Yearly Archives: 2021
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COMPOSITE CREATURES by Caroline Hardaker (BOOK REVIEW)
Composite Creatures by Caroline Hardaker is a thought-provoking dystopian debut which continuously questions what it truly means to be alive in a dying world. Over ... -
Mums Who Made It
Mothers get a pretty bad time of it in fantasy – we’re notorious for being missing, absent, dead, or dying. How else is our hero to ... -
TRIGGERNOMETRY and ADVANCED TRIGGERNOMETRY by Stark Holborn (BOOK REVIEW)
The novella/short novel format seems to have a natural affinity for tales of the wild west from my early school experience reading Shane (38,000 words) by ... -
CLADE by James Bradley – THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
This is an occasional series of posts drawing on my excursion into the academic side of creative writing. Having taken a career break from secondary schooling ... -
Unsung Kickstarter: OUT OF THE DARKNESS edited by Dan Coxon
The Fantasy Hive is excited to announce the launch of a new Kickstarter by Unsung Stories, one of the leading independent publishers of SF and Fantasy ... -
EXODUS OF GNOMES by Demi Harper (BOOK REVIEW)
My experience of LitRPG is still pretty limited having sampled a couple of SPFBO examples but only read two through to completion, the first being Demi ... -
THE SECOND BELL by Gabriela Houston (BOOK REVIEW)
The Second Bell by debut author Gabriela Houston is a beautiful atmospheric blend of Polish folklore, coming of age and dark fantasy. The story centres around ... -
Author Spotlight – Gabriela Houston (THE SECOND BELL)
Gabriela Houston is a London-based writer. She was born in Poland and raised in a book-loving household on the nourishing diet of mythologies, classics and graphic ... -
Navigating Fantasy Maps by M. D. Presley (WORLDBUILDING BY THE NUMBERS)
One goal of Worldbuilding for Fantasy Fans and Authors was compiling and synthesizing all the varying worldbuilding theories and best practices gleaned from fantasy authors and ... -
ONE DAY ALL THIS WILL BE YOURS by Adrian Tchaikovsky (BOOK REVIEW)
This is only my second time reading a story by Adrian Tchaikovsky but I’ve already begun to see how versatile, bizarre and wonderfully imaginative this author ...
