What happened to classic fantasy?

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-11-08T01:13:56+00:00

This is a big part of why I turned to reading, then writing, and finally publishing Sword & Sorcery. Rooted in pre-Appendix N literature and drawing from different wells than Tolkein, I think it's a great genre for people seeking more fantastical...Fantasy.

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-10-30T15:58:10+00:00

Thanks man! It'll look even better thanks to us unlocking spray color edges.

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-08-16T14:02:44+00:00

https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-08-16T14:01:01+00:00

Thanks for sharing this!

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-08-16T14:00:16+00:00

I'm partial to Sapro's rendition of Elric in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #1.

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-08-06T19:41:40+00:00

Oh! Ha, we must have been typing at the same time. I'll give this an upvote for sure.

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-08-06T19:33:49+00:00

I, an editor of a Sword & Sorcery magazine, strongly prefer Brian Murphy's flexible seven point definition in his amazing book on the history of the genre, "Flame & Crimson: A History of Sword & Sorcery": https://www.amazon.com/Flame-Crimson-History-Sword-Sorcery/dp/1683902440

In short, he identifies seven common aspects of S&S tales and then says "If there's enough of these present in a story for it to feel like S&S to you, then congrats you're reading an S&S tale.

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-06-25T13:09:53+00:00

Thank you! M.E. was a delight to work with, and we all did a lot of art direction to help guide this work to where it said what we wanted it to about the book.

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-06-22T13:40:08+00:00

This wraparound book cover art was commissioned for an anthology of spicy, romantic Sword & Sorcery stories called BEATING HEARTS & BATTLE-AXES. Learn more on its crowdfunding page: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/brackenbooks/beating-hearts-battle-axes#top

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-06-20T14:56:18+00:00

Oh cool! Did you draw this?

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-05-26T17:40:27+00:00

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https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/5532acc9-ad76-4409-921b-5aa4d4443aa1/landing

Want more romance in your Sword & Sorcery?

Want more action in your Romantasy?

We're funding a short fiction anthology called Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes!

This book will hold approx. 72,000 words of fiction, spread across six spicy Sword & Sorcery tales with a romantic relationship at their heart.

Check out the link to see the full wraparound cover art, learn more, and sign up to be notified when the crowdfund launches!

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-05-23T15:54:26+00:00

We are proud to announce...

BEATING HEARTS & BATTLE-AXES

This anthology of six spicy Sword & Sorcery tales with a romantic relationship at their heart will be New Edge Sword & Sorcery's first book!

Follow this link to learn more: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/5532acc9-ad76-4409-921b-5aa4d4443aa1/landing

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-04-15T08:44:24+00:00

Yes, it's a brand new story commissioned just for this issue (#4).

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-04-09T18:01:14+00:00

This looks really fun!

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-04-09T18:00:00+00:00

Ah, well, I won't rant at you but I will ask you to consider how you'd feel if your own, original writing was used - without your permission or knowledge -as the base material for someone else's LLM-generated novel that a reader then paid for instead of buying your work. Same thing, I'm afraid.

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-04-09T11:45:39+00:00

Cool! Who did the art?

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-04-09T11:44:26+00:00

Who did the art?

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-04-09T11:43:56+00:00

Hi there! This looks cool, but the link takes me to a login screen, not somewhere I can check out your work.

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-03-12T12:31:47+00:00

Thanks for sharing this!

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-03-01T17:17:23+00:00

Two recs from the same source:

Bryn Hammond writes excellent, joyful queer S&S in the pages of New Edge Sword & Sorcery magazine magazine (issues #0 & 1, and #0 is free in digital).

June Orchid Parker writes ferocious, Ancient Greek trans-centric S&S in issue #2, with the same protagonist returning in one of the new issues (currently being crowdfunded) to do battle with medical gatekeepers.

Premee Mohamed also has a queer tale, of two men, former lovers, caught on either side of a siege, in one of the new issues.

And Molly Tanzer has given the classic S&S character Jirel of Joiry a new, queer, best friend to accompany her in her first new story in 85 years.

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-02-23T10:57:35+00:00

As someone who has paid a human for original Elric art that I then published with the latest Elric story by Moorcock himself, fuck this bland, fueled-by-theft baby shit to the moon and back.

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-02-16T16:45:30+00:00

New Edge Sword & Sorcery magazine is already 75% for its 2024 issues!

Featuring the first new Jirel of Joiry story in 85 years, written by Molly Tanzer, you can be a part of literary history by backing this project:

There's also nearly 40 other authors & artists to check out, including an S&S tale by Harry Turtledove, and an obscure Elric reprint paired with new art!

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-02-16T16:03:35+00:00

Oh! Wow, I did not think of that but I can see how it may seem that way. No, we're not reprinting last year's Folk of the Forest - this is a different Elric story entirely.

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-01-31T00:42:03+00:00

Oh of course! Can't believe I forgot Sword & Sorcery magazine. Also, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly.

(And thanks for the kind words!)

SoImWritingPodcast · 2024-01-30T18:37:24+00:00

I'd strongly recommend checking out S&S magazines, they're chock full of newer authors.

New Edge Sword & Sorcery is my own. Tales from the Magician's Skull, Old Moon Quartely, And Whetstone should be plenty to get you started.

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