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All panels from Howard Days will be uploaded to YouTube as soon as I get home to Virginia.
Believe me, there are some all-timers this year.
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Sean CW Korsgaard retweeted
Jun 13
BATTLEBORN has launched at Howard Days - and the sword-and-sorcery faithful have helped kick things off with a bang!
50 sales in the first hour!
Our great crusade to bring books to the masses and put boots to asses has begun in spectacular fashion!
And we're just getting started!
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Backer copies go out Monday.
Guys... its real, its in my hands, and soon it can be in yours.
A new age of sword-and-sorcery has arrived.
BATTLEBORN is here.
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Are we mad enough to drive these straight off the presses in Missouri all the way to Texas so we can make a debut at Robert E. Howard Days?
Damn right we are.
Jun 12
Hail sword-and-sorcery faithful.
Backers should have received a boon from us in thier inboxes - and soon their mailboxes!
The rest of these are headed to Howard Days!
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Publishing consolidation and the shift from mass market paperbacks to hardcovers was brutal to a number of pulps.
In the very early stages of chasing down the subrights for a ton of them to look into producing ebooks/reprints.
There was a genre of post Vietnam era military adventure pulp that used to be ubiquitous in libraries and bookstores when I was a younger. <200 page novels about special operators in exotic Cold War hot spots on the hunt for treasure and glory. I used to love reading these.
Totally gone now. Men/boys didn’t just stop being interested in this kind of stuff. I’ve never heard a good theory of what happened to the publishing industry to make this kind of product disappear from the mainstream market. It’s like we all just opened our eyes in 2010 and we were …*here.*
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Update: This story is false.
Audie Murphy had two sons, but they never had children, save one adopted daughter.
Audie Murphy's grandkid couldn't have been kicked out of West Point, because he didn't have any grandchildren.
May 16
One of Audie Murphy’s grandchildren attended West Point in the late 90’s.
At one point, he was doing something he shouldn’t have been and an instructor (officer) informed him of that and Cadet Murphy blew him off and kept doing whatever it was.
The officer tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention and kid turned around and hit the officer’s arm away and said something along the lines of “Don’t touch me…you don’t know who you’re fucking with.”
Cadet Murphy…didn’t make it through West Point.
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Spent the day paying homage to two of Texas' finest sons: Audie Murphy and Robert E. Howard.
Aptly, by debuting an issue of Battleborn Magazine that honors both of them at Robert E. Howard Days.
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What driving from Virginia to Texas for Robert E. Howard Days feels like.
Only less haga and camel-punching, and more Monster energy drinks.
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Awesome! Off to live my Elric of Melnibone fantasies as Dietrich, cutting down all that stand in my path.
In the capital of the Dagdan Empire, powerful fighters gather to participate in the Heroic Games, where the winner is granted one wish.
Which of the four unique heroes will you choose?
👦 Cai
🗡️ Dietrich
👑 Theodora
🎶 Leda
#FireEmblem Fortune’s Weave comes exclusively to Nintendo Switch 2 on Sept 17. #NintendoDirect
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The backlash against vast systemic magic in epic fantasy is probably one reason sword-and-sorcery is making a return.
Magic in most S&S can be summed up in a sentence: It's dangerous, don't fuck with it, and you're probably evil if you do.
If a system exists, its Jack Vance style
Speaking more on this, I went on Reddit to see and this is the funniest post ever. Like just read historical fiction.
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I love Brandon Sanderson, but you need a flow chart to understand his magic systems. And most modern epic fantasy writers don't have his skill in designing them.
Magic in sword-and-sorcery? "There's a sorcerer dabbling in foul forces beyond mortal comprehension - stab him!"
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An important caveat: Surest sign your sword-and-sorcery protagonist is an antihero? They're capable of using magic.
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Sean CW Korsgaard retweeted
Jun 8
🚨COVER REVEAL🚨
In an era of deconstructed heroes and gray morals, we’ve never needed an altruistic, unapologetic hero more than now.
So, that’s what I wrote.
The Lionheart: Icon of Justice is a second starter book in the Age of Adventures.
Zelda in the comment below
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Reminder that sword-and-sorcery at its most masculine in the 70s and 80s still courted a nearly 40 percent female readership. Men's Adventure sold well enough to women Harlequin Romance became its biggest publisher.
You don't need to turn down masculinity to appeal to women.
Jun 8
You know what's funny?
Space King is one of the few recent pieces of Western media that's overtly and unapologetically made "for men", and it leans so hard into masculinity that it's intrinsic to the humor.
It still has female fans.
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A revival or similar shared universe sword-and-sorcery setting has been a dream project of several authors I know.
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It started as a Conan the Barbarian toyline that got the numbers filed off, and then had some Star Wars tossed in.
Now? Conan and the work of Robert E. Howard is in a better place than its been in years... no shortage of good sword-and-sorcery either.
It’s interesting that compared to other toy-driven franchises of the 80s like Transformers or TMNT, He-Man never really found its footing in 21st century pop culture
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Remember: The only reason we didn't get a multi-film Master and Commander movie franchise is because the studio screwed it with the release date.
It opened against Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. One of the best movies of the millennium sent to die against another.
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An old joke...
How does the Walt Disney Company make a brand worth millions?
They buy a brand worth billions.
“Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu” earned just $6.5 million on its second Friday in North American cinemas, an 70% drop from its opening day.
While initial projections saw the Lucasfilm western grossing $40 million by Sunday, that number now looks closer to $25 million, according to rival estimates. That figure would push the film’s domestic total to $136 million through two weekends. bit.ly/4dFC9BW
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Sean CW Korsgaard retweeted
May 27
We've been keeping the artwork for Battleborn pretty close to vest - the better to melt your faces with when you pick up the first few issues - but we figure the sword-and-sorcery faithful deserve a glimmer of the glory that awaits in the first couple issues of BATTLEBORN!
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Sean CW Korsgaard retweeted
May 26
Preorders for Battleborn Magazine Issue 1 digital edition are live! Physicals will follow soon after - as will pre-orders for Issue 2! The hour of face-melting, fist-pumping sword-and-sorcery is at hand, brothers!
a.co/d/07DSDyda
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