Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 11 is now available as a trade paperback and kindle eBook.
I have chosen all the stories to be included in Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volumes 11 and 12, the latter to be published in May next year. Full details soon.
Some great submissions so far for Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 11. In fact, it already looks like I'll be able to fill volume 12 as well, just as I was last year when I picked tales for volumes 9 and 10 at the same time. The hardest part is likely to be deciding which tales should go in either volume.
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Please send only one submission at a time - the one you consider the best fit for us.
Although we like original stories we are always more than happy to consider reprints. Just let us know where and when it was previously published.
You can send in simultaneous submissions, but let us know if your story is accepted elsewhere as soon as possible. Bear in mind you will receive either an acception or rejection by the end of the first week in November.
There is no limit on the size of submissions.
There is absolutely no need to tell us anything about yourself as the only thing that matters is the story. Everything else is irrelevant. We will ask for details about yourself if your story is accepted.
All rejections and acceptances will be sent by email by the end of the first week in November. Please don't enquire about your submission before then.
And good luck!
In the past we have received a number of stories that may be fantasy but are not swords and sorcery. If you are unsure what swords and sorcery is, you could get a better idea by checking out volumes 1 - 10. Saying that, swords and sorcery is a broad genre and we are more than willing to consider stories that stretch its limits, as we have in the past.
Three weeks from now the submissions period will open for Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 11, which will run for one calendar month until midnight the 31st of October. The book, both as a paperback and kindle eBook will be published in November.
For full details of how to submit follow this link: Submissions
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 is a fitting sequel to the first volume, published in hardcover and packed with black and white and full-colour illustrations.
These are just a few of the pages from this book:
There's an excellent review of Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 10 in the current issue of Phantasmagoria magazine, issue 27, by ex-editor of Fear magazine, John Gilbert.
Not only have I now got the cover sorted for Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 11 but those for volumes 12 and 13 too. All are the work of Jim Pitts.
These collections will include all of David A. Riley's horror and occasional science fiction stories. They do not include any of his fantasy or swords and sorcery stories, most of which were written over the last five years and number thirty-five at the moment.
For those of you who love the art of Jim Pitts in the Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy volumes as well as the Elak of Atlantis Trilogy by Adrian Cole, we have books dedicated to Jim's artwork: The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts and The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts, available as paperbacks and in hardcover.
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We have now set up an Amazon Page for all our short story collections, which will give easy access for anyone wanting to see what we have available.
short story collections for those available in the UK
short story collections for those available in the US
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