Latest Articles
-
Tough Travelling: Apprentices
Welcome to Tough Travelling, a monthly feature in which we rack our brains for popular (and not so popular) examples of fantasy tropes. Created by ... -
Author Spotlight: Anna Stephens
Joining us for today’s Author Spotlight is Anna Stephens! Anna is a UK-based author of gritty epic fantasy. Her debut novel, Godblind, was published ... -
The Hive Reads… The Gospel of Loki by Joanne Harris
Welcome to the second instalment of our ‘Hive Reads’ feature! (You can read the first one here.) After settling on The Gospel of Loki ... -
‘We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Gun’ (Part Four) by Kareem Mahfouz
This is a story that, if you read past the first paragraph, you will soon realise does not take itself very seriously. I wrote ... -
Can Fantasy Truly Tackle the Real Horrors of History? (Guest Post by M.D. Lachlan)
Writers don’t always choose what they write about. Ten or more years ago, when I sat down to do my daily 2000 words, I ... -
Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
Warning: this review contains spoilers! “War eats the victors last.” Stepping back into the worlds of Red Rising was not as easy as I ... -
Write of Way #4 – Write Short Stories
Are you a writer? Are you a novelist? Are you a living, breathing person who owns a pen and paper? Then you should be ... -
Author Spotlight: Anna Smith Spark
Joining us for the Author Spotlight today is the Queen of Grimdark herself: Anna Smith Spark! Anna lives in London, UK. She loves grimdark ... -
D&D 3.5: Wicker the Necromancer Learns about Epidemiology
I started playing D&D on a door in my friend Joel’s basement. We laid it across a coffee table, and it just barely fit ... -
The Night Lies Bleeding by M.D. Lachlan
In its opening, The Night Lies Bleeding reminded me of The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan. We meet Endamon Craw looking out over the ...
