Links of Steel, 1/1/2023
This week: Rumors of Kane reprints, Fritz Leiber, The Witcher, Robert E. Howard, dragons, James Branch Cabell, Michael Moorcock, and more.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: H.R. Laurence
“My day job is in film, and I realised last year that my creative outlet had become tied up with what I did to pay the bills. I needed to rekindle my joy in writing, and so I turned back to weird fiction and sword-&-sorcery – the stuff I’d loved writing as a child, and which had perhaps been squeezed out by adult life.”
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 12/25/2022
This week: Elric, Conan, Celtic weird fiction, Karl Edward Wagner, H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury’s collaboration with Leigh Brackett, and more.
Read MoreUpdates to the DMR Books 2023 Release Schedule
Glenn 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 MoreAt the End: Zothique, Dying Earth, and the New Sun
Fantasy stories are typically set in either an imaginary world like Nehwon and Narnia or an imagined past like the Hyborian Age or Middle Earth. Then there is the Dying Earth genre which is set not only in the future, but at the end of Earth’s history.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: John Lawrence Rak, Jr.
“People read sword and sorcery fiction because they want some of the tropes to be there. But subverting those tropes without completely ignoring them is what makes a story truly engaging. I choose to subvert expectations a bit and make stylistic and thematic choices that are a little more modern, without losing that classic tone and feel.”
Read MoreDMR Books to Release Tanith Lee's Uncollected Flat Earth Stories
Out of Tanith Lee’s many fantasy series, her “Tales from the Flat Earth” is arguably her most highly regarded. All five uncollected Flat Earth stories will appear in the upcoming DMR Books release, The Earth is Flat: Tales from the Flat Earth and Elsewhere.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 12/18/2022
This week: New Conan and Elric novels, Kane, The 13th Warrior, Virgil Finlay, Manly Wade Wellman, and more.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: Jim Breyfogle
This week the spotlight shines on regular Cirsova contributor and author of Tales of The Mongoose and Meerkat, Jim Breyfogle.
Read MoreThe DMRtian Chronicles, 12/11/2022
This week: Conan, Poul Anderson, Fritz Leiber, Shub-Niggurath, A. Merritt, Cauldron Born, new Startling Stories, and more.
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