Howard Andrew Jones

BLACK GATE 15 is another giant-sized issue, and will shortly be out to the printer.  I hope all of you have dropped by to see the fabulous new cover by Donato Giancola. If not, you should visit...

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Dear Black Gate folks, In case it wasn't entirely clear, there really isn't going to be a sister magazine called Spicy Troubadour. Sorry. I should also point out that, in case nobody knew, the...

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Rumors about our new venture have been spreading for weeks, and it's time that John and I finally came clean. Next month we'll be launching a call for submissions to our new, bi-monthly sister ma...

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Burger-Eater, aka the writer of Child of Fire and various BLACK GATE stories, aka Harry Connolly, recently linked to a list of various well-known writers’ list of top ten things writers should ...

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So I see that other magazines are on Facebook, and I was debating the creation of a Facebook page for BLACK GATE. To be honest, I'm still not sure what purpose Facebook really serves in my life...

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Back in November of '09 I mentioned that I’d discuss how my book deal came to be, and I’ve realized since that it’s a tale of connections. The deal itself reads anti-climatically, which is ...

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I hope all Black Gate fans have been keeping up with the web site, where in addition to an ever growing library of fascinating articles we now have a web comic and... more previews! This is a Hu...

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The preview's up! Follow the link here to see the cover and a sneak peek at the contents. The wife and I hadn't really been looking forward to Avatar because we'd heard it was unoriginal and pr...

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All day today the Black Gate bloggers will be posting essays about Robert E. Howard on this, his birthday. I hope you'll drop by and check it out. A preview of the coming issue, 14, should be g...

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I was going to post something clever on Livejournal today, but I'm not actually that clever, and I'd already spent a good 45 minutes or more writing a new review on the Black Gate web site, so I'...

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Black Gate 14 has been proofed and will shortly be heading to the printer. This means it's several weeks late, but we're hoping to be forgiven for that because it's about TWICE the size. Yep, it'...

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I just turned the game reviews over to John O'Neill. It's the last section -- save for the Knights of the Dinner Table art -- that was needed to complete the upcoming issue, most of which John al...

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I keep meaning to get back here more often, and it keeps not happening. But I do have good news. ONE: I am extremely pleased to announce that the talented Charles Saunders, creator of Imaro and ...

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I may be posting sporadically still, but work's going on behind the scenes. We've got a great lineup of books and games for reviewing this time -- Bill Ward's come on board to manage the book rev...

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Bison Books has recently printed two more collections of Harold Lamb's swashbuckling historicals, and they're discussed in depth today in The Wall Street Journal in an article by John Miller . W...

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With summer waning, I wanted to take a moment to provide thumbnail reviews of things many of you should find of interest.   DVD Rome - Pretty much a must-see for any fan of sword-and-sorc...

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Hello all, My long absence notwithstanding, Black Gate is alive and well. John, with some help from my old friend Joe McCullough, has been working his way through the submissions. Black Gate 14 ...

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You might not have noticed, but we don't see a whole lot of Moslem protagonists in science fiction and fantasy. A recent collection assembled by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad and Ahmed A. Khan sough...

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I was on the phone with Eric (EEKNIGHT ) the other day and something he said led me to look into the copy of his fourth Age of Fire novel, Dragon Strike . I read everything from Eric the moment...

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Steve Tompkins has died. It wasn’t just that Steve was incredibly well read, it was that he could tap into his vast depth of knowledge and recognize themes and connections that no one else ha...

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Black Gate 13 is going to press. It's a fine, fine issue. There are a few familiar names, but many new ones. Those who were disappointed by the emergence of a regular crowd of writers might be el...

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For a while now I've mentioned the new look for the Black Gate web site. Neither 300 Spartans nor 10,000 maniacs could shout loudly enough to proclaim my pleasure with the finished product. Black...

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There isn't a great deal to report today. I've been so busy the last weeks, even weekends, that I sometimes find that I waste my Mondays between classes doing pretty much nothing. Of course, mos...

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My friend Steve Tompkins threw down a gauntlet the other day, and I'm going to have to pick it up. He's written so glowingly of Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself over at The Cimmerian that I'm g...

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Year's Best While I haven't had easy Internet access for the last little while, I have still been busy working away in the inner sanctum of Black Gate's rooftop headquarters.  My favorite chai...

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