Cold Steel by Kate Elliott
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
The last installment of the Spiritwalker trilogy, Cold Steel follows the further adventures of Catherine Bell Barahal as she tries to save her cousin Bee who walks the dreams of…
A Thousand Perfect Things by Kay Kenyon
A. E. Marling
If the idea of a scientific adventure to find a golden lotus delights you, try A Thousand Perfect Things by Kay Kenyon. This historical fantasy of an alternate 19th century…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Mazes
Jennie Ivins
Welcome back to our monthly writing contest winner post. This month our contest participants wrote stories about mazes. There were a lot of great entries, but before we look at…
Dark Child (Omnibus Edition) by Adina West
Dan Hanks
Urban/paranormal fantasy? Female protagonist? Vampires and werewolves? I know what you’re thinking. It’s going to be tough to get through this without making the obvious comparison. So I won’t even…
Fantasy Writer’s Resources
Eric Christensen
I think it is fair to say that every writer has a bookshelf containing well-thumbed, go-to resources. Odds are that shelf contains a dictionary, a thesaurus, and a style guide…
Charm by Sarah Pinborough
Phil Norris
This review contains spoilers. If you have yet to read Poison, read this review with caution. How do you follow the re-imaging of Snow White, why with the re-imaging of…
Breach Zone by Myke Cole – UK Cover Reveal
Overlord
Huge News: Fantasy-Faction has been lucky enough to secure yet another Myke Cole cover reveal! I have to say that as impressed as I was with the covers that gift-wrapped…
YA Science Fiction and Fantasy – Part Four: The Spotlight
Leo Elijah Cristea
There is such a wealth of YA SFF that sometimes navigating the shelves can be difficult. At the moment, YA is somewhat fashionable, and that’s good, because when something is…
Why You Should Read The Folding Knife by K.J. Parker
Pornokitsch
The Fantasy-Faction Book Club, proving the wisdom of crowds, has selected K.J. Parker’s The Folding Knife for its September read. With a few weeks to go until it begins, there’s…
Kinslayer by Jay Kristoff
Nicholas Schmiedicker
Kinslayer is Jay Kristoff’s latest installment in his Lotus War series. The story picks up not long after the end of Stormdancer, Shogun Yoritomo is dead at the hands of…
Fantastical Creatures of Greco-Roman Mythology: Orthrus, the Two-Headed Little Brother
Faith M. Boughan
It’s got to be tough, being a younger sibling of famous monsters. Your brother and other siblings get all the attention, the best jobs, and all the limelight in the…
Den Patrick Interview
If you haven’t heard of Den Patrick yet, wait a few minutes. Because today his series is coming out from Gollancz, and Den’s hitting the fantasy scene like Orcrist. Den’s…