Fans of pulp adventure rejoice! Next month will see the release of Swain’s Vengeance, the first of four volumes of Arthur D. Howden Smith’s rousing saga of Swain the Viking. The stories of Swain, which were based on the Orkneyinga saga, appeared in the pages of Adventure magazine in the early 20th century. With few exceptions, these tales have gone unreprinted since then.
Read More“I am permanently in love with the idea of writing and can write endless thousands of words about a story idea. Actually writing the damn story is kind of a new wrinkle for me. Aside from my Turkael stories in the first five issues of Whetstone, I am working on a pretty wide spread of horror and fantasy short stories to build up my presence a bit.”
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Read MoreAs DMR Books is the preeminent publisher of sword-and-sorcery fiction, it is only right that we should have an ongoing anthology series of new S&S stories. Now, we have that series—Die by the Sword!
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Read MoreDMR Books is proud to announce that we have acquired the rights to reprint the entirety of Arthur D. Howden Smith’s stories of Swain the Viking. For years pulp fans have clamored for a complete collection of Swain’s saga, and now it shall finally come to pass!
Read More“The big publishing companies nowadays will just dump your book on the market with zero exposure. Hence the self-pub route. I'm not banging my head against the wall for years, trying to get in with the big boys, just to have them drop my book and walk away like a dog dropping a turd by the side of the road.”
Read MoreThis week: Arminius, Elric, Tarzan, Jack London, Gene Wolfe, Clark Ashton Smith, Carnacki the Ghost-finder, a new Malazan novel, and more.
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