Monthly Archives: August 2021
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It takes a little luck – GUEST POST by G. R. Matthews
Today G.R. Matthews stops over at the Hive for a guest post! He tells us all about his journey from struggling to finish one whole book, ... -
SPFBO 7 – Meet the Batch “Kick Ass”
The seventh Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO) is underway! Check out our introduction here | meet this year’s judges here | read all about the contest’s origins here | and ... -
SPFBO 7 – The Third Quarter-Final
On Wednesday, we announced our third trio of eliminations and revealed that this week’s two quarter-finalists from the “Leaving Home” batch are HIS SECRET ILLUMINATIONS by ... -
MRS CALIBAN by Rachel Ingalls (BOOK REVIEW)
“You know it’s wonderful to see another world. It’s entirely unlike anything that has ever come to your thoughts. And everything in it fits. You couldn’t ... -
CRUISING THE COSMERE: The Final Empire (BOOK REVIEW)
I’m back with my Cruising the Cosmere feature! Now that I’ve completed all the published Stormlight Archives novels until Brandon Sanderson releases book five, I’m moving ... -
SPFBO 7 – The Third Eliminations
Welcome to our Third Eliminations post for SPFBO 7. This week, we have grouped our five brave entrants together into a “Leaving Home” batch. You can ... -
THE HIGH HOUSE by Jessie Greengrass – THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
This is an occasional series of posts drawing on my excursion into the academic side of creative writing, as I pursue a PhD project at Queen’s ... -
A MAN LIES DREAMING & THE LUNACY COMMISSION by Lavie Tidhar (BOOK REVIEWS)
“But there you are wrong, for this is no longer the world you knew, the world any of us knew. That world is dead, everything is ... -
SPFBO 7 – Meet the Batch “Leaving Home”
The seventh Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO) is underway! Check out our introduction here | meet this year’s judges here | read all about the contest’s origins here | and ... -
Tough Travelling: Cities
Welcome intrepid adventurers to Tough Travelling with the Tough Guide to Fantasyland! That’s right, we’ve dusted it down and brought back this feature (created by Nathan of ...









