How Ideas Become Stories
Aaron Miles
One of the most common questions an author will hear is, “Where do you get your ideas from?” As if that was all you needed to write a successful book.…
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
Rakib Ahmad Khan
Kings of the Wyld is a tale of a wild journey filled with great characters, comprehensive worldbuilding, emotions, and actions to cherish for a long while. Overall, a great start…
Tree of Ages by Sara Roethle
JC Kang
Some books grab you from the get go with breakneck action. Others, with a lovable character in a difficult situation. In many, we are immersed in new, fascinating worlds which…
An Echo of Thing to Come by James Islington
Pippa
An Echo of Thing to Come is the second book in The Licanius Trilogy, the first being The Shadow of What Was Lost. The trilogy is an epic fantasy set…
The Sons of Heaven by Kage Baker
Jo Niederhoff
Whew. Eight books and several hundred years later (or several hundred thousand years, depending on whether you’re counting from the Spanish Inquisition or Options Research and Back Way Back… time…
The A-Zs of Worldbuilding: Building a Fictional World From Scratch by Rebekah Loper
Though I usually don’t confess what I am about to tell you in polite circles, I imagine it will be a badge of honor on Fantasy-Faction: Once upon a time,…
The War of Undoing by Alex Perry – SPFBO Review
Geoff Matthews
“My name is Tay Raining, and this is my brother Ellstone. I wonder if you’ve heard of us . . . I have a birthmark shaped like a question mark…
A Streak of White Hair: Fantasy or Reality?
Nicola Alter
I was recently reading a fantasy romance novel where the main character pushed himself to the limits of his magical abilities and nearly died. Afterward, he was left with a…
Malice of Crows by Lila Bowen
Eric Christensen
Spoiler Warning: This review contains spoilers for earlier books in the series, but nothing beyond what you’d see on the back covers of the books. Malice of Crows, book three…
A Fantasy Geek’s Guide to YouTube: Mythology
Richard Marpole
YouTube is an app, a website and a cultural phenomenon. It’s also a vast and only partially explored wilderness full of content that ranges from dynamic to dire. Whatever your…
Pilgrimage to Skara & Devil’s Night Dawning – Double SPFBO Reviews
Julia Kitvaria Sarene
Pilgrimage to Skara by Jonathan Pembroke Self-Published – July 28, 2016 Fantasy Ebook 3.5/10 stars It has been nearly two decades since Pell Wendt abandoned the power and prestige of…
The Machine’s Child by Kage Baker
I have some very mixed feelings about The Machine’s Child. On the one hand, I think I will always love Kage Baker’s work. The future she paints is intricate and…