Last fall DMR Books announced Die By the Sword, the first of what will hopefully be many volumes of new sword-and-sorcery fiction. The response was tremendous, and we received nearly 200 submissions. Selecting the best of the best was no easy task. Only the 11 most excellent stories made the final cut.
Read More“My brother and I visited the Providence Lovecraftian sites. These included the addresses of the still-standing Lovecraft residences and also the specific city sights that had inspired his stories. Significant among the latter was the church from “Haunter of the Dark” and the “burying grounds” featured in multiple stories, including The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.”
Read More“Writing is for the brave. No one is ever going to win over more than a very small particle of the entire reading audience. Write to have fun; if you are not having fun, don’t write. If you are writing primarily for money, well, there are easier ways to be poor.”
Read MoreA Feast of Ambrosia is a collection of stories about two mismatched adventurers, Donalbain and Bingor the Arab. Their stories take place in the Byzantine Empire around the year 1000 AD. Feast feels like a real world, there’s always a lot going on and the narrative is descriptive, colourful, and fast moving.
Read MoreA Feast of Ambrosia: The Adventures of Bingor and Donalbain will be available in February. Bingor, a sly scoundrel hailing from Sicilia, and Donalbain, a Scottish bard, are not your typical sword-and-sorcery heroes. Thieving is their main trade, but they have no scruples against burglary, bounty-hunting, treasure-seeking, swindling, and selling information.
Read MoreGlenn Rahman’s collection A Feast of Ambrosia was scheduled to be released next month, but unfortunately it must be postponed. To fill the gap in the schedule for January, we’ll release Swain’s Chase, the second volume in The Saga of Swain the Viking by Arthur D. Howden Smith.
Read MoreDMR Books is pleased to announce the upcoming release of A Feast of Ambrosia: The Adventures of Bingor and Donalbain by Glenn Rahman. The “heroes” of this collection, the sly Sicilian scoundrel Bingor and the Scottish bard Donalbain, have their origins in the small press fanzines in the 1970s.
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