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Grimdark Magazine Issue #12 Kindle Edition
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FICTION
- Red Glass by Anna Smith-Spark (Empires of Dust short story)
- A Ring to Rule them All by Luke Scull (A Grim Company short story)
- Peddler by William Stiteler
NON-FICTION
- Brainstorming and Plotting by Aliette de Bodard
- An interview with Richard A. Knaak
- An interview with Michael J. Sullivan
- An interview with Richard Lee Byers
- Review of Swarm and Steel by Michael R. Fletcher
- Review of Faithless by Graham Austin-King
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date14 April 2018
- File size368 KB
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Product details
- ASIN : B07CG3PFMP
- Publisher : Grimdark Magazine (14 April 2018)
- Language : English
- File size : 368 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 112 pages
- Customer Reviews:
About the authors
Michael J. Sullivan is a New York Times, USA Today, and Washington Post bestselling author, and no one is more surprised by those facts than he. When just a boy, Michael found a typewriter in the basement of a friend's house, inserted a blank piece of paper, and typed, "It was a dark and stormy night." He was just ten years old and mimicking the only writer he knew at the time: Snoopy. That spark ignited a flame, and Michael's desire to fill blank pages became a life-long obsession. As an adult, Michael spent more than ten years developing his craft by studying authors such as Stephen King, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck. During that time, he wrote thirteen novels but found no interest from the publishing industry. Since insanity is repeating the same action while expecting a different result, he made the rational choice and quit, vowing never to write creatively again.
Never turned out to be too long for Michael, and after a decade, he returned to the keyboard in his forties, but with one condition: He wouldn't seek publication. Instead, he wrote a series of books that had been building in his head during his hiatus. His first reading love was fantasy, and he hoped to foster a similar reaction in his then thirteen-year-old daughter who struggled due to dyslexia. After reading the third book of this series, his wife insisted that the novels had to "get out there." When Michael refused to jump back onto the query-go-round, Robin took over the publication tasks, and she has run the business side of his writing ever since.
Currently, Michael has released eighteen novels (and written twenty): The Riyria Revelations (6 books in 3 two-book omnibus editions from Orbit), The Riyria Chronicles (2 books from Orbit and 2 indie-published), Legends of the First Empire (3 books from Del Rey and 3 indie-published), Rise and Fall (Nolyn (2021, Farilane (coming 2022), Esrhadon (coming 2023) and a standalone science fiction thriller called Hollow World (from Tachyon Publications).
The next Riyria novel, Drumindor, has been green-lighted, but no publication date has been released.
Michael is one of the few authors who has successfully published through all three routes: small press, self, and big five. Some key accomplishments of his career include:
* New York Times, USA Today, and Washington Post bestselling author
* 9 Goodreads Choice Award Nominations
* Named to io9's Most Successful Self-Published Sci-Fi and Fantasy authors
* Sold more than 2 Million English copies
* Been translated into 15 foreign language
* Spent more than 6 years on Amazon's Bestselling Fantasy Author's list
* His books have been named to more than 250 best-of or most-anticipated lists including those compiled by Library Journal, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Goodreads.com, and Audible.com
Contact Info:
* email: michael@michaelsullivan-author.com
* Twitter: @author_sullivan
* Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2063919.Michael_J_Sullivan
* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.james.sullivan
Sign up for Michael's Newsletter at: http://bit.ly/36P5GUs
Richard Lee Byers is the author of forty fantasy and horror novels including Called to Darkness, his first Pathfinder novel, Blind God’s Bluff, the start of a new urban fantasy series, and Prophet of the Dead, the latest in a series of books set in the Forgotten Realms universe. His novel The Spectral Blaze won Diehard GameFAN’s award for the Best Game-Based Novel of 2011.
Richard is also the creator of The Impostor, a post-apocalyptic superhero series. He has published dozens of short stories and writes a monthly feature for the SF news site Airlock Alpha.
Richard lives in the Tampa Bay area, where he spends much of his free time fencing and playing poker. He is a frequent guest at Gen Con and Florida SF conventions.
He invites everyone to Follow him on Twitter (@rleebyers), Friend him on Facebook, and add him to your Circles on Google+.
Anna Smith Spark lives in London, UK. She loves grimdark and epic fantasy and historical military fiction. Anna has a BA in Classics, an MA in history and a PhD in English Literature. She has previously been published in the Fortean Times and the poetry website www.greatworks.org.uk. Previous jobs include petty bureaucrat, English teacher and fetish model.
Anna's favourite authors and key influences are R. Scott Bakker, Steve Erikson, M. John Harrison, Ursula Le Guin, Mary Stewart and Mary Renault. She spent several years as an obsessive D&D player. She can often be spotted at sff conventions wearing very unusual shoes.
www.courtofbrokenknives.org
Customer reviews
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The book reviews are excellent and I’m keen to get hold of the latest release from Michael R. Fletcher. There is a terrific interview with fantasy author Michael J. Sullivan, one that I found to be really insightful, particularly as Sullivan straddles the line between being traditionally published and self-publishing. He comes across as passionate about the genre, knowledgable about the business and his writing insights provide great reading. Similarly with the piece by Aliette De Bodard which has some interesting and useful writing tips and there is another good interview with Richard A. Knaak. The questions are clearly well thought out and are not generic, so great work.
All said, this is a great magazine for fans of the genre and if you fancy unsheathing your sword and getting knee deep in grit then Grimdark Magazine isn’t a bad place to start finding out what the genre has to offer.
4/5 bloodied knives from the Grim(dark) Reader.


The highlights of the issue would be "Red Glass" by Anna Smith Spark, which is a story set in her newly released and highly regarded COURT OF BROKEN KNIVES. There is also "A Ring to Rule them all" by Luke Skull that carries his usual level of skill as one of the best grimdark authors currently out there.
Article-wise, "Brainstorming and Plotting" by Aliette de Bodard is a nice little bit of advice for writers and has a lot of tricks to help those who want to make their own dark fantast storyline. For me, though, the best part of the magazine is actually the interviews with Richard K. Knaak and Michael J. Sullivan.
Neither author of who I normally associate with grimdark but who have an infectious enthusiasm about their fantasy work which is hard to ignore. Both talk about projects I am anxious to buy copies of and also their experiences in the fantasy publishing market. Michael J. Sullivan, in particular, is the self-published fantasy author's measuring stick and one we all could do well to immitate. I will say I found it disappointing he's never read the Lankhmar series, though.
There's also a review of both SWARM AND STEEL by Michael R. Fletcher and FAITHLESS by Graham Austin-King. Both of which I've read and agree with the excellent reviews thereof.
Buy this.