Tara Sim Interview
Leo Elijah Cristea
Today we are lucky enough to have author Tara Sim here to talk about her upcoming novel Timekeeper (Sky Pony Press, Fall 2016). She can often be found in the…
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Graham Austin-King Interview
Geoff Matthews
Graham Austin-King is the author of the The Riven Wyrde Saga. This trilogy follows the fates of a people whose land is invaded by two forces. One they have known…
J. K. Rowling is Better than Shakespeare
Max Freeman
Tell me if you’ve ever read these stories before: – A young male sociopath disapproves of everyone and everything around him, including any of his romantic interests. He changes nothing,…
Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Jonathan Thornton
Every Heart A Doorway is an ambitious mixture of genres. It plays tribute to every portal fantasy you can think of, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland through to Narnia and…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: The Fall of the Three
Everything needs an evocative title to draw the reader in and, whilst not quite the hyperbole of a Sun newspaper headline, these three haven’t truly fallen. It is more to…
The Malice by Peter Newman
T. O. Munro
Peter Newman has followed up his remarkable debut The Vagrant with another exceptional tale, The Malice. In The Vagrant, Newman flouted convention with a present tense story of a protagonist…
Fantasy’s Tricksters
Trent Cannon
Fantasy loves a big, strong hero, almost as much as we love a big, scary villain. We love to see a good, old-fashioned epic showdown, preferably on top of a…
Create Your Own Fantasy Author Frankenstein Monster
Peter Newman
Last year, in the build up to Fantasy-Faction’s Grim Gathering event, it was suggested to me that I would look a lot better if I had Myke Cole’s arms. One…
Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis
Jo Niederhoff
In my life, I’ve found that there are a few different sorts of books I wind up reading. Some are gifts. Some are books I explicitly sought out. And some…
Learning from Script and Screen
Aaron Miles
It’s important for a writer to learn about their craft wherever they can, for most this takes the form of studying the work of successful authors or flicking through a…
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
Tor’s novella series was started in 2015, with the aim of promoting this shorter medium. The line includes both established authors and those just making their debut, and has included…
Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #2: Cover Up?
We’ve had a look at the covers to all 30 books on the Fantasy-Faction list for the Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off and picked our favourite three. Why did we do…