RainHandBooks: Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 6--Available Today!

Over 300 pages of Grim and Gritty Action!
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It is with the honor of the ancient gods that RainHand Books announces the release of Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 6, by our friends at Parallel Universe Publications. As the weightiest tome in the series yet, volume 6 boasts more than 300 pages, with twelve highly detailed treks through the grim veneer of vicious demons, gray warlocks, and the barbarians who ~~love~~ slay them, told in the footsteps of frost giants like Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. Some of the finest names in the genre today are included...and they even let me in, too!

My contribution to this project, Golden Witch of Adzelgar, is a tale of deceit and revenge told from the perspective of a deceased hierarch warioress, wrenched back from death to serve her once-mortal enemies in a world turned upside-down. To date it is the longest of my traditionally published works, and my first official foray into the world of Sword & Sorcery. I'm excited by the opportunity to be a part of Swords & Sorceries, and honored for the chance to share a tale alongside such excellent names!

If it be your pint of mead, pick up a copy today! (And when you're done reading, crush some monster's head with it--it's a nice big book!)

Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 6 is compiled and edited by Parallel Universe's own David A. Riley, featuring art by the prolific Jim Pitts (with additional art for the story Raiding the Graveyard of Lost Ships by its author, Tais Teng. Click here for technical/additional information, or visit Parallel Universe Publications.

What is RainHand?

RainHand Books is the personal website of author Scott M. McCloskey. It's a place to catalog my works, talk about the works of others, and generally listen to myself chatter. The site has been around since I published my first novel in 2012, when it was originally part of a domain called 'ordonline' that focused only upon my Traveler of Ord novel series. Now that it is a site to reflect all of my literary works I use the name 'RainHand', which is a combination of the names of my daughters, whom I am well lost without.

Words of Wisdom

“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”
--Thomas Paine. "The Age of Reason" (1794)

"'I look upon death as going home.'"
--Guan Yu, in Luo Guanzhong. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" (14th Century)

"If you ain't where you are, you're noplace."
--Col. Sherman T. Potter, in M*A*S*H. "Dear Sis" S07E15 (1978)

"The best place to be is here. The best time to be is now, and all's we can say is...let's rock! Be excellent to each other and party on, dudes!"
--Bill S. Preston, esq. & Ted Theodore Logan, in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. (1989)

"Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
--Agent Kay, in Men in Black. (1997)

I am ever reminded by these words to live in the moment, cherish that moment, to see the good and the bright, to open myself to possibilities, and to one day take home what I have learned with appreciation.

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Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 6--Available Today!

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