Category: Article

Posted in 2018 Article

On SFF, Gender, and Expanding Boundaries

Recently there was big news in SFF when author Victoria Schwab signed a million dollar deal with…

Posted in 2017 Article Guest Article

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…

Posted in 2017 Article Guest Article

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…

Posted in 2016 Article

Novel and Interesting Magic Systems Part 2

Welcome back, readers, to the second instalment of my look at interesting and novel magic systems. The…

Posted in 2015 Article

Novel and Interesting Magic Systems Part 1

One of the most enduring tropes in fantasy as a genre is the presence of magic in…

Posted in 2015 Article

Top 5 Books Published in 2015

Well it’s that time of the year. The time of lists. And no review site would be…

Posted in 2015 Article

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…

Posted in 2015 Article Fantasy

The Forgotten Realms

The Forgotten Realms is a fantasy setting which was created by Ed Greenwood in the 1960s, which…

Posted in 2015 Article

Ranking, Rating and Reviewing

It is pretty much a given, in the internet age, that if there is a website where…

Posted in 2015 Article

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…