[Wilshire]

Thought this seemed like a good place to post this.
Grimdark magazine has posted intentions to start a kickstarter on June 15th for an anthology of fantasy writers.

TBH I don't know most of the names, but R Scott Bakker and Tchaikovsky obviously stand out.

I'm pretty excited about it, anyone else?
Anyone want to weigh in on some of the names?

https://grimdarkmaga...S9ReTbY.twitter

[Abyss]

Wilshire, on 27 May 2016 - 04:55 PM, said:

Thought this seemed like a good place to post this.
Grimdark magazine has posted intentions to start a kickstarter on June 15th for an anthology of fantasy writers.

TBH I don't know most of the names, but R Scott Bakker and Tchaikovsky obviously stand out.

I'm pretty excited about it, anyone else?
Anyone want to weigh in on some of the names?

https://grimdarkmaga...S9ReTbY.twitter

I recognize a few.. Schaefer's had some love here, Wurts is a classic... a few others i recognize but have no opinion on.

I'll watch this with interest... my prejudices against anthologies are well entraneched and based on far too much experience but as a means to get a book published i'm curious to see how this goes.
Also, anything that keeps Bakker writing fiction is golden.

[amphibian]

Marc Turner is an occasional visitor here. Very good writer in a similar to Malazan style.

Bradley Beaulieu is pretty alright. I wasn't a huge enough fan to finish reading his series beyond the first book, but in terms of technical ability, he's a fine writer.

[Salt-Man Z]

Salyards and Schafer are both very good.

[Macros]

Im.not sure I get it.
Is this a fan doing a kickstarter and needs money to pay these authors to write?
Or is it a collection of already successful authors looking for money to write?
If the latter Im baffled as to why they need a kickstarter. Just write something, it'll be published

[worry]

It's a genre magazine trying to fund the whole enterprise top to bottom, as far as I can tell.

[Coco with marshmallows]

Abyss, on 27 May 2016 - 05:34 PM, said:

I'll watch this with interest... my prejudices against anthologies are well entraneched and based on far too much experience

Largely this. One (maybe 2) good stories from writers you may or may not have heard of, and a whole heap of by the numbers garbage that could have been knocked out in an afternoon by people you've never heard of before or since.

Having said that, Bakker, Staveley, Tchaikovsky and Williams i've read and enjoyed. Beaulieu as well.

That gives it (for me) 5 potential good stories. puts it 2/3 authors ahead of most anthologies i've seen. And an (apparently) interesting unifying theme for the stories.

will watch with interest, and peruse if it ever makes it to publishing.

[Tatterdemalion]

This is the first anthology I've seen where I recognize more authors than not. I'm game... if I had money, that is. Otherwise I'm game. I have big plans to read Salyards, Staveley and Turner's works as I've heard plenty of praise - just got this tome called Fall of Light (and Dancer's Lament) to finish first.

[polishgenius]

I don't have an awful lot of time for Grimdark Magazine, because from what I've seen of it they take the concept of Grimdark as a genre far too seriously for my tastes, but that is a fine collection of authors they've assembled there.

[Salt-Man Z]

This has been funded now, with 3 stretch goals met, including artwork for every story and free ebooks for all backers (4 issues of GdM + 2 novellas by someone named Matthew Ward.)

I'm in for the ebook, as it (plus whatever goodies come with it) is only $9 USD. (The Kickstarter itself is in AUD.)

[Salt-Man Z]

8 issues of GdM (ebook) have now been unlocked.

[Salt-Man Z]

More rewards unlocked: additional authors added (including Janny Wurtz) as well as more free ebooks thrown in (including the BLACKGUARDS fantasy anthology.)