Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
In the effort to break away from the overwhelming US/European cultural trend that runs rampant through so much of fantasy, I decided to start expanding my reading to a more…
Fantasy Book Club – February 2012: The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker
Overlord
This month we will be trying a book that hasn’t had a huge amount of exposure, and yet, behind the scenes, in the blogging community, it has a lot of…
Why is SF not considered literary?
Max Edwards
Disclaimer: A quick point to make before I begin: the ‘SF’ in the title refers to ‘Speculative Fiction’ and not ‘Science Fiction’, and thus incorporates Fantasy within it. Science Fiction,…
New Year, New Trends: The Punk Genres of Fantasy
Marsha A. Moore
Starting a new year means new goals, new predictions, new trends… Today, I’ve decided to continue my series of articles on the fads of the fantasy genre… what’s the newest…
How I Learned to Love the Flashback
Amy Rose Davis
Editor’s Note: Amy Rose Davis is looking for suggestions on what topic to write about next. Fantasy Writers, please give her some ideas on what you would like Amy to…
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
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
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…