“In Azatlan, I've tried to create a world that you won't find somewhere else and to open a window onto cultures radically different from our own. I also bring the kind of complex world-building associated with epic fantasy to the style of faster-paced fantasy one found in Weird Tales.”
Read MoreThis week: Manly Wade Wellman’s Kardios, Howard Days recaps, Jack Vance, Arthur Machen, Aliens, weird fiction, and more.
Read More“I write with my own voice and don’t worry so much about what other writers are doing. I think writers are expected to conform to certain rules that maybe other artists such as filmmakers and musicians aren’t pressured to follow as much.”
Read MoreThis week: Manly Wade Wellman, Elak of Atlantis, Jack Vance, Conan, Beowulf, Dark Sun, and more.
Read More“I am a trained graphic designer and digital illustrator, so I I am shocked at the poor design work that goes into most book cover design in the self-publishing era—it is either amateurish or generic cookie cutter Photoshop manipulation.”
Read MoreThis week: Tanith Lee, Game of Thrones, Conan, Lord Dunsany, thoughts on epic fantasy, and more.
Read MoreSwordsmen in the Sky was published by Ace Books in 1964. Donald Wollheim put together five stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs-influenced Sword and Planet.
Read MoreWhen Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal premiered on Cartoon Network it was a breath of fresh air. Here was an animated series that was aimed at adults that was not a raunchy comedy. It was dark and violent but still had a heart. It was also heavily influenced by the works of Robert E. Howard.
Read More“I like to think that my wide range of influences and perspective as a foreign writer provides a different flavor from American and British authors. American pulp is an exotic genre to me, because America itself is exotic. German pulp writers have always been fascinated by America as a source of inspiration, even back in the ‘30s – I’m picking up a local tradition, in a way.”
Read MoreThis week: Robert E. Howard, Ronnie James Dio, Clark Ashton Smith, Pellucidar, A Song of Fire and Ice, Gary Gygax, the current state of sword-and-sorcery readership, and more.
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