Small Press, Big Stories: Fox Spirit Books
Steven Poore
Small Press, Big Stories is a monthly column focusing on small and independent presses from around the world. This month’s featured publisher is Fox Spirit Books. This month on #smallpressbigstories…
City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett
Eric Christensen
Spoiler Warning: This review contains spoilers for the first two books in The Divine Cities trilogy. Read with caution if you have yet to finish City of Stairs and City…
Writing A Successful Query Letter
Jeremy Szal
If you’ve heard about query letters, no doubt you’ve heard how annoying, infuriatingly difficult, and soul-sucking they are to write. And every word of that is true. Writing my query…
Urskuul’s Reading Circle: The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon
Dan Sutcliffe
Spoiler Warning: This review contains spoilers for the first two books in the Bone Season series: The Bone Season and The Mime Order. Please read with caution if you have…
Tough Travels: Adepts
Laura M. Hughes
At the start of every month, Fantasy-Faction will lead you (yes, YOU!) on a tour of the fantasy genre. From high to low, from classics to new releases, from epic…
Wizards at War by Diane Duane
Jo Niederhoff
At long last, I can finally say something I’ve wanted to say since reading Wizard’s Holiday but couldn’t, for fear of spoilers: How about that cliffhanger? I haven’t seen a…
Putting It Right, At Last: Must Read Women Authors in Fantasy
Geoff Matthews
My first article, sent ‘on spec’ to Fantasy-Faction, and written when I was feeling my mortality quite keenly, was a simple affair. I’d written The Stone Road and put it…
Worlds Within Worlds – Part One: Writing a Good Game into a Good Book
T. Eric Bakutis
Humanity has played games for as long as we’ve been able to make up rules and keep score. As we’ve developed as a species, we’ve created thousands of games, and…
The Heart of What Was Lost by Tad Williams
Zachary A. Matzo
Author’s Note: As we prepare for the imminent release of The Witchwood Crown, we now look at The Heart of What Was Lost, Tad Williams’ “bridge” novella. This review is…
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword – Movie Review
Malcolm Pope
You know, it’s always struck me as rather odd that, despite there being dozens of amazing stories about King Arthur and his Round Table out there, there’s never really been…
Top 10 Things To Do in a Fictional Castle
Nicola Alter
For those of us who like a touch of the magical and the medieval, nothing quite beats a visit to a fictional castle. But with all those trap doors, winding…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Story Generator
Xiagan
This month’s theme has many fathers and mothers. Lady_Ty who posted the Shakespeare Adaptation Generator in the Ideas Topic on the Fantasy-Faction forum, Raptori who modified it (we kept some…