Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" discussion
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Howdy Kirk! I'm imagining a bar filled with earthier sort of fantasy folks - now THAT would be a terrific con!
Welcome Kirk! look forward to checking out your project!
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Welcome Kirk! Glad you formally introduced yourself.
You headed to GenCon in Aug?
Welcome, Kirk! Griots has been on my list for some time now. Looking forward to reading your work. 👊😎
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Clint wrote: "Welcome Kirk"Thank you, Clint.
Jason M wrote: "Howdy Kirk! I'm imagining a bar filled with earthier sort of fantasy folks - now THAT would be a terrific con!"Absolutely. that would be so dope.
S.E. wrote: "Kirk wrote: "Hello, all. I've been in and out of this discussion group, and it occurred to me that I haven't properly introduced myself. My name is Kirk Johnson. I'm a published author with a soon-..."Thank you, S.E. I don't think I'll be attending Gen Con this year. I'm headed to Stoker Con in May and Multiverse in October. Hope to see some of you there.
Kirk wrote: "S.E. wrote: "Kirk wrote: "Hello, all. I've been in and out of this discussion group, and it occurred to me that I haven't properly introduced myself. My name is Kirk Johnson. I'm a published author..."STOKER CON! Hey man that's in Denver - I live North of there and my company has its HQ there too.
You presenting or just attending? One of my favorite authors Stephen Graham Jones will be there.
I wonder if there are other S&S people from Whetstone etc attending...might be a good after-hours meetup!
Hey Michael, I'll just be attending. They have a lot of great panels, but I'm particularly hyped on their Cosmic Horror panel and Genre Blending in Horror panel.
I imagine there'll be some S&S people there, but I didn't recognize any names in the programming.
If anybody else is going just holla at me and we can do a real facetime with libations.
Hi, I'm Alex James. I'm a freelance editor/proofreader, and fantasy author who lives in Leeds, United Kingdom. I like dark fantasy/sword-and-sorcery, among other genres. I'm here out of curiosity, and out of a need to push myself to explore the bookverse in the hope of learning to find new readers.Writing fantasy for me was about exploring the darker instincts and fighting against them. I'm an author with autism, so this may inform character creation, among other things. My latest book is on preorder: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
Nice to meet you all!
Alex wrote: "Hi, I'm Alex James. I'm a freelance editor/proofreader, and fantasy author who lives in Leeds, United Kingdom. I like dark fantasy/sword-and-sorcery, among other genres. I'm here out of curiosity, ..."Nice to meet you, Alex! Added the cover to your upcoming novel + the Kindle version. Looks awesome!
Michael Fierce (aka Darth Fierce) wrote: "Alex wrote: "Hi, I'm Alex James. I'm a freelance editor/proofreader, and fantasy author who lives in Leeds, United Kingdom. I like dark fantasy/sword-and-sorcery, among other genres. I'm here out o..."Thanks so much, Michael. I was puzzled how to add the cover.
G'day! I'm Rob. I'm a Social Worker living in Sydney, Australia. I heard about this group through the Whetstone S&S Tavern Discord, so it's nice to see some familiar names and faces here.I am a Sword and Sorcery devotee, but I am also interested in Cosmic/Folk Horror and Adventure/Historical Fiction. I've written for fun intermittently throughout my life but have only started taking it seriously this year. I write short stories, primarily S&S inspired by Irish History, Mythology, and Folklore (I was born in Dublin).
Hello, Robert and good to have you on board!
Hey, a fellow-Filipino! Hi Jay! I'm from Manila too, currently based in Davao.
I'm Gilead, I don't write but I am an artist. I came to sword and sorcery through the art of Frank Frazetta on the cover of the Lancer paperback "Conan." Then I expanded to pretty much anything else with a Frazetta cover on it. A couple years later I actually started reading the things, but that didn't occur to me at first I just liked the pictures.I still read mostly Sword and Sorcery including many people here. I haven't illustrated many books lately, but I did do the cover for the the "New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine" that just came out and I'm publishing my own artbooks via Kickstarter.
When Frazetta passed away I realized that no one could fill the empty space he left behind, but I'm trying to do my part.
Gilead wrote: "I'm Gilead, I don't write but I am an artist. I came to sword and sorcery through the art of Frank Frazetta on the cover of the Lancer paperback "Conan." Then I expanded to pretty much anything els..."Hi, Gilead! I downloaded it yesterday or this morning, I forget, and think the cover is really cool. Looking forward to seeing more!
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Welcome Gilead!
Michael Fierce (Gandalf the Red) wrote: "Gilead wrote: "I'm Gilead, I don't write but I am an artist. I came to sword and sorcery through the art of Frank Frazetta on the cover of the Lancer paperback "Conan." Then I expanded to pretty mu..."Thank you I hope there will be many more of those.
Gilead wrote: "I'm Gilead, I don't write but I am an artist. I came to sword and sorcery through the art of Frank Frazetta on the cover of the Lancer paperback "Conan." Then I expanded to pretty much anything els..."Thanks for checking out the magazine! <--- The editor.
Jay wrote: "Crom! Hello there from Manila."Welcome Jay!
Gilead wrote: "I'm Gilead, I don't write but I am an artist. I came to sword and sorcery through the art of Frank Frazetta on the cover of the Lancer paperback "Conan." Then I expanded to pretty much anything els..."
Welcome Gilead!
Richard wrote: "Jay wrote: "Crom! Hello there from Manila."Welcome Jay!
Gilead wrote: "I'm Gilead, I don't write but I am an artist. I came to sword and sorcery through the art of Frank Frazetta on the cover of..."
Thank you!
Hello. I'm Christopher. I'm a freelance writer in Lexington, Kentucky.
Hello! I am Seth Hobbs, and I think you will love my epic new fantasy series. Book one is out now. https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Three-Ri...
My friend David was telling me about your book! But you should probably post this in the promotion folder.
Hi -- I'm Kek, from the UK. I write comics, books, etc as Kek-w -- Fantasy, Horror, SF, Action-Adventure, etc. I got bitten by the Sword & Sorcery / Science Fantasy bug growing up in late 60s / early 70s... reading Mike Moorcock and Clark Ashton Smith blew my mind and it all snowballed out of control from there on LOL
Gilead wrote: "I'm Gilead, I don't write but I am an artist. I came to sword and sorcery through the art of Frank Frazetta on the cover of the Lancer paperback "Conan." Then I expanded to pretty much anything els..." It's a slippery slope! A similar thing happened to me: Frazetta, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, etc, etc. :-)
Kek-w wrote: "Hi -- I'm Kek, from the UK. I write comics, books, etc as Kek-w -- Fantasy, Horror, SF, Action-Adventure, etc. I got bitten by the Sword & Sorcery / Science Fantasy bug growing up in late 60s / ear..."Welcome, Kek!
I am Paul I am new to Sword & Sorcery, I like Conan though.
Paul wrote: "I am Paul I am new to Sword & Sorcery, I like Conan though."Yo, Paul, welcome!
Hello there, Paul! liking Conan is a great start.
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Hi everyone, RJ from southern California here. I know a few of you from other groups and it's nice to see you here along with some new-to-me faces. I actually joined this group a few months ago but just lurked because I didn't have much to add to the discussion. But now I'm reading the collection Kull: Exile of Atlantis by Robert E. Howard so I thought it would be a good time to officially introduce myself.
I grew up reading Sword & Sorcery books in Junior High School in the mid-1980s, starting with Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, then moving on to Elric and Conan and whatever others I could find with cool Frank Frazetta covers in the spinning racks in my school library.
Nowdays I don't read much S&S...or maybe I should say I don't read enough S&S? You know, time constraints, work, so many other books, etc. But I do have a special fondness for the genre and would like to fit more in as possible. A couple years ago I started reading all the original Conan stories and - although I will eventually move on to some of the Conan pastiches - I have decided to track down and read many of Howard's other collections. Kull represents my first non-Conan Howard stories, so I'm looking forward to it.
I look forward to meeting all of you - those I don't already know - and talking books with you. Friend requests always welcome (assuming you're not just trying to pimp your own book).
requested, and welcome, RJ. there's lots of helpful folks here and each smarter about something S&S than I, so I'm certain you'll find this group of benefit.
Jason M wrote: "requested, and welcome, RJ. there's lots of helpful folks here and each smarter about something S&S than I, so I'm certain you'll find this group of benefit."Approved and thank you!
Richard wrote: "Welcome!!"
Thank you!
YARrrr!!!!
Darth Fierce wrote: "Welcome, RJ!"Joseph wrote: "Greetings!"
S.E. wrote: "greetings!"
Thank you all!
C.A. wrote: "YARrrr!!!!"
Back atcha C.A. ;-)
Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy"
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I grew up on Sword and Sandal movies, Ray Harryhausen movies, and S&S comics (both Marvel and DC). I'm not as comfortable as I'd like to be on discussion platforms (I'm more of a face-to-face at the bar kinda guy) so forgive me if I go dark for long periods of time or respond late. Looking forward to running into guys at a con.