Are you always on the hunt for the next great science fiction or fantasy read? Do you love discovering new authors and winning free books? The SFWA New Release Newsletter (NRN) is a fantastic resource for readers who want to stay ahead of the curve in speculative fiction.
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Fantasy as a genre tends to run long. One hundred thousand words (400 pages) for a novel is average. But short fantasy: short stories, novellas and novelettes, are a specialized artistry for the fantasy author. The shorter stories have the same amount of world building as the longer novels, but you only glimpse it. It’s
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I’ve only recently become aware of a trope in fiction that I have long enjoyed without knowing it was a thing. I absolutely love Competence Porn. And I like it in more than just the novels I read. I often find myself on YouTube, watching diverse people complete projects like cleaning up overgrown yards, building
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The Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off has been running for a number of years. As the name implies, it is a contest of self-published fantasy, that accepts only 300 books each year, then puts those books through a grueling four rounds of reading and critiquing (with all reviews being made public). This year’s SPFBO has reached the
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Phew! Lots of reactions to my post about Urban Fantasy versus Contemporary Fantasy! Thank you to everyone who responded. There were some interesting answers in there! I found that your responses fell more or less evenly on either side of the question I asked. About half of the responses indicated that all fantasy set in
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