Writing Rules and Fantasy: Adverbs
Victoria Hooper
Writing rules concerning adverbs tend to vary from ‘be sparing with them’, to ‘NEVER use ANY adverbs EVER’. Include too many adverbs in your writing and editors and reviewers are…
Disaster Advice from Science Fiction and Fantasy
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
Natural disasters are something that all of us live with regardless of location. Hurricanes, droughts, wildfires, earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes…it’s a really long list of the things that could go wrong…
DestinyQuest – Putting The Game Back Into Gamebooks
Michael J. Ward
We are teaming up with our friends over at Gollancz to giveaway 3 sets of the two DestinyQuest books currently available, The Legion of Shadow & The Heart of Fire.…
Where Is Fantasy Headed?
Ben Galley
Change is good they say. Change is progress. Well we’ve seen a lot of mighty changes in the book industry over the last decade, seismic changes that have redefined the…
The Week In The World Of SFF
Paul Wiseall
Welcome back ladies and gents. How’s your week been? Good I hope. Here’s the week in the very best SFF news and fun from around these fine interwebs of ours.…
The Craft – Part Three: Careers
Adrian Faulkner
This is the third in a series of articles talking with fantasy authors about the craft. You can read part one here and part two here. There’s an old saying…
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
Dori
What happens, when the god of change and chaos goes to war with his orderly brother? Well, he loses the fight, earning himself a prison of human flesh and full…
My God Is Lawful Evil: Alternate Morality in Alternate Worlds
James Calbraith
There are certain common steps that we are all aware of when it comes to creating an alternate world. You probably start with a map, or at least a few…
Change Is Gonna Come…
Sandra Norval
I’ve come to a glorious valley in the journey up Mount Publication and I have to take a moment to stop and stare. Behind me are the crags of the…
Which Writers Are Asking The Hard Questions Today?
Eric Christensen
As I move from summer to winter, I tend to switch from lighter, fun reads to deeper, more complex reads. I don’t know if I am simply echoing Hollywood’s transition…
Dishonoured Review
In one hand I hold a clockwork crossbow. In the other hand I hold a sword that can fold away in a moment’s twiddling. I flit from grubby rooftop to…
The Evolution of Sexuality, Homosexuality and Gender in SFF – Part Three
Leo Elijah Cristea
Arguably one of the main issues hounding the progress and subsequent filtration of LGBT themes into “mainstream” SFF is something that mirrors the treatment of “alternative” sexualities and genders in…