledge that this topic is enormous, complex, and encompasses both a dearth of…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Battle
Jennie Ivins
In September’s short story contest, participants wrote us stories about battles. There were a lot of great entries, but before we look at the winner, here is the write up…
New ‘SFF News Section’ on Fantasy-Faction
Over the last three years Fantasy-Faction has earned a name for itself as one of the web’s best Fantasy sites. Every day we provide fantasy readers across the World with…
White Cat by Holly Black
Alister Davison
I rarely purchase a book on impulse – I like to study the form, as it were, to have an idea of what I’m about to get into – but…
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
Juan de Dios Dougnac
As it happens in literature, in videogames a good piece of work isn’t necessarily one that presents new or completely original elements, but one that can take pre-existing tropes, mechanics…