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The Storyteller and other tales by KV Johansen is a collection for adults and older teens that will take you on a journey through exotic worlds and times. Demon bears take human shape and devils walk in the north of a world where every hill hosts a god and every river and spring a goddess. The storyteller Moth draws Ulfleif, a warrior-princess who would rather carry a lyre than a sword, into an unfinished tale, and old lays of vengeance and betrayal wake into bloody new life around her. A ... read more

The 2008 World Fantasy Awards will be held in Calgary as part of the World Fantasy Convention between the 30th October and the 2nd of November. The Lifetime Achievement Award winners have already been announced, Patricia McKillip plus Leo and Diane Dillon will be honoured with this prestigious award. Below are the short-lists for the individual categories. Novel Emma Bull, Territory [Tor] Guy Gavriel Kay, Ysabel [Penguin Roc] John Marks, Fangland [Penguin] Will Shetterly, Gospel of the Knife ... read more

The release of the new Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, has been delayed until the summer of 2009. The movie was originally set for release this November and will mean a two-year break between the movie adaptations of books five and six in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter fantasy series. The sixth instalment of the teenage wizard’s adventures was intended to have its Royal premiere on November the 17th. The Hollywood writers’ strike has been blamed for the delay. ... read more

The Bromsgrove Standard recently ran a story on a local boy with a rare allergy to daylight. Fantasy writer JK Rowling sent him the entire signed set of Harry Potter books so that they can be auctioned for the charity, which supports him and others with the same condition. David Jones, who will be nine year’s old next month, is a massive Harry Potter fan and he received the box set after his mum Kate wrote to JK Rowling to tell her about David and the Xeroderma Pigmentosum that he ... read more

Mark A Cropper has obviously taken a lot of delight from the fantasy genre over the years. I greatly enjoyed The Wizard of Rainbows; it is a rollicking read that is thoroughly absorbing. One way in which I can tell if I am enjoying a book is whether I open the book with the intention of enjoying the developing story or just to complete it so that I can start on something else – The Wizard of Rainbows falls into the first category; I always looked forward to reading it and I was always ... read more

This essay originally appeared at The Story’s Story. Patrick Kurp ponders why he doesn’t like fantasy, writing that “[It] feels like a cheat, an evasion, a con game for stunted children.” Maybe: but to my mind, it opens other avenues for looking at the world and goes places realism doesn’t. Good fantasy develops its own codes and limitations; it is different from and reflects our world. In Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, Chuck Ramkissoon says, “Now, games are important. They test ... read more

There was a touching story in the Santa Barbara Independent today. Lyle Hillegas was the former Westmont College President and El Montecito Presbyterian Church Pastor who sadly passed away this week after a battle with cancer. Tom Schmidt, a fellow religious professional, carried him to his garden - a little corner of England nurtured by his own hand and read to him. Lyle’s choice for his last story was JRR Tolkien’s “Leaf by Niggle,” the tale of a modestly talented ... read more

Amazon.co.uk has tipped the latest novel in the children’s series The Inheritance Cycle as a potential Christmas bestseller after it has spent three months near the top of its pre-order chart. Borders began taking pre-orders for Brisingr in January and the retailer expects it to be one of the bestselling titles in the Young Adult category for 2008 following on the heels of Stephenie Meyer’s record-setting Breaking Dawn. Brisingr by Christopher Paolini will be published on the 20th ... read more

Universal Pictures have obtained the film rights to the late Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time fantasy series. In a reported seven-figure deal, Red Eagle Entertainment (who has already adapted the novels into graphic novels) will produce the films, beginning with The Eye of the World. Robert Jordan had intended that The Wheel of Time series would consist of 12 books but his sad death, at the age of 58, has meant that fellow author Brandon Sanderson has been commissioned to complete the ... read more

One month before the publication of Michelle Paver’s Oath Breaker in print, Audible.co.uk can offer the audio-book, read by Sir Ian McKellan, for download in unabridged format. Brief synopsis When he was outcast, Torak was the hunted one. The following spring, he becomes the hunter when he swears to avenge the killing of one of his closest friends. To fulfil his oath, he must brave the hidden valleys of the Deep Forest, where the clans have reverted to the savagery of an earlier time. ... read more