@jthomashoward.bsky.social
Indie author of Sword and Sorcery and Sword and Planet.
On today's Sword & Sorcery Renaissance, as it were: We don’t want to be mainstream. F**k the mainstream. We are an alternative movement, and we don’t need bookstores, shitty corporate contracts, or trendy editors. We will not change for the market, we will force the market to change for us.
28.10.2025 23:12 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
My latest novel has arrived! A FEW ODD SOULS is a genre-blending adventure into deep weirdness. Paperback and ebook both available at Amazon: www.amazon.com/Few-Odd-Soul...
14.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
You can read the first two chapters of A FEW ODD SOULS for free on the book's Amazon page: tinyurl.com/svvn9fnc
20.10.2025 23:37 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Sometimes, goblin wizards and martian robots are what get you through the day.
12.09.2025 16:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I took a little break from the stresses of Social Media scrolling but there is a new story on Cliffhanger! today. Its an earnest and humorous homage to the often ludicrous contents of Men's Adventure magazines by author @corabuhlert.bsky.social !
cliffhangermagazine.com/2025/09/12/q...
Hi all. My newest Sword and Planet story appears in the Fall 25 Cirsova. Check it out if swashbuckling pirates on the Martian high seas sounds cool to you. www.amazon.com/Cirsova-Maga...
11.09.2025 12:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#booksky
08.09.2025 00:55 — 👍 447 🔁 39 💬 19 📌 5I finally got into the Murderbot books. My wife really likes them. I’ve been listening to them on my commute. So far Network Effect and Exit Strategy have clicked with me the most. As an extreme extrovert some of this character and humor does not resonate with me. But I get why it does for others.
15.07.2025 16:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Waystation: Amateur Magazine of Space Opera, a zine I put together, just published its second issue. It's a free PDF! Check it out: waystationmag.blogspot.com/2025/05/ways...
18.05.2025 15:53 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Exciting news to share Saturday.
08.05.2025 02:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On Atlas’ Shoulders is a massively under appreciated contemporary Epic Heavy Metal band. The debut was a masterpiece. The 2nd album was a bit more mid but the third album is such a return to form.
05.04.2025 18:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Speaking of heroism…been listening to the audiobook of Redwall. It’s been 30 years since I read it as a kid. It holds up. So wholesome and heroic.
08.03.2025 14:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Target is selling these again in a hardback edition of the first three. I should pick it up.
08.03.2025 14:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That attitude is why HAJ always resonated with me as a writer, but also on a personal level.
07.03.2025 23:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We’ve been conditioned to believe that there aren’t any real heroes and that everyone’s in it for themselves; we’ve been trained to be skeptical and ironic and detached and sarcastic and hip. Yet even as we sneer and laugh with our friends, we know it’s a lie. — HAJ 2008
07.03.2025 23:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Maybe getting into TTRPG tie in novels aimed at 13 year old boys in 1990 is my mid-life crisis? I still want a sports car though…
28.02.2025 03:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was never a DnD fan. I didn’t actively play until some friends got into it in our 30s. I’ve been enjoying RA Salvatore’s books. Just started Legacy of the Drow. I’m 30 years late to the Forgotten Realms party. But I definitely understand the attachment and am starting to develop it.
28.02.2025 03:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hedhara, The Herald
2021
Yesterday was Howard Andrew Jones’s Celebration of Life.
I mostly cried all day & took pictures of pictures of Howard & his memorabilia.
Better, S. E. Lindberg collated the photographs & obituaries here:
www.selindberg.com/2025/02/howa...
I updated his family’s GoFundMe here: gofund.me/71de1c13
Like #swordandsorcery or #swordandplanet ? Check out my stuff and support small press publications. jthowardpulp.wordpress.com
09.02.2025 17:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Color illustrated magazine cover for New Edge Sword & Sorcery #7, showing a wild sword and planet scene with two half-dressed protagonists facing down alien animals while strange airships soar above, the stars hovering over all.
BEHOLD THE COVER OF ISSUE #7 BY LUIS MELO!
@partyinthefront.bsky.social is one of twenty-seven talented artists contributing to our 2025 issues. Sign up to be alerted when the crowdfund launches: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
