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
Amy Rose Davis
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…
Quidditch Through the Ages by J. K. Rowling
It’s amazing what you’ll find in your personal library when you look around, isn’t it? While perusing through my bookshelves for something to review, I came across a pair of…
The Dragon’s Path by Daniel Abraham
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
Among my convention book haul was The Dragon’s Path. It looked interesting and promised to be a novel of journeys and politics and other things that I usually find interesting…
The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie
Overlord
The term ‘gritty’ is quickly becoming overused in fantasy and it’s all thanks to Joe Abercrombie. Certainly, if you look at who earned its first usage and to this day…
Story Structure – Part 11: Climax and Denouement
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……
The Zombie Hunters by Jenny Romanchuk
When one writes a story involving zombies, the preferred setting is one where the dead have not only come back to life, but have also taken over the world in…