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Apr 16, 2023 01:21PM
Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success by K.M. Weiland
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Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development by K.M. Weiland
Dariel wrote: "Mary wrote: "The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History by Tonio Andrade"How are you liking it? I've been interested..."
A related title, Dariel, which I got affordably on Kindle and can highly recommend, is Peter Lorge's The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb.
Bryn wrote: "Dariel wrote: "Mary wrote: "The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History by Tonio Andrade"Thanks Bryn!
Raknar: The Northman by Ryan W. Aslesen
Joseph wrote: "I'm revisiting some childhood favorites: The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander."Love that series. 👍
Tales of the Wild: Sword & Sorcery Anthology by Yazar QuinOver 400 pages of sword swing adventure with a female hero.
Available in Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and paperback.
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@Richard, as am I. It’s another solid collection. I’m on the last story, have been for three days. I need to finish it up and get my review posted. I feel bad that I have fallen behind on my reviews on advance copies, but work life has been rough sailing of late, and I don’t Se that changing soon
FORGE OF THE HIGH MAGE, Ian C. Esslemont's latest piece in the Malazan world.
Monster Within: A Battleborn Mage Short Story by Angel Haze.
Cupcake Girls: Part 5 of The Vixen War Bride Series by Thomas DoscherWhich, despite the title, is military SF
I'm reading issue #10 of the excellent s&s magazine Tales From the Magician's Skull, edited by Howard Andrew Jones.
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Mary wrote: "The Exorcism Engines by Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio"I really like Phil Foglio's stuff but I haven't read any of the Girl Genius. I used to read his What's New With Phil and Dixie in Dragon Magazine wayyyyy back in the day. Also his Myth Adventures comics based on the Richard Asprin series was hilarious.
I am going to give the Larry Correia Forgotten Warrior series a try.
Jason M wrote: "I am going to give the Larry Correia Forgotten Warrior series a try."It's good reading
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*These days, I skip "John Carter and the Giant of Mars", the first half of John Carter of Mars, because it was apparently ghost-written by his son, is canon-breaking, and is kind of terrible.
another prelude story of Raistlin & Caramon. Quite good to my surprise though I still prefer Weis/Hickman
those Rimes books look promising, have you read more than this one?
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I read the first 4 books of Larry Correia's Forgotten Warrior series (book 4 came out recently). I was swapped and gifted them, and told these should be considered among Baen's S&S titles.They are pretty good heroic fantasy. By no stretch of any definition of Sword & Sorcery that I am aware of (beyond the basest 'Have sword, have sorcery, must be Sword & Sorcery), is it S&S. That is not a negative unless you insist so.
Overall it is a good to great story. I will freely admit that if I had not been given all 4 books, I would not have continued after #1. It didn't connect with me. Books 2 and 3 are pretty good, my favorites of the first 4. And I will read #5 whenever it comes as I wish to know how several characters (not really the protag) shake out.
Savage Realms Monthly: May 2023: A collection of dark fantasy sword and sorcery short adventure stories
XLZABK001: Jon Zaremba: Book 01
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John Carter Reboot Series In The Works
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I'm reading Shagduk right now which isn't S&S but a creepy retro horror. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...Next up is The Long Moonlight that my book club buds at Periapsis press are reading. Seems like a mix of S&S and pulp crime. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
I finished this story collection which includes the very first Swords & Sorcery story ever written
Kull: Exile of Atlantis by Robert E. Howard
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started reading the next installment in my Publication-Order reading of the Discworld books
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
Magician's Gambit
(2nd UK hardcover printing)
Book3 of The Belgariad. Slowly moving my way through, I generally break up long series and read other stuff in between so I don't get burned out. Picking this up and realizing that I really enjoy Eddings makes me a lil disappointed that I let so much time go since I read book 2! Ahhh well... I enjoyed all the other stuff I was reading too!
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