Category: Pulp Fiction

  • Cover Art: Kane

    Cover Art: Kane

    This week’s look at fantasy book cover art drills down on Karl Edgar Wagner’s Kane. Which one do you like best?

  • Run, stupid, run

    Run, stupid, run

    The other night, as we were watching the latest incarnation of The Incredible Hulk, my daughter turned to me to during two major fight scenes and said, “Why don’t they just step out of the way?”

  • Slaying the Gatekeepers

    Slaying the Gatekeepers

    Nine months is reasonable to wait for a baby. Nine months is reasonable to write a novel. However, nine months is not so reasonable to hear absolutely no response from a traditional publisher or agent on a work submitted for consideration.

  • Black River – Prologue

    Black River – Prologue

    Craxius heard words in the river. At first, he thought it was the other soldiers from the fortress laughing about the ambush. Then he was sure that it was the whispers of a band of Northerners sneaking up on the encampment of soldiers. Finally, he heard children singing. But it was only the water rushing…

  • Black River – Work in Progress

    Sand lifted in a great gust forcing Shield Scyldmund to close his eyes. The fine particles blasted against his skin, sharp, at the edge of pain. It hissed as it slithered beneath the rings of his dented armor, twisted into his beard, and lodged itself into the wrinkles that masked his eyes. These fierce sands…

  • Jiro

    Jiro

    Read the fast-paced, sword and sorcery story published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly.