Why Do We Need Stories?
Geoff Matthews
Have you ever thought of why we need stories? Clearly, as this site demonstrates, we love stories. We love heroes and villains, adventure and danger, thrills and spills, and, of…
Mark Lawrence
Monthly Short Story Winner: Fanfic
Xiagan
We’ve been getting such good feedback for the short stories our members have submitted in our Monthly Short Story Competition that we have decided to post them on the main…
Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence
Overlord
As with most of my reviews, this post contains spoilers, but for no more than the first 1/4 of the book. Because so many reviews of this book are out…
Scientists find secret to writing a bestseller
Imagine if publishers had the ability to tell whether a manuscript had the potential to become a bestseller within minutes of receiving it… without even reading it. It sounds ridiculous,…
‘Prince of Fools’ gets UK Cover…
Fantasy-Faction are huge fans of both Mark Lawrence and Jason Chan – the artist who did the covers for Prince of Thorns through to Emperor of Thorns – so, when…
Fantasy-Faction’s Best Fantasy Books of 2013
Firstly, and fore-mostly, I want to say a huge thank you to every author, publisher and blogger involved in fantasy literature in 2013. I’ve been involved in the fantasy community…
Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
In my opinion, Mark Lawrence is one of the finest writers of fantasy around today. His ability to craft beautiful, fluent prose is matched only by the likes of Patrick…
The Broken Empire Trilogy: The Allure of Jorg
The following is a guest post I wrote last year for Harper Voyager on the allure of Mark Lawrence’s protagonist Jorg Ancrath. Although most of my references were to the…
Best Fantasy Books of 2012
Something happened about 12 hours ago… Something that was never meant to happen in fact – we reached 2013. So, I think I speak for us all when I say:…
Wheel-Mouse vs All The Crazy Robots
Wheel-Mouse vs All The Crazy Robots is a joint project between fantasy author Mark Lawrence and his daughter, Celyn. Now, I wouldn’t want Mark to take too much of the…
King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
This review contains spoilers for book one. If you haven’t read Prince of Thorns yet, then read this review with caution. You can read Fantasy-Faction’s review of Prince of Thorns…
The Best Of 2011
Right, OK! I know we are a little late compared to the other 2011 ‘Best Of’ lists… however, we decided that we would wait until the initial burst of them…