Teresa Frohock Interview
T. O. Munro
Today we have the pleasure of interviewing Teresa Frohock, author of several ground breaking fantasy novels and novellas including The Broken Road, Miserere, and the recently completed trilogy of Los…
dark fantasy
Monthly Short Story Winner: Multiple Points of View
Xiagan
Multiple points of view can be tricky to write in full length novels. They are even harder in short stories. This month our entrants had to write a story containing…
Why Are The Worlds of Fantasy Romances So Grim?
Nicola Alter
The genre of high fantasy romance (sometimes simply called fantasy romance), offers what its title suggests. You can expect elements of epic high fantasy: invented worlds, fantasy creatures, magic, royalty,…
Chains of the Heretic by Jeff Salyards
Laura M. Hughes
Chains of the Heretic is the spectacular denouement to a spectacular (-ly underrated) series, each instalment of which is more thoughtful, more entertaining and more accomplished than the last. Salyards…
Veil of the Deserters by Jeff Salyards
You’ll be pleased to know that I’m not here to bore you with generalised, hyperbolic gushing about how much I’m loving the world of Jeff Salyards’ Bloodsounder’s Arc (I waffled…
Scourge of the Betrayer by Jeff Salyards
Scourge of the Betrayer is a book that’s been lurking amidst the dusty, long-forgotten recesses of my Amazon wish list for over three years. Now that I’ve finally gotten around…
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
Richard Bray
If you read the Harry Potter series and thought, “This is a pleasant little story and all, but I just wish everyone at Hogwarts was a blood-thirsty sociopath and the…
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
Lucy Hounsom
When I asked Twitter whether I should buy the first Witcher game, I got a unanimous YES. One gentleman informed me that the games were based on a series of…
The Chronicles of Malus Darkblade – Volume I by Dan Abnett & Mike Lee
Aaron Miles
For Malus Darkblade a feat of heroism involves raiding a coastal village for plunder and slaves, butchering his enemies and successfully bringing back his spoils without being thwarted or assassinated…
Steve McHugh Interview
Geoff Matthews
Today we have the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Steve McHugh, author of the Hellequin Chronicles, an urban fantasy series that currently spans five full length novels and two short stories.…
Painting With Grey: The Development and Popularity of “Gritty Fantasy”
Idlewilder
In the last ten years, the fantasy community has seen an upsurge in the popularity of so-called “gritty fantasy”. However, this sub-genre of fantasy is evident even earlier than this.…
Sins of a Sovereignty by Plague Jack
The story begins in a prologue where we meet the Spider-Witch, her husband and an elf named Adan. We don’t get to see them again until the epilogue. They serve…