Monthly Short Story Winner: Cities
Jennie Ivins
Happy New Year Everyone! 2012. It’s hard to believe we’ve been doing this monthly writing contest for a whole year now. At the same time, it’s hard to believe that…
urban fantasy
Control Point by Myke Cole
Mike Shackle
“Write what you know,” is normally the first advice any aspiring author is given. But when you write fantasy books, perhaps it’s not the most practical, as magical abilities do…
Hounded by Kevin Hearne
Some books are just a fun read. They don’t pretend to be anything other than that. They take you to interesting places full of fascinating people where, for a short…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Spooky Woods
Winter is coming. Well if you live in the northern hemisphere it is. I can’t believe it’s already December and next month will mark the one-year anniversary of this writing…
Horn by Peter M. Ball
Paolo Chikiamco
Unicorns. They’re a staple of the fantasy genre, and while there are many works that treat the unicorn with respect, they are also regularly dismissed in popular culture as being…
One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire
Kit
This entire escapade was breaking several rules of life in the mortal world, chief among them the injunction to never, ever go out in public without wearing a human disguise.…
Hammered by Kevin Hearne
Alright, folks. It needs to be said. Kevin Hearne is a genius. There! I’ve said it! While not all of you may agree with my labeling of Mr. Hearne’s intelligence,…
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
“The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city and it’s falling to me to bring order out of the chaos – or die trying.” – Police Constable…
Fantasy Book Club – November 2011: Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Overlord
Hello Fantasy Fans! This month we will be reading Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (titled Midnight Riot in the US). My name is Peter Grant and until January I…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Water
Yet another month is behind us and October is officially here. Last month was a great month for writing on Fantasy-Faction. And next month promises to be even better! For…
Shadow Fox by Ashley J. Barnard
Jared Bruin has felt out of place his whole life. In his current home of London, England, he has few friends, and after his adopted American mother dies, no family.…
Child of Fire by Harry Connolly
Child of Fire is the first novel in Harry Connolly’s Twenty Palaces urban fantasy–well, perhaps urban horror would be a more appropriate term–series (three books long so far), featuring ex-convict…