Last year Gollancz announced it was going to be making all of Michael Moorcock's genre work available both in print and in ebook form. It was exciting news for me. Moorcock was my gateway drug to genre fantasy more than 40 years ago. I own most of his stuff in paperback but the books are scattered hither and yon about the world and quite frankly you can't beat ebooks for convenience, particularly when you're a long term expat like me. Recently the first books in the new Michael Moorcock Library rolled off the digital presses (or whatever) and I was delighted to note a completely new (to me) cycle of Elric tales called the Moonbeam Roads. Turns out they were not quite new-- Daughter of Dreams looks like it's a retitled version of the The … [Read more...]
Author’s Notes: Stealer of Flesh
I know, it's a bit silly to be writing up the Author's Notes five months or so after the book was released but what the hell-- I've been busy and I've been sick and these things get done in their own time. Stealer of Flesh is a book that Amazon made possible. Seriously. All of my life I have wanted to write something like it but I was born at the wrong time. In order to explain that we need to rewind to when I was a very young teenager. I grew up reading, among other things, lots of good, old-fashioned sword and sorcery; Robert E Howard's Conan and Solomon Kane; Michael Moorcock's Elric, Corum and Hawkmoon books; Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique and Hyperborea and Averoigne stories and many more. … [Read more...]
Kormak: Stealer of Flesh Released
Just wanted to announce that Stealer of Flesh, the first Kormak novel-- well, a collection of linked novelettes really, has been released. In a blatant effort to promote sales, the Kormak short story Guardian of the Dawn will be free until midnight Thursday as well. STEALER OF FLESH To the world at large, he is a mercenary and assassin, a brutal killer with a deadly blade. In reality Kormak is a Guardian, one of a near-extinct order sworn to protect humanity from the servants of the gathering darkness. The Ghul are the Stealers of Flesh, an ancient race of demons who possess the bodies of humans to work great evil. Now one of them has been freed from its ancient prison using Kormak’s own Dwarf-forged sword and the Guardian must pursue … [Read more...]
