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Bryan Young @swankmotron.com · 13/05/2026

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My guide to cool stuff this summer (in the available space) featuring things you want from @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social, @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social, and @clpolk.com, among others. www.cityweekly.net/ae/big-shiny...

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Big Shiny Robot: Summer 2026 Geek Guide

Comic-book movies, books, TV shows and more for entertaining seasonal distraction.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Did the Oscars finally apologize for snubbing Sylvester Stallone for CREED? If not, I'm still not watching. Not gonna complain if a bunch of the rest of the guys who made CREED come away with some new hardware though.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

It's been one year since the funeral for Howard Andrew Jones. What a grievous loss it still is... you will never be forgotten my friend.

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Fantasy Book Critic @fantasybookcritic.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

A year without Howard Andrew Jones by Scott Oden. A somber remembrance about one of the best sword & sorcery authors who gave us many tales and one whose generosity was felt by many writers & the book community

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A Year Without HAJ

Howard Andrew Jones (1968-2025)

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I can't believe Howard Andrew Jones has been gone a year now. I still weep for the loss.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Clark Ashton Smith was born on this day 133 years ago. Beloved for his Zothique stories and Hyperborean cycle, Smith wedded the styles of fellow WEIRD TALES alumni Howard and Lovecraft into something completely his own. This #Thewsday, lets share our favorite story by Clarke Ashton Smith!

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It's always nice to see the sword-and-sorcery community come together and enjoy the new season of Primal.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Reading the Amber books by Roger Zelazny for the first time in at least a decade. Gods these are good. As in most things, Howard Andrew Jones was right.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

When I got hired at Baen, they shared the horror story of everything that went wrong with 1945. Saw a picture of Jim Baen testifying before Congress because it got wrapped in Gingrich's scandals. "If nothing you do here ends with us on CSPAN, I promise you've done better than some editors here."

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Happy Birthday to the great one, @michaelastackpole.bsky.social. Also, Happy Thanksgiving one and all.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Getting over a nasty case of something miserable and painful. Good time to remind people @BattlebornMag is open to submissions until Midnight on Veterans Day, November 11. Some good heroic fantasy to boost my spirits would be appreciated.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Ladies, gentlemen, lovers of sword-and-sorcery one and all: Uncork the mead - we cracked 10k, and with that, BATTLEBORN #2 will drop in June 2026! We cannot wait to bring blood-and-thunder back to the Frontlines of Fantasy with each and every one of you!

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

12 Hours left in the Battleborn crowdfunder. We are $300 shy of locking in the summer release of Issue 2, complete with @michaelastackpole.bsky.social cover story. Plus, ALL backers get over $200 of free fiction on top of the magazine. To glory! www.indiegogo.com/projects/bat...

From the Frontlines of Fantasy | Check out 'Battleborn Magazine' on Indiegogo.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

BATTLEBORN just broke 9k - and with our next stretch goal firmly in sight, what say we sweeten the pot? ALL backers of BATTLEBORN will get digital copies of the first 4 issues of ANVIL - and a few other goodies, too - to help you get a taste for our team's work! www.indiegogo.com/projects/bat...

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Battleborn, Swords & Sorcery Magazine and New Edge S&S each have less than 3 days left in thier crowdfunders. Battleborn and Swords and Sorcery Magazine are also just over 1k each away from the next stretch goals. Do your part to spice up next year's fantasy scene! Swords Together!

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Swords & Sorcery Magazine @curtissandsm.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Join me in backing Battleborn. Help them reach their next goal to lock in the date for their second issue. Swords together! www.indiegogo.com/projects/bat...

From the Frontlines of Fantasy | Check out 'Battleborn Magazine' on Indiegogo.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Raise your glasses and your blades to David Drake, born this day 80 years ago. Vietnam veteran, military scifi pioneer, and among the finest authors and champions of sword-and-sorcery that the genre has ever known. Does anybody here have a favorite David Drake story?

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Joe Haldeman said he had written the rough draft of a Conan novel while deployed to Vietnam, whose manuscript ended as "casualties of a fire fight." If you excuse me, I must know lament that we could have had sword-and-sorcery from Joe Haldeman, joining David Drake as a MilSF titan that did both.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Lets take a moment to remember Tanith Lee today, on what would have been her 78th birthday. Lee straddled horror, fantasy, romance and science fiction in her sword-and-sorcery in a way few authors did. Do any of you have a favorite story by Tanith Lee?

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Robert Rhodes ⚔️ @rrhodeswriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

2 weeks left to lock down your subscription to year 1 of Battleborn! I have a story, the first in a series in issue #1.

From the Frontlines of Fantasy | Check out 'Battleborn Magazine' on Indiegogo.

Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Two weeks left in our crowdfunder for Battlenborn Magazine, many goals lie ahead! Good odds for any warrior! Remember, all of our backers get a vote on which cover graces the cover of Battleborn #1 - but ONLY our backers! We're mercenaries, not a democracy!

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

For the edification of the Early Shift: The Chain Story Project is back with its sixth round of free fiction, this week's story being The Village of Morvoss by Thomas Grayfson. Please download, enjoy, like and share (especially share, that helps so much). www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

We have Jason Ray Carney tapped for a few columns in Battleborn - if you want a great look at his fiction, why not pick up The Best of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, Vol 1?

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Swords & Sorcery Magazine @curtissandsm.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

There are some new goodies available for backers of The Best of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, Vol. 1. We've added interior art postcards and some original art as add-ons. Of course, you do have to pledge to add them on. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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Add Ons | The Best of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, Vol. 1 - BackerKit

Make your pledge your own

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Bryan Young @swankmotron.com · 12/09/2025

I just fired off my story for Battleborn Magazine to the editor, @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social who is a gentleman and a scholar. There's still time to back the magazine, too. So do it. www.indiegogo.com/projects/bat...

From the Frontlines of Fantasy | Check out 'Battleborn Magazine' on Indiegogo.

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Robert Rhodes ⚔️ @rrhodeswriter.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

REMINDER: the crowdfund for BATTLEBORN magazine is live this month! First issue launches in February, and yes, I have a story in it! Help raise and pass on the blazing torch of Sword & Sorcery! #writesky #writing #amwriting #writingcommunity #fantasy #booksky #fantasysky #epicfantasy

From the Frontlines of Fantasy | Check out 'Battleborn Magazine' on Indiegogo.

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Shimmer @leafshimmer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I have the paperback edition from Baen. The memoirs by the late David Drake and Karl Edward Wagner are poignant. Thanks to a friend who shared a digital file of his copy, I was able to see a film interview with Drake done a few months prior to his passing in 2023 where he spoke of MWW.

Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I'm a firm believer in two things: -Rising Tide, All Boats -More sword-and-sorcery is good for everyone! So back S&S Mag and Battleborn today! Double the action, double the blood-and-thunder!

Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 03/09/2025

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Continuing out early career retrospective of C. L. Moore with "The Dark Land" (1936), the 4th published Jirel of Joiry story. Not many swords but a good bit of sorcery. deepcuts.blog/2025/09/03/t...

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“The Dark Land” (1936) by C. L. Moore

Glad you liked “The Dark Land”. I made the drawing a long time ago, and wrote the story so I could bring it in, with the addition of a cadaverous head and a swirl of vagueness.—C. L. Moore to H. P.…

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Andy Fix @ajfixer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Today is also pulp fantasy author Harold Lamb’s birthday!

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Happy 133nd birthday to another of the founding fathers of fantasy, Harold Lamb, whose historical adventure fiction following cossacks and crusaders influenced authors from Robert E. Howard to Howard Andrew Jones! Who among you has ridden the steppe with Lamb?

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Class dismissed. Teaching at Gencon and Dragoncon has been a thrill, and I truly loved it. Plus, my dear grandma and aunties (teachers/professors one and all) are thrilled I'm doing "proper work". There is something magic about teaching. May I get more chances to feel that magic in the future.

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Charles R. Rutledge @crutledge.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

It's the Birthday of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Joe Jusko, so here are some ERB books with awesome Jusko covers, including my favorite Tarzan novel, TARZAN AT THE EARTH'S CORE. Happy Birthday Joe and Ed!

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Looking to bring more sword-and-sorcery into the world? Start here, and if you're willing to double up, back mine, Battleborn! Because two times the sword-and-sorcery? Is a victory we can all celebrate.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I will be reporting live from the Dragon Awards as they happen, once again. For now, enjoying Bill Fawcett recounting the origins of the Dragoncon Carpet cultists to Scott Lynch and Matt Dinniman.

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James Latimer has read Breath and Bone, awaiting Wolf2 @jameslatimer.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

OK, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking The One Ring to Mordor:

Two figures charge through a multicoloured swirling mist (with rats), swords pointed ahead and daggers ready behind; one is a large, thick-thewed man with long blond hair, a beard and fur waistcoat; the other is a small, lithe fellow with a dark hooded cloak. There are rats in the foreground crawling on a root or branch. They are of course Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser from Fritz Leiber, from the Centipede press editions, but I can't find out the artist!

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I'm totally not anxious about The Folded Sky being up for a #DragonAward today! Totally! Slept like a baby! A colicky baby. Anyway, voting is over so it's all in Schrödinger's hands now!

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Teaching my first ever class at Dragoncon.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Watching @jimzub.bsky.social rock the mic talking Conan the Barbarian at #DragonCon! Video to come!

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Born on this day 109 years ago, Jack Vance changed fantasy and sword-and-sorcery forever with the Dying Earth, a place where foul magics and often fouler men fought beneath the final light of the sun. Unforgettable, and Vance changes the way you look at magic forever.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 27/08/2025

Today we are halfway done with the campaign, but only one-quarter of the way to our goal. It’s all or nothing. Please share, and any amount you can help is very appreciated. Horror and weird fiction are good for us. kck.st/4mIkEm1

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026

A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Happy 73rd Birthday to one of the living grandmasters of sword-and-sorcery, Darrell Schweitzer! His Sir Julian stories - all collected in WE ARE ALL LEGENDS - should be on the shelves of any fan of the genre.

Robert Rhodes ⚔️ @rrhodeswriter.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

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August 24th, 3:00 p.m. (eastern): the next person to support BATTLEBORN becomes the 100th. Does this mean anything? Probably not, but you *could* consider yourself a Centurion! ⚔️