Jack of Harts

Sword versus Sorcery is what we have here.
Defiance versus Demand. Challenge versus Command.

Though there are lots of evil foes in the stories ahead, S&S is not so much about good versus evil, or good saving the day, or even evil getting its just rewards. It is far more about an individual (though occasionally a team) spitting in the eye of impossible odds simply because he or she can, or wants to, or wants something on the other side of said odds. S&S protagonists may not actually be heroes despite their doing heroic things. And that’s part of the fun of it all.
Heroic storytelling can teach some amazing truths about being human. About what courage is, what growth and maturity are, how society and even the world works, what it means to be loyal, trustworthy, brave, compassionate. At its least, it entertains. At its best, it entertains and shares a value system for heroics; a passion for heroic stories and a belief in the possibility of heroes.

Check out Daggers & Dark Powers by Raconteur Press, if you dare…

The Stone and Sky anthology by Opal Kingdom Press is available right now. They wanted us to write stories about gargoyles, so I had fun with them. I researched the earliest Gothic structures in America, found the Gothic Church on the New Haven Green, found the stories about a good guy Indian spirit putting a bad guy Indian spirit to sleep under the Sleeping Giant just north of New Haven, and I had a story.

And that is how Captain William Carter returned home to see gargoyles sitting atop the Gothic Church on the New Haven Green. Everything else is just what happens when an old school hunter of otherworldly creatures and threats to mankind sees something wrong and decides he needs to do something about it.

And that’s just my story. A full mix of fantasy, urban fantasy, and science fiction tales await you if you inside the pages of Stone and Sky.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.

For me, I’m thankful for family and friends. I’ve seen some this week and I eat with some of you today. Many I will see over the next week or two, and others throughout the Christmas Season to come. Others are too far away for me to see at all, and so I tell you now that I’m thankful for you as well.

Those still alive and those who have died. I am the man I am today because of the influence of family and friends. All of you get a bit of credit or blame, depending on what you wish, for all of that.

I thank God that you are in my life.

Seyla.