Seven Deadly Swords by Peter Sutton
Steven Poore
For every sin, a sword For every sword, a curse For every curse, a death Reymond joined the Crusades to free the Holy Land from the Saracens and win glory…
This Dreaming Isle edited by Dan Coxon – An Anthology by Unsung Stories
Richard Marpole
This Dreaming Isle by Unsung Stories is a collection of supernatural short stories by different authors inspired by British folklore, British history and the British landscape. Not quite one thing…
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
JC Kang
If GRRM wrote a mix of The Incredibles and Avatar, with a necromancer heroine. Last year, Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone came in second to RF Kuang’s The…
Firefly: A Traveler’s Companion to the ‘Verse
Kellie Doherty
I am a huge Firefly nerd. Like, seriously huge. I’ve watched the show and the movie many times. I took a movie criticism class in college and compared Star Wars…
Worldbuilding: More Than Just Maps
Toby Frost
When we think about worldbuilding, we tend to think of it on a grand scale: maps of continents in the front of fantasy novels, or astral charts showing rival galactic…
RJ Barker Interview – King of Assassins
Rakib Ahmad Khan
If you’ve not see Fantasy-Faction’s Best of 2018 list yet, then you are missing out on some great reads. But lucky for you, we have the author of one of…
Small Press, Big Stories: 2018 in Review
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. So, said the great Sir Terry Pratchett, and in the last year…
Grim Solace by Ben Galley
S. H. Paulus
Spoiler Warning: Minor spoilers for Chasing Graves and Grim Solace. “They say avoiding death makes a man do desperate things, but I tell you, it’s only when you’re dead and…
Witchmark by C. L. Polk
Carlyn Atkinson
“Help me, Starred One. I am murdered.” Witchmark, the debut novel of C. L. Polk and the first in The Kingston Cycle, quickly bicycle-raced its way to my favourite book…
Bloodchild Cover Reveal
Overlord
It’s always a pleasure to do a cover reveal, but when it’s for our of our favourite authors it’s all the more exciting! 😀 Today we’ve been asked by publishing…
The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden – Spoiler Free Review
Pippa
This is the third and final book in The Winternight Trilogy. It resumes directly after the events of the second book, The Girl in the Tower. As with the previous…
Seraphina’s Lament by Sarah Chorn – Cover Reveal + Excerpt
Jennie Ivins
Today I have the great pleasure of presenting Fantasy-Faction’s first cover reveal and story excerpt of 2019! And what better way to start, than with a soon to be debut…