Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 9
I cut my writing teeth on short stories before turning my attention to novels. I still like to work with the shorter form on occasion.
November 10, 2024
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Finding ERB’s The Land of Hidden Men
Tarzan and John Carter are deservedly famous. But I have extracted a perhaps unexpected amount of enjoyment from several of Edgar Rice Burrough’s less well
November 3, 2024
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Jaunt to San Antonio
The summer break draws to a close. The HA returns to school tomorrow. I took her and MBW to San Antonio for a short trip.
August 11, 2024
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Convention Weekend and the Thief of Time.
I am in Lebanon, Tennessee this weekend, about twenty minutes outside of Nashville, for a small convention. This is my second appearance here. I had
March 3, 2024
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Ursula Bruin
A couple of years ago I wrote a tale for the Heir Apparent. She was seven at the time and ardently fond of a number
August 27, 2023
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The Web Log is Traveling. Plus Savage Journal Entry 34.
Time for writing a post is limited today. MBW, the HA, and I are en route to Mexico. My ambitious goal is to sit in
March 12, 2023
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Vettius and His Friends. Plus Savage Journal Entry 33.
I’ve encountered a few of David Drake’s Vettius and Dama stories in anthologies. But I’d not read them all. Happily, I picked up a copy
March 5, 2023
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Announcing Semi-Autos and Sorcery 4: Silver and Bone. Plus Savage Journal Entry 32.
is time once again to shovel coal into the boiler and get the Publicity Express chugging out of the depot. Karl Thorson’s next adventure arrives
February 26, 2023
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Setting and Sword-and-Sorcery. Plus Savage Journal Entry 31.
Location, location, location. Setting is a vital component of Sword-and-Sorcery fiction. The action needs to occur in some pre-industrial locale, a secondary world, a fictionalized
February 19, 2023
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