Announcement from the Editor It is with a heavy heart that I inform you that this will likely be the last issue of Thews You Can Use. Bringing you the freshest sword & sorcery news for the past thirty-eight Wednesdays has been a pleasure, but it’s also been quite a bit of work! My obligations … More S&S Weekly Roundup #38 (1/11/23)
Happy New Year, sword-siblings! It’s a bit of a light week, owing to the holidays, so let us take this opportunity to wish you piles of gold and a strong sword arm in the twelve months to come. Swords & Sorcery December Issue Arrives #131 of the indefatigable monthly is here, featuring three all-new tales! … More S&S Weekly Roundup #37 (1/4/23)
Cromcast Chronicle #3 Arrives! The third issue of the venerable podcast’s free annual zine is here, featuring all-new fiction, poetry, reviews, articles, even a holiday recipe! Click through for a Cromcast episode introducing this year’s release, as well as links to the free download and the two previous issues. Tales from the Magician’s Skull #9 … More S&S Weekly Roundup #36 (12/28/22)
Whetstone #6 Arrives The sixth issue of the amateur zine of sword & sorcery is here, available for free at their website. It includes thirteen stories by new and returning names, an introduction by Howard Andrew Jones, and a killer cover from Maegan LeMay. As an awesome bonus, author Oliver Brackenbury posted an audio version … More S&S Weekly Roundup #35 (12/21/22)
In what we hope to be the first of a new occasional series, Thews You Can Use asked author Christopher Rowe, who created swordandsorceryreviews.blogspot.com as an outgrowth of his ever-growing interest in S&S, to sit down with editor Curtis Ellett. Curtis is the wizard behind the curtain at one of the longest-running periodicals in the … More Interview: Curtis Ellett, Editor of Swords & Sorcery Magazine
Old Moon Quarterly #2 Arrives The second issue of OMQ is here with four dark S&S tales featuring a mix of fresh and familiar names. Whetstone editor Jason Ray Carney gives us “The Silence of the Rogue,” the excellent Jonathan Olfert presents “The Last Line,” Gabriella Officer-Narvasa sees her first publication in “The Bloody Staircase,” … More S&S Weekly Roundup #34 (12/14/22)
Between Two Fires by Christopher Beuhlman • Ace Books • October 2, 2012 Review by Robin Marx In fourteenth-century France, all hell is breaking loose. War and the Black Plague have ravaged the land. Survivors live in decimated villages, suspicious of their neighbors and outright hostile to outsiders. The wealthy barricade themselves in palatial manors, … More Review: Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
Parallel Universe Releases Swords & Sorceries 5 The fifth volume of PUP’s Swords & Sorceries anthology series is here, and it’s their biggest yet, with eleven tales and a cover by Jim Pitts. Familiar names such as Adrian Cole and Gustavo Bondoni appear among an international cast of up-and-coming authors. You can find it now … More S&S Weekly Roundup #33 (12/7/22)
HFQ #54 Arrives—with new Dabir and Asim! Rejoice! Heroic Fantasy Quarterly has returned, and what a lineup. Tom Jolly gives us “The Stonemen’s Curse,” the inimitable Dariel R. A. Quiogue provides a little sword & planet in “Swarm Time on Maruzar,” and no less than Howard Andrew Jones gifts the world a new Dabir and … More S&S Weekly Roundup #32 (11/30/22)
The News Is Out—Scott Oden Is Signing to Baen! Over on So I’m Writing a Novel, Oliver Brackenbury interviews Scott Oden, author of the Grimnir trilogy and many other kickass novels. They cover a number of topics, including Oden’s writing career, writing Robert E. Howard pastiche and homage, the New Edge movement, and Oden’s recent … More S&S Weekly Roundup #31 (11/23/22)
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