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Sean CW Korsgaard

@scwkorsgaard.bsky.social

Award-winning freelance reporter, author, US Army veteran and constant adventurer, seeking great stories and an audience to hear them. Editor, Battleborn Magazine. Reviewer, Analog SF&F.

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My favorite part is he was the ONLY one of the Weird Tales circle that didn't know she was a woman.

Which means everyone else thought it was funnier not to correct him.

26.02.2026 01:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm intrigued

26.02.2026 01:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

22.02.2026 21:23 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Not my place to share publicly.

There will be a Hanuvar short story in the first issue of Battleborn. All I can say for now.

22.01.2026 02:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Year Without HAJ Howard Andrew Jones (1968-2025)

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

16.01.2026 18:45 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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I can't believe Howard Andrew Jones has been gone a year now.

I still weep for the loss.

16.01.2026 14:20 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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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!

14.01.2026 00:59 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

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

13.01.2026 02:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Honestly? There is so much baffling behind the scenes stuff with reprints and subrights that makes the head spin.

28.12.2025 03:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I did my part when working there - I could (and hope to!) work in SFF publishing another 50 years - to bring in Howard Andrew Jones and his Hanuvar series. Had he not died of cancer...

27.12.2025 18:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The sad thing is, what's keeping reprints from happening is a moviedeal.

Apparently so long as they renew the movie rights, no reprints.

Good for his estate, but man I'd love to replace those aging Bolo paperbacks.

27.12.2025 18:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If we are being honest, its a world building issue... the franchise itself waffled heavily on just what the Immortals are, their powers, origins, all that stuff.

Its one reason I'm hoping the reboot is great - a clean slate here is overdue.

10.12.2025 03:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Technically we'd be calling them Egyptians.

10.12.2025 03:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I lament I can't call him now to talk with him about them.

08.12.2025 16:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

08.12.2025 01:46 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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."

08.12.2025 01:43 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy Birthday to the great one, @michaelastackpole.bsky.social.

Also, Happy Thanksgiving one and all.

27.11.2025 20:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Former Baen employee, here.

There are good people and bad people working there and writing at Baen.

I reckon that's true of most publishers.

19.11.2025 21:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ouch.

19.11.2025 21:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

08.11.2025 21:26 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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.

13.10.2025 19:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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!

01.10.2025 00:43 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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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!

www.indiegogo.com/projects/bat...

30.09.2025 19:35 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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

30.09.2025 15:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Those first six Final Fantasies are so confusing on numbering.

30.09.2025 13:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

FFII here being FF6?

30.09.2025 05:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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...

29.09.2025 15:53 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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!

28.09.2025 20:26 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

28.09.2025 17:12 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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?

28.09.2025 02:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0