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)
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)
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)
DMR Announces Glenn Rahman S&S Collection DMR Books will publish A Feast of Ambrosia: The Adventures of Bingor and Donalbain, collecting Glenn Rahman’s stories of the adventuring duo. From the blurb: “The ‘heroes’ of this collection, the sly Sicilian scoundrel Bingor and the Scottish bard Donalbain, have their origins in the small press fanzines in … More S&S Weekly Roundup #30 (11/16/22)
Buhlert Shares Free S&S Story As part of her First Monday Free Fiction series, Hugo winner Cora Buhlert made the story “The Thing from the Dread Swamp” available free on her website. Not only is it (somewhat belatedly) Halloween appropriate, it’s an S&S tale featuring her warrior hero Thurvok. DMR Announces Swain’s Vengeance DMR Books … More S&S Weekly Roundup #29 (11/9/22)
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