Here are some brief details of the authors whose stories will appear in Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 2, to be published in June.
Opening
the collection is The Essence of Dust by veteran horror, fantasy, SF
writer Mike Chinn. Mike lives in Birmingham, UK, with his wife Caroline and
their tribe of guinea pigs. In 2012 he took early retirement so he could spend
more time writing (and not housework). Over the years he has published over
sixty short stories, as well as editing three volumes of The Alchemy Press
Book of Pulp Heroes, and Swords Against The Millennium, also for The
Alchemy Press. His own contribution to the Pulp
Adventure genre, The Paladin Mandates, garnered two nominations for
the British Fantasy Award in 1999, and Pro Se Productions have recently
published a revised and extended edition. Pro Se also published the second
Damian Paladin collection, Walkers in Shadow, along with his first
Western, Revenge is a Cold Pistol. In 2015, his Sherlock Holmes steampunk mash-up, Vallis Timoris (Fringe-works), sent the
famous detective to the Moon. Parallel Universe Publications has also published
a collection of his stories, Radix Omnium Malum.
Tais
Teng (Highjacking the Lord of Light) is a Dutch SF writer and
illustrator with, in his own words, the
quite unpronounceable name of Thijs van Ebbenhorst Tengbergen, which he
shortened to Tais Teng ’to leave room for a picture of an exploding starship or
a clever steam-punk lady on the covers of my novels.’
In his own language
he has written everything from radio-plays to hefty fantasy trilogies.
To date he has sold
sixty-eight stories in the English language and two children's books: When
the Nightgaunt Knows Your Name and The Emerald Boy. His YA novel Phaedra:
Alastor 824, set in the universe of Jack Vance, has been published by
Spatterlight Press.
His most recent
sales have been to Daily Science Fiction, Unreal, Lowlife
and Cirsova.
English website: http://taisteng.atspace.com/
Art: https://taisteng.deviantart.com/
Martin
Owton (Out in the Wildlands) lives in the south
of England. In addition to some 30 published short stories, he has
written 3 published novels: 2 non-epic
adventure fantasies, Exile and Nandor – ‘which could certainly be
called sword and sorcery’ – and a con-temporary fantasy Shadows of Faerie
set in Southampton and the New Forest. A former member of the defunct T-Party
Writers Group, he is represented by Shiel Land Associates. In real life he is a
drug designer for big pharma.
Susan lives in a small town in
Tennessee about twenty kilometres from
Memphis. She is married to a travel agent and has a son and daughter of university
age. She has had stories in Tales
from OmniPark, Under Western Stars, Space Force: Building a Legacy, Cat
Tails: War Zone, Wee Tales, The Caterpillar, Sirius Science Fiction, Itty Bitty
Writing Space, Bumples, Alternative Truths, More Alternative Truths, Paper
Butterfly, Sword and Sorceress, Knee-High Drummond and the Durango Kid,
Barbarian Crowns, and Supernatural Colorado.
Andrew’s website is http://andrewdarlington.blogspot.co.uk/
Pedro Iniguez (A Thousand Words for Death)
is a speculative fiction writer who also enjoys reading and painting. His work
can be found in magazines and anthologies such as Space and Time Magazine,
Crossed Genres, Dig Two Graves, Tiny Nightmares, Deserts
of Fire, and Altered
States II. His cyberpunk novel
Control Theory (Indie Authors Press, 2016) and his 10-year
collection, Synthetic Dawns & Crimson Dusks, (Indie Authors
Press, 2020) are available on Amazon.
Originally
from Los Angeles, he now resides in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he is
currently working on his second novel.
Dev Agarwal is a science fiction and fantasy
writer. His fiction has been published online and in magazines including Albedo
One, Aoife’s Kiss, Aeon and, forthcoming, in Mithila
Review. His non-fiction has been published online and in a variety of
magazines.
Dev has
been editing non-fiction for a number of years and is non-fiction editor for
the magazine Khoreo. He is also the editor of Focus, the magazine
for genre writers produced by the British Science Fiction Association.
His
fantasy often draws on historical events. His story Stone Snake is the
start of a series of adventures of the principal character travelling home.
Author of Seven Thrones, Phil
Emery’s work has been published in the UK, USA, Europe, and Canada since the
seventies. His particular claims to sword-&-sorcery infamy include appearances
in the Rogue Blades’ anthologies Return of the Sword and Demons,
and the experimental fantasy The Shadow Cycles, together with a doctoral
thesis on the subject. The sworder Zain
first appeared in print in a 1972 story entitled Swords at Night. Both he and his creator are a little longer-in-the-scabbard these days . . .
The contents of Volume 2 are:
Introduction by David A. Riley
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.
Volume 1 is still available:
amazon.co.uk
amazon.com
Parallel Universe Publications
