NY Comic Con 2013 Review
Jennie Ivins
This weekend was the biggest yearly convention of geeks, nerds, and other awesome people in the Northeast: New York Comic Con. And for the third year running I had a…
Red Seas Under Red Skies – Read Along – Part 2
Overlord
So, this month, after farrrrr too long waiting, The Republic of Thieves has been released. Yes, it has been a good few years since the release of Red Seas Under…
The World of SFF Podcasts
Victoria Hooper
There are so many fantastic resources today for discussing the genres we love, finding out about upcoming books, reading interviews with new and established authors, and getting advice on writing…
Brandon Sanderson Steelheart Interview
Nicholas Schmiedicker
Hello Factioners! Most of you probably know the name Brandon Sanderson, a New York Times Bestselling Author, author of over a dozen stories, as well as the man chosen to…
Red Seas Under Red Skies – Read Along – Part 1
Welcome to the first week of our Red Seas Under Red Skies Read-Along. What a week it was too! I honestly can’t think of many books which start as excitingly…
Urban Fantasy versus Paranormal Romance
Marsha A. Moore
These two extremely popular sub genres are so often confused and debated, I thought a closer examination would be useful and interesting. Similarities Both are types of speculative fiction, involving…
The Rulebreaker’s Guide to the Semicolon
Amy Rose Davis
When I started writing fiction again in November 2009, I just wrote. I didn’t care about what was okay, what was forbidden, and what was tolerable—I just purged my head…
Foundations of Fantasy: The Odyssey
Ryan Howse
More than any other genre, fantasy tends to examine ancient epics. Whether it’s the study of archetypes and ectypes, a historical understanding of narrative itself, or simply a desire to…
Writers Love Readers
Rowena Cory Daniells
Where would we be without them? After all, writers are just readers who ran out of books to read. But seriously, do authors write because we always loved reading, or…
The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch – EXCLUSIVE BOOK TRAILER
You know, The Republic of Thieves was on Fantasy-Faction’s Most Anticipated Book of the Year list for 2011, 2012, and 2013. If we had a Most Anticipated Book of the…
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke
Joie
This is YA fantasy with a dash of horror, although, being in the fantasy genre, the horror part can be fairly debatable. Perhaps it is the YA aspect that renders…
The Aeneid by Virgil
CptNemo
The Aeneid is The Iliad’s lesser-known younger brother. It was written by the Roman poet Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, 800 years after Homer. The story begins directly after…