WRITING FANTASY GENDER STEREOTYPES, PART THREE: Alphas, Betas, and Losers, Oh My!
Faith M. Boughan
This is 3 of a series on ‘Writing Fantasy Gender Stereotypes’, if you missed part one you can read it here and also, part two here. In our discussion of…
Empire State by Adam Christopher
Overlord
So, essentially, we as fantasy fans don’t mind a bit of repetition. In fact, I think the majority of us would admit that within our genre there isn’t a huge…
Interview with Seanan McGuire
I had the recent fortune to sit down with Seanan McGuire, one of urban fantasies finest wordsmiths, at Borderlands Cafe here in San Francisco, to discuss life as a new…
The Worm Ouroboros by Eric Rucker Eddison
Nyki Blatchley
We all know what epic fantasy is supposed to be like. It should involve a vast war between good and evil (or at least between significantly better and significantly worse)…
Interview with Mazarkis Williams
Leo Elijah Cristea
Mazarkis Williams is a brand new SFF writer, who burst onto the shelves in late October, with his début The Emperor’s Knife, the first of a smashing new trilogy—The Tower…
Description in Fantasy: Finding the Sweet Spot
Amy Rose Davis
We fantasy authors do have our demons, don’t we? Besides those in our stories, I mean. We’re prone to prologues and infodumps. We think a novel of 150,000 words is…
Giant Thief by David Tallerman
Do you remember when giants were ‘in’? No? Well, actually – neither do I. Probably because giants had their hey-day many, many years ago. Hercules met a few, David took…
Motivation and characterisation.
Lady Rosalie Skinner
Welcome to 2012. During the holiday season I have been looking over my own manuscripts and delving into the motivation driving my characters. I believe as fantasy authors, we need…
Myke Cole Interview
Jennie Ivins
Myke Cole is the author of the soon to be released, military fantasy series Shadow Ops. As a security contractor, government civilian, and military officer, Myke’s career has run the…
Republic of Thieves – Autumn
We are huge fans of Scott Lynch here at Fantasy-Faction and therefore we are saddened by the news that Scott’s book is being delayed a little longer. At the same…
City of Ruin by Mark Charan Newton
Dominic Stevens
Often these reviews begin with comparing the writer in question with another; or even to a combination of two or even three writers. The novel features boats, then compare the…
Culture Building Through Holidays
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an archaeologist. This desire had nothing to do with Indiana Jones. I wanted to dig up bones and potsherds before the…