Help Us Choose the Best Fantasy Novel of 2018!
Jennie Ivins
EDIT: Nominations are in! Our winner will be announced soon! – – – Greeting Factioners! If you are in the US, Happy Thanksgiving! If you are not, happy Thursday! But…
Rex Draconis: Lords of the Dragon Moon by Richard A. Knaak
JC Kang
While Narnia and Middle Earth were my gateways to fantasy, the Dragonlance world of Weis and Hickman made me a fantasy reader for life. Adding to the core storyline was…
Masters of Deception by J. C. Kang
Rakib Ahmad Khan
I would like to start with a confession, I haven’t read any of J.C. Kang’s previous novels and know nothing about the world in which this story takes place. I…
Character Development: Writing Realistic Personalities & Flaws
Carlyn Atkinson
This is the second article in our Character Development series. Click here to read the first article: Character Death and the Ultimate Sacrifice. In writing a novel, many authors are…
The Lore of Prometheus by Graham Austin-King – Cover Reveal & Excerpt!
Those of you who are new to Fantasy-Faction may not know this, but I love SFF art, and am particularly found of book cover art. It won’t be a surprise…
Wraith Knight and Wraith Lord by C. T. Phipps – Double Book Review
A. M. Justice
Spoiler Warning: This review contains spoilers for book one of the series. Please read with caution if you have yet to finish Wraith Knight. When Wraith Lord, the sequel to…
Blood of the Gods by David Mealing
Pippa
Blood of the Gods is the second book in the epic fantasy trilogy, The Ascension Cycle. It follows closely after the events of the first book, Soul of the World.…
Brian Lee Durfee Interview – The Blackest Heart
S. H. Paulus
I’d like to start-off this interview by not asking a question but, stating how incredibly excited I am to interview an author whose work (The Forgetting Moon, book one of…
Editing Your Writing
Toby Frost
Editing is, in a way, the less fun counterpart to writing a novel. However, in writing fiction, the devil often is in the details, and a good edit can make…
A Newbie’s First SFF Con: AKA BristolCon Confidential
Richard Marpole
I didn’t intend to write this article. I didn’t prepare for it, make any notes for it or believe that I was going to be submitting anything but reviews to…
Legacy by Debbie Viguié and Nancy Holder
Jo Niederhoff
Spoiler Alert: This review contains spoilers for the first two books. Read with caution if you have yet to finish the previous novels. I recently described these books as crack.…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #4: The Last Five Fall
Geoff Matthews
* Disclaimer * Writing and reading are subjective arts. What some folks will absolutely love, others will dislike. It is a bit like Marmite in the UK – normal people…