10 Sword & Sorcery Pulp Era Firsts
This month RAGE machine Books is all about Sword & Sorcery. Jack Mackenzie has released his first of two collections about Sirtago & Poet, Blades Read More
Category: J. R. R. Tolkien
Sword & Sorcery: The First Paperbacks
This post is brought to you by the upcoming collection of young Arthan stories, Bearshirt #5: The Beacon House, the fifth book in the series Read More
RAGE m a c h i n e Books at Draft2Digital
One of the main obstacles to being an independent author/publisher is there are so many things that can eat up your time but many are Read More
Fanzines: A Place To Start
This post is brought to you by The Cryo Game and Other Stories, a new collection by Jack Mackenzie. Nineteen stories ranging from Science Fiction Read More
The Legacy of the Tripods
H. G. Wells changed Science Fiction forever when he gave readers the first invasion of Earth by an alien race. (Along with this idea, he Read More
Link: Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?
If you missed the last one… Let’s be fair right from the start and admit: Pulp fiction, all Pulp fiction hates snakes. The old Read More
Top Ten Sword & Sorcery Fight Scenes by Ray Harryhausen
Heroic Fantasy needs two things: Monsters and a good fight scene. Imagine Conan winning in a story by political debate. Or the Witcher settling a Read More
New Book: Monster! on Kindle and Paperback!
contents INTRODUCTION OVERCOMING THE MONSTER: SF, F & H THE MONSTER STORY THE UNNAMEABLE: THE MONSTER AS EUPHEMISM THE VAMPIRE AS LOTHARIO THE WOMAN WITH Read More
Plant Monsters in Heroic Fantasy Fiction
Heroic Fantasy offers sword-swingers all kinds of monsters to fight: dragons, harpies, ape creatures, just about anything you can imagine. The Sword & Sorcery hero Read More
Four Color Dragons II
If you missed the last one… Last time I wrote about dragons with an eye to showing many different kinds of dragons from space monsters Read More