Monthly Short Story Winner: Winter
Jennie Ivins
Welcome back everyone! Big news this month! In January, I hinted that there was something big coming from Fantasy-Faction for short story writers. For those of you who didn’t catch…
Violence and Gore in Fantasy
Amy Rose Davis
Thanks for all of your great article suggestions last week. I’m taking them in order, and up first, I get to tackle one that will probably have me flayed, drawn,…
The Scions of Shannara by Terry Brooks
ChrisMB
We interrupt my regular schedule of reviews to bring up a matter that has caused me to give pause and reflect on things of late. This January (as in the…
A Game of Thrones: Enhanced Edition
Overlord
With the recent success of the ‘Game of Thrones’ series we’ve seen some damned cool products developed that serve as additions to the book and television series. We’ve had an…
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
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
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…