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Sometime Lofty Towers
Brackenbury Books is in the middle of a crowdfunding campaign to bring David C. Smith’s sword & sorcery novel, Sometime Lofty Towers, to print. David C. Smith is a well known and respected author in the field and Brackenbury Books is a publisher known for their New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine. They also recently released the first Double-Edged Sword & Sorcery book, which is done in the style of the old Ace Doubles. It features two novellas back to back: Bryn Hammond’s Waste Flowers and Dariel R. A. Quiogue’s Walls of Shira Yulun. That book itself is a work of art, and Sometime Lofty Towers should be brilliant as well.
You can back the project by clicking here. (You definitely want to back the project.) And if you would like to read a review of an advanced copy of Sometime Lofty Towers, hit the link here.
That review of Sometime Lofty Towers appeared in Swords & Sorcery Magazine. Month after month, editor Curtis Ellett serves up delightful stories, discovering new tales and new authors all the time. The magazine is one of the web’s finest repository for new sword and sorcery stories—taking the deep dive here is enchanting and fun. Issue 161 is the latest and features four brand new stories by Ali Abbas, William Morris, Chris Bissette and Daniel A. Rabuzzi; all presented free for you to read.
Sword & Sorcery stories appear in a wide variety of new magazines, and the genre, as a whole, has benefited from crowd-source funding. Goblins and Galaxies is one of the newest, having just completed a successful funding campaign. They offer a mix of fantasy and science fiction—clearly implied in the title. They’ve already brought out issue zero, which includes seven brand new stories and, in their Unearthed feature, they reprint The Loot of Bombasharna by Lord Dunsany. As they note, the Unearthed stories are an attempt to look back at the tales that started what continues today.
Another mainstay of the magazines offering brilliant fantasy and sword & sorcery fiction is the brilliantly named Old Moon Quarterly. The issues are consistently packed with great and imaginative stories by some of the best writers plying their trade. Their latest crowd source funding campaign is rapidly coming to a close, but you can still help fund it on Backerkit.
