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
Overlord
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…
The Fantasy-Faction Anthology
It is with great pleasure that I release to you today the news that Fantasy-Faction is releasing an Anthology. Wow, I can’t tell you how great it is to say…
The Great Bazaar by Peter V. Brett
Paul Wiseall
Last year I reluctantly read The Painted Man. I say reluctantly because everyone told me that I had to read it but based on the tagline, ‘Sometimes, there is very…
Rise of Empire by Michael J. Sullivan
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
Since I really enjoyed Theft of Swords, and my habit is to keep reading something until it ceases to be entertaining, I picked up Rise of Empire. As before, the…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Cities
Happy New Year Everyone! 2012. It’s hard to believe we’ve been doing this monthly writing contest for a whole year now. At the same time, it’s hard to believe that…