#fantasy-faction

[autumn2may]

GUYS DO NOT GIVE YOUR MANUSCRIPT TO AN AI THIS IS A BAD IDEA ON EVERY LEVEL DON'T DO IT

original tweet from @jamesjyu reads: "We launch Shrink Ray today on Sudowrite! Upload your manuscript and get loglines, blurbs, synopsis, and full outlines automatically. Takes a ton of legwork out of book marketing. Below the tweet are two images of the program."

original quote tweet from @sudowrite reads: "New in Sudowrite: Upload your whole novel/script, get instant longlines (sic), blurbs, synopsis, and outline!"

tweet from @FantasyFaction reads: "Oh jeez! Bad bad, very bad! Writers DO NOT willingly give your manuscript to an AI so it can "learn" by stealing your work! I know blurbs and synopses are hard, but PLEASE do not do this! - JI 🐉

(stolen from ML Brennan & Sravani Hotha so I can include alt text)"

[autumn2may]

Today JC Kang reviews Shen Tao's debut, The Poet Empress! 🐉

"We sometimes read a book that makes us question whether or not we have any business writing…for me, most recently with Shen Tao’s debut, The Poet Empress."

[autumn2may]

Today we have the pleasure of interviewing friend of the site, author @aughtpunk about her upcoming LGBTQIA+ science fiction novel, Echo of the Larkspur! 🐉

[autumn2may]

Stolen from Threads: Who's your favorite SciFi author?

My Answer: No!!! You can't make me choose!!! D:

So I won't. 😃 My favs in no particular order:

Adrian Tchaikovsky G. R. Matthews A. A. Freeman @aughtpunk Martha Wells H. G. Wells Jeff VanderMeer Andy Weir Hugh Howey Ann Leckie Ray Bradbury Madeleine L'Engle

My Question: Who's your fav SciFi author(s)? 🐉🚀

[autumn2may]

ICYMI: Kellie Doherty talks about how to make travel in fantasy more interesting! 🐉

"You don’t need have your characters travel by horseback, sail on a boat, or even walk everywhere. Now this would be hyper specific to the kind of world you’re building, but try to think about unique ways your characters could journey through the land. Maybe the characters can fast-travel by magic, but it demands a specific and steep price to do so, or maybe they have unique non-horse mounts that you’ve imagined and would like to show off, like a dragon or something."

[autumn2may]

Today Angela Boord reviews @oleandercraw's upcoming novel, Devouring Fortune! 🐉

"Easily the best book I’ve read this year, trad or indie … a character-driven dark science fantasy standalone that absolutely breathes its world."

Background image by Christian Bass.

[autumn2may]

ICYMI: Julia Kitvaria Sarene reviews David Green's Charms, Charts, and Conspiracies! 🐉

"[A] cosy fantasy doing exactly what the genre does best: creating a world so warm and full of good people that you feel the loss of it when you close the cover."

https://fantasy-faction.com/2026/charms-charts-and-conspiracies-by-david-green-review

[autumn2may]

ICYMI: Julia Kitvaria Sarene reviews John Linwood Grant's Ain’t No Witch: The Wanderings of Mamma Lucy! 🐉

"A beautifully crafted collection that combines folklore, social history, and a touch of the supernatural."

Background image by Spruce.