Monthly Short Story Winner: The Deep
Jennie Ivins
In this month’s short story contest, participants wrote us stories about ‘the deep’. There were a lot of great entries, but before we look at the winner, here is the…
urban fantasy
Monthly Short Story Winner: Mazes
Welcome back to our monthly writing contest winner post. This month our contest participants wrote stories about mazes. There were a lot of great entries, but before we look at…
Dark Child (Omnibus Edition) by Adina West
Dan Hanks
Urban/paranormal fantasy? Female protagonist? Vampires and werewolves? I know what you’re thinking. It’s going to be tough to get through this without making the obvious comparison. So I won’t even…
Breach Zone by Myke Cole – UK Cover Reveal
Overlord
Huge News: Fantasy-Faction has been lucky enough to secure yet another Myke Cole cover reveal! I have to say that as impressed as I was with the covers that gift-wrapped…
Tom Pollock Interview
Max Edwards
Tom Pollock’s debut YA urban fantasy novel, The City’s Son, was released in 2012 to much acclaim. With the newest addition to his Skyscraper Throne series due out tomorrow in…
Is Urban Fantasy The Next Genre Neanderthal?
Eric Christensen
In a recent post on the-toast.com, Ginger Clark, a literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd., remarked: It is much harder to sell a new urban fantasy series now that it…
Magic Rises by Ilona Andrews
Joie
Absolutely FANTASTIC. That’s all. Now you can go read it for yourselves. What? You need more? Okay fine. It’s round six of Kate and Curran in all their shapeshifting, sarcastic,…
Monthly Short Story Winner: The City
Idlewilder
Every month in the Fantasy-Faction forums we have a themed writing contest. It’s run throughout each month, and voting on the winner takes place across the month thereafter. Anyone can…
The Blue Blazes by Chuck Wendig
The Blue Blazes was my first exposure to Chuck Wendig’s writing outside of his blog, TerribleMinds. I expected an urban fantasy novel full of hard, broken edges and bloody knuckles.…
Written In Red by Anne Bishop
Being unfamiliar with this author, it was a pleasant surprise to find myself thoroughly impressed with this book. Namid is an earth world dominated by the Others, creatures almost as…
Stray Souls by Kate Griffin
Steff Humm
If you have any doubts about the ethereal nature of urban living then you need to be reading Kate Griffin. The often brilliant Matthew Swift series, starring a formerly dead…
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
Victoria Hooper
Lauren Beukes is probably best known for her wonderful Clarke Award winning book Zoo City, an urban fantasy set in Johannesburg. Like Zoo City, The Shining Girls can be loosely…