“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.”
Richie Billing is the debut author of Pariah’s Lament and runs the Fantasy Writers Toolshed, a podcast on all your favorite platforms. He also puts these on his youtube channel. On March 22nd 2025 he will be publishing his new novella Together We Rise. This novella is a political fantasy inspired by the struggles we…
Brandon Sanderson is a writing machine, the sheer amount of books he gets through is amazing and in the last few years he has become one of my favorite Fantasy authors, two shelves of my library are his books and I will soon need to move to a third. Dalinar Kholin has challenged the evil…
Last year I went to Fantasycon a convention hosted by the British Fantasy Society. (post here) and I loved it. From meeting authors, buying soooo many books, lots of them signed copies, and visiting the amazing panels and talks it was a fantastic weekend. This year it is in Chester and I have my ticket…
For Brandon Sanderson fans we have had some good/bad news. December 2023 was Brandon’s deadline for completing Stormlight 5 and at Dragonsteel (November 23) he let us know that this deadline will be met…. But, we won’t be getting the book until the end of Dragonsteel 2024, so December 7th, 2024 is the release date….
The weekend of the 15th of September I was at Fantasycon 2023 in Birmingham. This was linked to the British Fantasy Society of which I am a member. I traveled down Thursday evening and stayed there until Sunday so I could enjoy the whole weekend. The hotel was the Leonardo Royal (formerly Jurys Inn) and…
