Category: Sword and Soul

Sword and Soul Graphic Novels: An Update

Last year (I think) I blogged about Sword and Soul graphic novels. At the time I knew of one that was available and two potential projects. Well, this year I’m happy announce that serious progress has been made! At the writing of this blog there are three Sword and Soul graphic novel projects available to [...]

Sunday April 28th, 2013 in Sword and Soul | No Comments »

Sword and Soul Calibur

Back in the day, I played lots of video games. That was before you had to press all the buttons to play a video game. Of all the games I played the one I enjoyed the most was Soul Calibur. I didn’t discover the game until Soul Calibur 3, but it was such a treat. [...]

Sunday March 31st, 2013 in Sword and Soul | 4 Comments »

Why I’m a Steamfunkateer

I wasn’t always a Steamfunkateer. About a year ago I was just a Sword and Soul brother writing and publishing my stories for the world to read. For years I’d plotted to do just that and in 2008 I jumped into the fray. It was my plan to start with stories in the Motherland then [...]

Saturday March 2nd, 2013 in Sword and Soul | Comments Off

The Chronicles of Piye by Richard Gaskin and Chris Miller

Ever since Chris ‘Crazyhouse’ Miller shared with me that he was working on a Sword and Soul graphic novel I’ve been anxiously awaiting its arrival. Now I can finally say it’s here. The Chronicles of Piye: Inheritance is the first issue of a new Sword and Soul graphic novel by Chris Miller and Richard E. [...]

Monday December 31st, 2012 in Sword and Soul | Comments Off

Hasani Claxton, Sword and Soul Artist

Hasani Claxton was raised on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. He always loved art, but had never met a successful, professional artist when he was growing up. He studied Business at Morehouse College (1999) and Law at Columbia University (2003). While he was serving as an Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx, he began [...]

Friday December 14th, 2012 in Sword and Soul | 4 Comments »

The Cool Factor

A few days ago a Facebook friend posted a link to a blog where the blogger took Disney to task for the lack of people of color in ‘Brave.’ They presented the argument that there were people of color in Scotland during this period and they should have been recognized in the film. The blog [...]

Tuesday December 11th, 2012 in Sword and Soul | 5 Comments »

Push through, pull through and who’s actually your reader

Okay, let me preface this by explaining that before I entered the self publishing business I had no experience in publishing other than adding to the slush piles of various publishers.  I did however have a pretty good business foundation, from employee to manager to small business owner. So as I studied the market and the [...]

Wednesday October 10th, 2012 in Sword and Soul | Comments Off

Warriors of The Bright Country

This is a reprint of a blog I wrote for Blackgate last year. Enjoy…
In the West African bulge is a land known in pre-colonial history as the Sudan. This Sudan is not to be confused with the modern nation that bears the same name. It is a moniker which translates from Arabic to mean [...]

Tuesday October 2nd, 2012 in Sword and Soul | Comments Off

Letting Go

We’ve all done this before. If you didn’t, you should have. As a child we ran to the swing set, hoping to be one of the first to jump on a swing. There was always a little pit under each swing, excavated by dragging and pushing feet. We would kick off then work our arms [...]

Tuesday September 18th, 2012 in Sword and Soul | 4 Comments »

Steamfunk! Anthology Stories and Authors

Here they are, the stories and authors of the upcoming Steamfunk! Anthology. Thanks to everyone who submitted and congratulations to the authors selected. Plans are to debut Steamfunk! at Anachrocon 2013. Let’s get funky!
Author                                    Story Title
Ronald T. Jones                             Benjamin’s Freedom [...]

Monday September 3rd, 2012 in Sword and Soul | 6 Comments »