Story Structure – Part 12: The End: Wrapping Up Your Stories
Amy Rose Davis
You can read the rest of the Story Structure series here: Part 1 – Story Structure: Beginnings Part 2 – Revisiting the Three-Act Structure Part 3 – In the Beginning……
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Mike Shackle
“The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city and it’s falling to me to bring order out of the chaos – or die trying.” – Police Constable…
Fantasy Book Club – November 2011: Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Overlord
Hello Fantasy Fans! This month we will be reading Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (titled Midnight Riot in the US). My name is Peter Grant and until January I…
Get Ready For The Kitschies
Pornokitsch
This year marks the third year of The Kitschies. After two years of paddling around in the shallows, we’ve taken the plunge into deeper waters. For 2011, we’ve added more…
The Measure of the Magic by Terry Brooks
Elloise Hopkins
Editor’s Note: This review contains some spoilers for the first book. If you haven’t finished the first book in the series, read with caution. The Measure of the Magic is…
Dead Inside: Do Not Enter: Notes from the Zombie Apocalypse by Lost Zombies
Kit
This book was an impulse buy for me. I actually picked it up the Monday after it was published at a comic shop in downtown Seattle. Oddly enough, the shop…
Finding The Spark
Sandra Norval
I’m taking a breather from my climb up Mount Publication. I couldn’t resist because I arrived at a lovely little village and someone invited me to a party. “You’ll love…
An Unholy Love: Me and My Ellipses
I recently re-read my novel Ravenmarked, and I had a rather eye-opening realization: I have an unholy love of ellipses. It’s always kind of scary to read things you wrote…
NY Comic Con 2011 Review
Jennie Ivins
So over the weekend, this happened: Where could I have possibly gone to see Mr. T, the Queen of Hearts, and Link hanging out as a group? New York Comic…
Written In Blood: A Look At Violence In Fantasy
Jesse Flohrs
The biggest fantasy series right now, and easily the biggest since J.R.R Tolkien first uttered “Hobbit,” is George R.R. Martin’ s A Song of Ice and Fire. From the Wall…
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead by Max Brooks
ChrisMB
Here in week three of Month of the Living Dead, we come now to a piece of the zombie library that probably should have been addressed at the beginning of…
Fantasy-Faction World Tour of Wonderment: The Caribbean
Paul Wiseall
Welcome back to the Fantasy-Faction World Tour of Wonderment where we aim to shine a spotlight on different parts of the world and their contributions to the fantasy genre. In…