Just over a month to go before Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 4 is published

There is just over a month to go before Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 4 is published in mid-June.

In the meantime all three previous volumes are available to order either as paperbacks or kindle e-books.

Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 3 is available as a paperback and ebook (kindle).

Copies can be ordered from:

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Contents are:

 

Sorcerous Vengeance by Lorenzo D. Lopez 

 

Seal Snatchers of Jorsaleem by Tais Teng

 

When the Gods Send You Rats by Chadwick Ginther 

 

Mother's Bones by Carson Ray

 

In the Lair of the Snake-Witch by Darin Hlavaz

 

The Rains of Barofonn by Mike Chinn

 

Wardark by Craig Herbertson

 

The Foliage by Rab Foster 

 

In the Lair of the Moonmen by Jon Hansen 

 

Sailing on the Thieves' Tide by Adrian Cole

 

The covers and interior artwork are again by Jim Pitts.

The book is 270 pages and will cost £11.99 (£2.99 kindle).

With covers and illustrations by award-winning fantasy artist Jim Pitts, and edited by David A. Riley, the volumes so far include stories by Steve Lines, Steve Dilks, Susan Murrie Macdonald, Geoff Hart, Gerri Leen, Eric Ian Steele, Chadwick Ginther, Adrian Cole, Mike Chinn, Tais Teng, Martin Owton, Andrew Darlington, Pedro Iniguez, Dev Agarwal, and Phil Emery.

All are available from Parallel Universe Publications direct or from Amazon and other online retailers. 

For a glimpse into some of the interior pages of Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 2 click on this link. 

The contents of Volume 2 are:

The Essence of Dust by Mike Chinn

Highjacking the Lord of Light by Tais Teng

Out in the Wildlands by Martin Owton

Zale and Zedril by Susan Murrie Macdonald

The Amulet and the Shadow by Steve Dilks

Antediluvia: Seasons of the World by Andrew Darlington

A Thousand Words for Death by Pedro Iniguez

Stone Snake by Dev Agarwal

Seven Thrones by Phil Emery

The Eater of Gods by Adrian Cole 

Illustrations by Jim Pitts.

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The contents of Volume One are:

The Mirror of Torjan Sul by Steve Lines

The Horror from the Stars by Steve Dilks

Trolls are Different by Susan Murrie Macdonald

Chain of Command by Geoff Hart

Disruption of Destiny by Gerri Leen

The City of Silence by Eric Ian Steele

Red by Chadwick Ginther

The Reconstructed God by Adrian Cole

Illustrations by Jim Pitts. 

 

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Chillercon

I am taking a short break from reading submissions for Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 4 to attend Chillercon in Scarborough on Friday the 27th May, mainly to attend the launch and signing for the Brian Lumley Phantasmagoria Special which will be held at 4.00 p.m. 

 

Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy - reciprocal advertising

As we approach the fourth volume of our ongoing Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy series, we would like to offer reciprocal advertising in the back of our books.

So far the final pages have only advertised other volumes in our own series, but we would like to offer other publishers the opportunity to advertise their publications there in exchange for similar advertising either on their sites or, ideally, in some of their publications.

Adverts should be no more than 3.75 inches by 7 inches, excluding margins. 

Although any adverts in our paperbacks will be in black and white, they can be in full-colour in the kindle ebooks.

Please contact us at paralleluniversepublications@gmx.co.uk

Leafing through The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts

Here is a short video leafing through the latest proof copy of The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts which will be published later this month in hardcover. 

Pre-order copies are available for £25 plus postage and packing. After publication the price will rise to £30.00 plus p&p. 

Since we brought out The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts in 2017 Jim has been constantly busy, including interior artwork for Elak: King of Atlantis and After Nightfall & Other Weird Tales, covers for Phantasmagoria magazine, and a host of other projects, with new techniques and fresh designs. 

The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts will be a fitting sequel to the first volume, published in hardcover and packed with black and white and full-colour illustrations.

The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts should be published by the end of April

While we are waiting for what should be the final proof copy of The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts we can announce with some certainty that this should be available to order by the end of this month. It will be available either from PUP direct or through such online stores as amazon.

Since we brought out The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts in 2017 Jim has been constantly busy, including interior artwork for Elak: King of Atlantis, The Fantastic Fiction of Hannes Bok, The A'rak by Michael Shea, and After Nightfall & Other Weird Tales, covers for Phantasmagoria magazine, The Annotated Guide to Robert E. Howard's Weird Fantasy and a host of other projects, with new techniques and fresh designs. 

The book includes articles by Trevor Kennedy and Steve Dilks.

The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts will be a fitting sequel to the first volume, published in hardcover and packed with black and white and full-colour illustrations.

 

Cover reveal for Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 5

While still reading through submissions for Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 4, Jim Pitts and I have already decided on the cover for volume 5, which will be published in November. 

Below is a glimpse of what it will look like.