S.E.’s Comments (group member since Nov 01, 2012)

S.E.’s comments from the Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" group.

Derek wrote: "S.E. wrote: "I'm interested in how Lint approached this. Anyone here read the later volumes?"

A very long time ago. I've just re-obtained book two and will start when I decide if [book: Image of t..."

Derek, your review seemed "disaster"... That mean no Lint?

Well, October is "Black Speculative Fiction Month!"

And Milton Davis and Crew at MVmedia (Publishers of
Afrofuturism, Sword and Soul, Steamfunk and more!) have some sales going on.

Many are Sword & Soul of course. Good time to choose something for the Nov-Dec read.

https://www.mvmediaatl.com/shop

Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy: Volume 1
US Amazon link
also available in UK and other places. More info from Parallel Universe Publications



The contents are:

INTRODUCTION - David A. Riley

THE MIRROR OF TORJAN SUL - Steve Lines

THE HORROR FROM THE STARS - Steve Dilks

TROLLS ARE DIFFERENT - Susan Murrie Macdonald

CHAIN OF COMMAND - Geoff Hart

DISRUPTION OF DESTINY - Gerri Leen

THE CITY OF SILENCE - Eric Ian Steele

RED - Chadwick Ginther

THE RECONSTRUCTED GOD - Adrian Cole

The cover and all the interior artwork is by Jim Pitts.

Pre-order page for Tales from the Magician's Skull #5

https://goodman-games.com/blog/2020/0...



Tales From The Magician’s Skull is a magazine of all-new swords & sorcery fiction, featuring some of the best writers producing thrilling tales accompanied by dynamic illustrations from some of the industry’s best.

Issue #5 features an amazing new cover by Sanjulian, which only teases the great material inside. Stories in this issue are by Adrian Cole, James Enge, John C. Hocking, Violette Malan, Adrian Simmons, and C.L. Werner. The magazine is edited by Howard Andrew Jones.

Each story is lovingly illustrated by industry stalwarts, and issue #5 features art by Chris Arneson, Randy Broecker, Samuel Dillon, Jennell Jaquays, Doug Kovacs, Peter Mullen, and Russ Nicholson. Finally, issue #5 includes a short appendix presenting DCC RPG stats for all the new material contained inside!

From: https://www.facebook.com/skelospress/
and from Skelos on Kick Starter





SKELOS IS BACK FROM THE DEAD!!!
SKELOS is back with a vengence! Issue 4 -- Coming soon!
SKELOS: The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy returns with its long-awaited fourth issue. And what a return it is! In a special tribute to legendary late Texas author Bill Crider we present one of his pulpiest and wildest adventure tales. Bill Willingham, award-winning creator of FABLES, makes his SKELOS debut with an illustrated fantasy yarn. Adrian Cole delves back into antediluvian times with a full-length novelette featuring Henry Kuttner's Elak of Atlantis. Peter Rawlik takes us through the Gates of the Silver Key with a Lovecraftian sword-and-planet story. Charles R Rutledge's occult detective Carter Decamp investigates the pages of SKELOS for the first time. Milton Davis returns with the first installment of a multipart sword-and-soul novelette. Cynthia Ward invites us to dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever in the depths of the Pacific. Chris Gruber concludes his bloody, gripping weird western novellette.
Issue 4 will feature many more dark tales and macabre verse that will test the limits of your sanity, with short fiction by Amanda DeWees, Darrell Grizzle, Mary Marshall Highet, and Cliff Biggers; poetry by Chad Hensley, Shannon Connor Winward, William Patrick Murray, Frank Coffman, and Darrell Schweitzer. Special features including an interview with Dracula expert and Bram Stoker descendent, Dacre Stoker; an illustrated classic gothic ballad by Michael H. Price and George Turner; non-fiction essays by Scott Connors, Karen Joan Kohoutek, and Weird Tales legend Donald Wandrei; reviews by Bobby Dee, Dave Brzeski, and Mike Hunter. And to top it off, amazing illustrations by Timothy Truman, Bill Willingham, Jim Pitts, Andrea Rushing, Mark Maddox, Allen Koszowski, Mike Dubisch, and others.

The Joy of Erudition wrote: "You create a basic Twitch account, then link it to your Prime account, and it becomes Twitch Prime."

@Joy. Cool. I linked my accounts. I will stumble my way thru the two interfaces, Twitch and Prime Gaming.

@Joy, Cripes, I have Prime. I'll have to see how that works.

@Jason. I'm not a Twitch user, so I just started looking into this. From what I can tell, the Goodman Games Twitch may be publicly viewable. Subscribers get the chance to comment for sure. Anyway, I signed up for a month subscription for 4usd just to try things out.

Brian wrote: "woops, I didn't see this post and I posted the same under General Discussion. To Jason- In the past, Goodman Games lists these videos on their youtube channel afterwards. No need to register or a..."

@Brian, You get kudos for sharing too!

Sword & Sorcery Writer's Track at Bride of Cyclops Con - sharing from Goodman Games
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Goodman Games just post a wonderful Update on Kickstarter (ostensibly for Tales from the Magician's Skull campaign) that advertises the Sword & Sorcery Writer's Track at Cyclops Con.

I wasn't sure if non-backers could see this (link) or not, so I spread the news here (yes, I simply copy and pasted).  Looks like they are broadcasting the panels via Twitch. Coming in two weeks!

Goodman Games writes:  Sword & Sorcery Writer's Track at Bride of Cyclops Con

Bride of Cyclops Con is our upcoming online gaming convention, scheduled for October 16-18.

word & Sorcery Writer's Track at Bride of Cyclops Con
Bride of Cyclops Con is our upcoming online gaming convention, scheduled for October 16-18. Among many other things, we'll be broadcasting a sword & sorcery writer's track to our Twitch channel! There are four seminars that will air from October 16 to October 18. If you're a sword & sorcery fan, mark your calendar. You'll want to check these out!

“The Best Sword & Sorcery Stories of the 20th Century” – Friday, October 16, 6:00 pm-8:00 pm EST

Six sword-and-sorcery fans and scholars compare notes about the important works in the genre, starting with foundational fiction and moving on to more recent times. This panel will talk details, not just an author’s name, but why a particular story or novel is worthy of note.

Panelists:

Brian Murphy, author of Flame & Crimson
Dr. Jason Ray Carney, author of Weird Tales of Modernity, editor of Whetsone and co-editor of The Dark Man
Bill Ward, Online Editor for Tales From the Magician’s Skull
Howard Andrew Jones, Editor Tales From the Magician’s Skull
Jeff Goad, co-host of the ENnie nominated podcast Appendix N Book Club
“Finding the New Edge for Fiction Writers” – Saturday, October 17, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm EST

Seven modern crafters of heroic fiction and sword-and-sorcery sit down to discuss how they plot stories and create characters.

Panelists: James Enge, John C. Hocking, Violette Malan, Clint Werner, Nathan Long, Adrian Cole, and Howard Andrew Jones

“Getting Sword-and-Sorcery into your Role-Playing Game” – Saturday, October 17, 4:00 pm-5:00 pm EST

Four veteran game masters talk about tips and tricks for getting your game sessions to feel more like a rip-snorting sword-and-sorcery tale.

Panelists: Michael Curtis, Harley Stroh, Joseph Goodman, and Howard Andrew Jones

“Behind the Scenes with Publishers of Heroic Fiction” – Sunday, October 18, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm EST

Where can you find heroic fiction in the modern age? Well, at least five of those places are represented by the members of this panel, who’ll be talking about trends in the industry, how to get your story ready for the editors, and related topics.

Panelists:

Adrian Simmons, Publisher and Editor of Heroic Fiction Quarterly
Christopher Paul Carey, Director of Publishing at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
Douglass Drass, Editor of Weirdbook
Milton Davis, Publisher of MVMedia
Joseph Goodman, Publisher of Tales From the Magician’s Skull
Howard Andrew Jones, Editor of Tales From the Magician’s Skull

same here.

Conan on Netflix?

https://deadline.com/2020/09/conan-th...

"A search is currently underway for a writer/showrunner to pen the Conan adaptation and director to helm the project. Malmberg and Wheeler will serve as executive producers on the potential series through their Pathfinder Media"

We've never pushed Go Fund me here, but in this case it makes sense to spread the word. Milton Davis is cohosting an effort to get Charles Saunders a tombstone

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-bu...






TEAM FUNDRAISER

Jon Tattrie and Milton Davis are organizing this fundraiser.

Created 1 hour ago

Funerals & Memorials

Charles R. Saunders was an important and beloved Black journalist and author based in Halifax, Canada.

He died alone in May 2020 during the pandemic lockdown and, as the medical examiner couldn't find any family, he was buried in an unmarked grave.

Word of his death was made public in September. 

We want to ensure everyone knows that his life mattered. He pioneered the literary genre of "sword and soul" with his Imaro novels, featuring an all-Black cast set in a mythologized Africa. 

We are a group of his friends, colleagues and fans who want to rectify the situation by purchasing a grave marker for Charles and an accompanying monument celebrating his literary life. 

We need to raise the money by the end of October to ensure we can put the monument by his grave. 

Those of us based in Nova Scotia - Sherri Borden Colley, Portia Clark, Paul Bacon and Jon Tattrie - will transfer the money Dartmouth Memorial Gardens to cover the costs of the grave marker and monument

I'm interested in how Lint approached this. Anyone here read the later volumes?

Well I stuck through The Black Tower until the end, but was disappointed:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Too many thought to share. Glad to have finally checked it out, but as an anchor to a series it did not impress.

Sometimes finding the sequels to Imaro can be difficult.
Perhaps via Amazon or used books stores you can ... but keep mind that Charles R. Saunders (and his estate now) has them available via Lulu.

NOTE: they appear under two different versions of his name.

With the "R" ... at Charles R Saunders Lulu


Without the "R" ... at Charles Saunders Lulu

@Clint, I just cracked open my Stephen Jones Zombies collection that contains KEW's "Sticks." Been a while. I love the first paragraph....and the afterward that explains that the protagonist was based off of illustrator Lee Brown Coye. Have you done your reread?

Actually, this thread will turn into the folder, so if you want to get started early you can. Don't expect the banner until ~Nov 1st.

For the Nov-Dec 2020 Sword & Sorcery groupreads, the topic will be Sword & Soul in honor of Charles R. Saunders's passing (by royal decree). The Poll will be used to help identify which books folks want to read and to help buddy groups form. Please add some options.

So Saunders will be a focus, but the sub-Genre he championed is all fair game. Including the works inspiring an HBO series for the Asuna works (Sebastian A. Jones) and all of Milton J. Davis's work too.

Link to Poll

Anyone buy the Centipede editions without spousal/parental consent and want to confess or seek approval from a bunch of book hauling addicts?