Rusty Burke: Back at Home and Back on the Phone
Acclaimed Robert E. Howard scholar, Rusty Burke, suffered a near-fatal injury in December. The latest news is that he’s back home and doing better! Read on for more details.
Read MoreLinks of Steel, 3/24/2024
This week: Conan, James M. Ward, Dune, C.L. Moore, Poul Anderson, Men’s Adventure Quarterly, Weird Tales, and more.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: K.T. Elfering
“My characters tend to want things that are bad for themselves or others, and I like to write endings for them that are both tragic and ecstatic. I think the way I write characters is influenced by my theater background—I try to picture them "onstage" in a sense—and I also enjoy observing real people and their bizarre tendencies, something that influences both my writing and my acting.”
Read MoreLinks of Steel, 3/17/2024
This week: Red Sonja, Dune, Cú Chulainn, Leigh Brackett, William Hope Hodgson, Conan, August Derleth, H.P. Lovecraft, and more.
Read MoreBarbarian Comics
Jim Zub’s Conan comics mostly capture the flavor of Howard’s stories. Not perfectly since Howard was such a unique writer. The art is reminiscent of the original Marvel Conan run which has delighted fans of the original comics.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: Wade German
“Some of my readers and reviewers have said my work conjures an atmosphere that is a little more alien and peculiar than others. I’ve been happy to hear that, since I observe what Lovecraft said about the aesthetics of weird literature, viz., “atmosphere is all-important.”
Read MoreDark Dreams of Nilztiria by D.M. Ritzlin Coming in April
In 2020, I published Necromancy in Nilztiria, my first collection of sword-and-sorcery and dark fantasy stories set in a world of my own creation. This April nine new tales of this fabled land will appear in Dark Dreams of Nilztiria, detailing the exploits of infamous heroes such as the cursed warrior Vran the Chaos-Warped, the freewheeling barbarian Avok Kur Storn, and the enigmatic wizard Xaarxool the Necromancer.
Read MoreLinks of Steel, 3/10/2024
This week: Conan, Brian Stableford, Dune, Poul Anderson, Harold Lamb, Leigh Brackett, and more.
Read MoreNorman Saunders: One of the Pulp Art Greats
On top of being just a great all-around American, Norman Saunders’ work for the pulps, Men’s Adventure mags and various trading cards from Topps made him a pop art legend. If nothing else, Saunders painted the very first rendition of Conan the Cimmerian for a paperback cover, beating Frazetta by fourteen years.
Read MoreIndependent Author Spotlight: David Carter
“I write what I want to write, but that does not mean I write only for myself. I write also to entertain, to provide diversion, hopefully. If a story is not fun or interesting when it comes to fiction, is there any point to it?”
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