Sean CW Korsgaard

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.

They're West Virginians, and if memory serves, one of the Grantville residents is big on Confederate stuff, a
which catches on with a few of the other uptimers.

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!

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

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!

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Especially since there were three whole Final Fantasy games that skipped US release. That would have changed my childhood forever!

Those first six Final Fantasies are so confusing on numbering.

FFII here being FF6?

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!

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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!

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

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...

two men are standing next to each other in a room . ALT: two men are standing next to each other in a room .

Together, brother?

How much for yours?

1k and we lock in issue 2 - lets conquer the stretches together!

Between them, Battleborn, and best of sword-and-sorcery monthly, this is a big week for crowdfunding in the scene isn't it?

One of the many reasons for my crusade to bring Vettius and Dama back to print!

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?

It's a streaming service whose very existence is kept afloat solely by having the streaming rights to Bluey, a show Disney didn't even make.

It was a joy to speak, however briefly.

The NPR List of the Top 100 from 2011 I think is actually damned solid.

I would ditch MZB for obvious reasons, but otherwise? I've used it as a checklist to work down for years and haven't had a bad read yet.

We both have 9 days left, eh?

Ready for a charge to the front together?

They certainly sold me on the book the first time I saw it!

And it's excellent! I'd love more like it!

There's just something so evocative about underwater scifi.

Plus, we don't get nearly enough scifi with sharks on the cover.

You could make it Aquapunk/Underwater scifi themed!

That subgenre had not received the love it should since the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

I don't suppose the warm glow of helping an author you like/admire, and occasionally seeing your name/outlet on cover copy counts as pay?

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.

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?

Today at the blog, @princejvstin.com interviews @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social

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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.

Does that mean you won't be at CapClave this weekend?

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!