Category: Article
On SFF, Gender, and Expanding Boundaries
Recently there was big news in SFF when author Victoria Schwab signed a million dollar deal with…
The Shelf Life of Secret History During Interesting Times, by Tom Doyle
My American Craftsmen trilogy is a saga of magician-soldiers and psychic spies. It has a backstory in…
Writing Fiction in a Time of Genuine Crisis, by Patrick S. Tomlinson
A funny thing happened to me one year ago today. A random tweet throwing shade at the…
Novel and Interesting Magic Systems Part 2
Welcome back, readers, to the second instalment of my look at interesting and novel magic systems. The…
Novel and Interesting Magic Systems Part 1
One of the most enduring tropes in fantasy as a genre is the presence of magic in…
Top 5 Books Published in 2015
Well it’s that time of the year. The time of lists. And no review site would be…
Top Five Books Not Published in 2015
Well it’s that time of the year. The time of lists. And no review site would be…
The Forgotten Realms
The Forgotten Realms is a fantasy setting which was created by Ed Greenwood in the 1960s, which…
Ranking, Rating and Reviewing
It is pretty much a given, in the internet age, that if there is a website where…
Five Ways to Never End Your Story
Don’t you just hate it when a book or film has so much promise? Interesting characters, a…