In the Face of Adversity: When Loved Ones Don’t Love Your Book
Ashley Barnard
About fifteen years ago, I sent my mom a copy of my manuscript – my very first novel. It was 973 pages long, and was, looking back, pretty much a…
Fantasy Book Club – June 2012 – Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig
Overlord
With a mere touch of your skin Miriam Black can tell when and how you will die. She’s seen old age take its toll, car crashes and heart attacks. Watching…
Peter and Max by Bill Willingham
Mike Shackle
Fairy tales are growing in popularity once more and looking very different from the Walt Disney versions we have come to expect. This summer two movies, Mirror Mirror and Snow…
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Paul Wiseall
2312 is set, rather unsurprisingly, in the year 2312. A time when scientific and technological advances have helped humanity to spread out and inhabit the solar system. Humans have terraformed…
Literary Devices: Allusion
Amy Rose Davis
One of the most powerful literary devices in the writer’s arsenal is allusion. An allusion is a brief mention of an event, person, story, myth, legend, date, etc. that exists…
The Avengers Assemble Review
Well, The Avengers has just topped the American box office for a third week running, so I figured it’s probably about time we wade in and give it a review.…
Brandon Sanderson’s Self-Publishing & Small Press Releases
I woke up this morning to find an interesting post on the Fantasy-Faction Forums. It was by a gentleman who was going to be self-publishing a number of titles and…
The Man Who Thought He Was King
Yesterday night over 1,350 people visited a thread on Fantasy-Faction by a self-published author named M. R. Mathias. I hate to further bring attention to what has since been called:…
Alexander Death by J. L. Bryan
Kit
“There are many shades of gray between good and evil, Jenny, and the lighter shades are to be preferred, if we cannot have pure white.” Alexander Death is the third…
Empire of the Saviours by A. J. Dalton
Elloise Hopkins
The world of Empire of the Saviours is a place where the people live under the control of the saints and, in turn, the saints work under the command of…
King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
This review contains spoilers for book one. If you haven’t read Prince of Thorns yet, then read this review with caution. You can read Fantasy-Faction’s review of Prince of Thorns…
Literary Devices: Foreshadowing
It’s every high school English Lit teacher’s first lesson on criticism, it seems. One of those things that’s fairly easy to teach, understand, and look for, foreshadowing is, at its…