The Earth is Flat: Tales from the Flat Earth and Elsewhere will contain all five uncollected Flat Earth stories in one volume for the first time. Additionally, nine more stories that showcase Lee’s talent for crafting spellbinding tales of heroic warriors, enigmatic magicians, and strange deities will be included.
Read MoreGlenn Rahman’s collection A Feast of Ambrosia was scheduled to be released next month, but unfortunately it must be postponed. To fill the gap in the schedule for January, we’ll release Swain’s Chase, the second volume in The Saga of Swain the Viking by Arthur D. Howden Smith.
Read MoreOut of Tanith Lee’s many fantasy series, her “Tales from the Flat Earth” is arguably her most highly regarded. All five uncollected Flat Earth stories will appear in the upcoming DMR Books release, The Earth is Flat: Tales from the Flat Earth and Elsewhere.
Read MoreLegendary fantasy artist Ken Kelly reportedly died today at the age of 76. As Kelly has always been one of my favorite artists, I felt that he deserved some sort of tribute on the DMR Blog.
Read MoreYou’ve seen Lauren Gornik’s art on the covers of quite a few releases from DMR Books, the most recent being the anthology Terra Incognita. With Terra Incognita out now, I thought it would be a good time to talk to Lauren about her artistic processes and influences.
Read MoreDonald A. Wollheim debuted—or ‘broke out’—Tanith Lee’s various S&S/heroic fantasy works, Moorcock’s Elric and Dorian Hawkmoon, Saunders’ Imaro and Dossouye and Shea’s Nifft the Lean. In other words, most of the major sword-and-sorcery protagonists of the ‘70s and ‘80s.
Read MoreCyber Monday is winding down. It got me to thinking about what DMR Books—and Friends of the DMR Blog—have to offer this Yuletide season. Plenty, as it turns out.
Read MoreToday marked the anniversary of the passing of Donald A. Wollheim. Today also marks—perhaps exactly, perhaps within a few weeks at most—the founding of DAW Books by Wollheim in 1971. Throughout the 1970s and well into the 1980s, DAW Books kept the pulp aesthetic alive, publishing far more sword-and-sorcery and sword-and-planet than its competitors.
Read MoreDungeons and Dragons has become a household name. It is firmly embedded in our pop culture. Whether you have played the game or not, you are aware of it. Within its pages, co-creator Gary Gygax shared a list of stories that inspired him. This list is known as Appendix N.
Read MoreIn February DMR Books will publish The Empress of Dreams, a collection of sixteen of Tanith Lee’s tales of swords and sorcery.
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