by Bill Ward on November 25, 2008
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Jason Waltz has just announced the release of the second edition of Return of the Sword over on his blog, and at the Rogue Blades Entertainment site. As most of you know, Return of the Sword, an anthology of heroic and edgy fantasy adventure fiction featuring the likes of James Enge, E.E. Knight, Michael Ehart, [...]
by Bill Ward on November 11, 2008
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Jason Waltz of Rogue Blades Entertainment is posting an interview series of all the authors of Return of the Sword — one author per week — up at the RBE Facebook page.
My own interview is up right now, and here it is.
In it I talk a bit about what motivates me as a writer, touch [...]
Just back from Dragoncon and “Holy Crap!” doesn’t even begin to cover it. I’m still a bit footsore, a bit sleep-deprived, and a bit overwhelmed by it all — but what a fantastic experience. The Con was a massive convergence of all things sci-fi, fantastical, horrific, and just plain . . . other. Massive throngs [...]
Return of the Sword just got a great review over at BlackGate.com. Black Gate reviewer Ryan Harvey goes beyond simple summarization to get at the heart of the themes and story elements of the anthology’s nineteen tales, and he does a superb job of explaining to a genre-savvy reader just why he or she might [...]
by Bill Ward on May 2, 2008
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Return of the Sword just received a good review over at The Fix, a review site dedicated to genre fiction that looks at a lot of small press work. Reviewer Janice Clark, who acknowledges that sweaty heroics and clanging battles aren’t normally her preferred reading fare, seems genuinely impressed with the quality of the [...]
The Return of the Sword anthology is a rare thing in this day and age. I’m not talking about the passion that went into it, it being the work of a handful of dedicated people, Jason M. Waltz chief among them, who have labored without the resources of a big publisher on the [...]
by Bill Ward on February 18, 2008
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March 15th might be bad news for Caesar, but for lovers of Sword and Sorcery and Heroic Fantasy it’s a big, fat smiley face on the wall calender. Why, you ask? Because Jason Waltz and Flashing Swords Press is releasing its first big anthology, Return of the Sword.
Click here to go to The Return [...]