Marc Aplin's Blog, page 252

Many people read to improve themselves, or to learn things. I read because it’s usually the most fun I can have at any given moment. As to why I re-read, well, I do that because it’s fun too. I refuse to be made guilty about this. Yes, re-reading means I won’t read all the books […]

I’m sure that the vast majority of Fantasy-Faction fans have heard of John Gwynne by now. John is the author of the hugely successful Malice, which won the David Gemmell Morningstar Award for best fantasy debut of 2012. For good reason then the sequel, Valour, has been highly anticipated and is undoubtedly on many of your 2014 […]

I was hugely  excited to learn that Brandon Sanderson had promised to write live on air for five hours as a thank you to fans and supporters of the Worldbuilders project for helping the organisation meet their goal of $100,000. The reason I got – and still am – so excited about this is because […]

Today we have the pleasure of speaking with best-selling Australian writer, Trudi Canavan, author of The Black Magician Trilogy, The Magician’s Apprentice, The Traitor Spy Trilogy, and The Age of the Five Trilogy. Her newest book from her new Millennium’s Rule Trilogy, Thieves’ Magic, came in at #5 on our Top 25 Most Anticipated Books […]

During my time as a flash editor for various ezines, I’ve read a fair chunk of speculative flash fiction. Some excellent. Some good. Some bad. Some really, really bad. And as varied as the submissions tend to be, I’ve found that a common thread runs through the subs that lean toward being worthy of the […]

I love fairy stories and folklore. I love the adventure and romance alongside the capacity for great darkness, the strange rules that don’t always quite make sense, the sense of an old magic that has existed since the beginning of the world, the ways in which the stories adapt and change, and the odd way […]

It’s always sad when a great series comes to an end, so when Fantasy-Faction heard that our good friend Adrian Tchaikovsky’s tenth book in his Shadows of Apt series, Seal of the Worm, would be his last, we were sorry to hear things would be coming to a close – for now at least. Of […]

Following the success of his first book in the Powder Mage series, Brian McClellan has been dropping hints that he is working on a side project, a Powder Mage novella. The blurb can be found below, but essentially it is the story of a Powder Mage who chooses to help a young commoner at the risk […]

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 we heard they were to be reunited for Mark’s new trilogy, The Red Queen’s War we couldn’t wait to see what the result was. Having […]

A question I get asked almost daily over Twitter is: ‘When will Patrick Rothfuss’s 3rd Kingkiller Chronicles novel be released?’ Every single time I’m asked this question I answer: ‘I don’t know, I’d guess late 2015 to late 2016′. I know it sucks, but Patrick Rothfuss is a busy man and, as he has said […]