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

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

All, I'll be make by the banner this weekend for the next group read. I need help with some book covers to draw from.

Topics seem to be
1) rpg tie in
2) swords and six shooters

Ideas?

Richard wrote: "The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly: Volume 1, 2009-2011

For some reason it has two entries. Is there a way to combine them?"


One is for paperback, the other Kindle. Any Goodreads Librarian can get them combined...but first the authorship has to sync.
I just cleaned that up. Thx for posting the need.
There are still separate pages (per edition) but their reviews are linked now.

Couple of notes here.

1) Wanted to call attention to one of member-Derek's reviews. He read the anthology Barabarians, edited by Robert Adams (Horseclan author), and brings up some nice perspective on what is and is not a "barbarian":
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

2) Just finished Weirdbook 31, complimentary review eBook copies provided by Doug Draa (see above commentary, or ping me if interested). In all, it was a solid 'weird' collection and great reboot of the magazine. Despite the cover, the 27 entries were largely modern ghost/horror stories and not Sword-n-Sorcery.
My review =https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Adrian, awesome to have you here. Grimdark is a hot topic and GdM gaining traction.

Joseph, you fall ? Glad you can still read.

Mary, awesome perspective. Thanks for chiming in. We had a Female lead / sword and sorceress themed Groupread years ago. About time to have another.

Ashe wrote: "Hell yeah! That series is still on going. A new one came out last year. Thanks, dude."

You were commenting as I was editing :). I think #3 was actually all women authors:Sword and Sorceress III

Here is the link to the whole series:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/5498...

"Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress series has always featured the best in contemporary women's fantasy! These original stories of brave, talented, and heroic women will take readers through enchanted realms of the imagination into danger both physical and mystical, where the only way to survive is through the power of sword and spell. "

Ashe wrote: "It occurs to me to ask if anyone knows of an all lady-author antho. I'm not sure if anything like that's been done but considering how encyclopedic some of you fine folks are, maybe you could point..."

The Mercedes Lackey Sword and Sorceress series comes to mind. I think that was mostly ladies.
etc.

I think #3 was actually all women authors:Sword and Sorceress III

Rick wrote: "Every Writer's Nemesis@ Knights of Writ
Stop by and add your two cents. https://knightsofwrit.wordpress.com/2..."

Hey Rick, I like your blog posts. They seems to cover the mechanics of writing mostly. This thread is biased toward promoting published books.

I wonder if you'd like to start a discussion thread on that topic in the folder called: Writing, Crafting Dark Fantasy-link. You could share your blog links, but also stir up conversation here also. We have a lot of aspiring and established authors here. That folder has been a bit stagnant, and your comments should rekindle its fire.

Dan wrote: "Making solid progress into Swords & Dark Magic. I'm really enjoying it so far. I think it does a good job of demonstrating what Sword & Sorcery represents to each particular authors, even if much o..."

Curious, Dan, on the differences you see in Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery versus traditional S&S. Do the stories at least have swords and sorcery in them?

Ashe wrote: "Hoo boy. It has begun. The sequel to A Demon in the Desert is live on Kickstarter, y'all. I'm still nervous as hell."

Best of luck to you, Ashe. You are genuine flag bearer of the sixgun-and-orc-sorcery crowd!

Agreeing with Joseph: Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues is great anthology for those interested in rag-tag criminals and dark fantasy (most here I presume).

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Personal Favorites: S.R. Cambridge’s "The Betyár and the Magus" blends magic into western-European history—great characters and setting. Equally entertaining & well written was Shawn Speakman’s dose of druidic/Celtic lore; his "The White Rose Thief" made me aware of “Rosenwyn Whyte” a musician with a dark past which I am anxious to read more about. Tim Marquitz ’s "A Taste of Agony" got me intrigued about the “outlaw, eunuch assassin Gryl”, even though the story’s mission was obscure. Anthony Ryan’s "The Lord Collector" offered it all—an intriguing world of assassins, dark magic, and interesting characters.

Will be switching gears to read Weirdbook 31 now.

S.wagenaar wrote: "Due to my vacation out of country (Cuba, baby!) I ended up reading an Andy McNab thriller on the beach (For Valour, pretty good...) and am just finishing a short Spider adventure by the awesome Nor..."

S.wagenaar, did you say Cuba? Wow. Do they have books for sale from the 1950's (like their vintage cars on the street)?

Joseph, I'm working on it. About 75%. Agree it is a nice package of 'blaggard" ness.

Dan wrote: "The username I often use (my g-mail account included) is CoDan the Canadian, so I definitely have an appreciation of the title! :-P"

CoDan is funny

Sean wrote: "Just started the new Weirdbook thanks! I saw that Weirdbook was getting the reboot a little while ago while browsing Amazon and read the first few pages. I met Paul Ganley a while back at EerieCon..."

Sean, very glad to see you back. It was because of your influence many of us re-discovered Brian Lumley's Shad yarns (Primal Land series). Looking forward to hearing your take on Weirdbook 31.

Robert E. Howard, the founder of Sword & Sorcery, was born today, January 22 (1906).

Here is the link to the podcast :

http://jonathanstrahan.podbean.com/e/...

Nolan wrote: "Hello. I have always been drawn to S&S fantasy. I remember it was my father's old Savage Sword of Conan comics that spellbound me into reading anything I could about fantasy worlds. Nothing is more..."

Welcome Nolan...or should...or should we call you Skeletor?