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New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2024

Created by Brackenbury Books

Sword & Sorcery magazine featuring short fiction, non-fiction, and gorgeous art. Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling! Luxurious hardcover, classic softcover, and accessible digital formats.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Final 48 Hours, Magazine Production Report, Bonus Story Unlocked, and more!
8 months ago – Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 08:16:48 AM

Yup, the campaign ends at 11am EST this Saturday, and you've all just unlocked our second artist raise!



Thank you so much! Fingers crossed we can get another author raise, maybe even another artist raise after that, before the curtain falls on our 2024 crowdfund.

We've also just unlocked the bonus story, "Hunter", to go in one of this year's issues! As I write this we're only two Facebook shares of the campaign from unlocking the other story, "Something Oath-Like", so please consider hitting that share button.

Heck, it'd be really fun if we could get some new ink on Nat!



Meanwhile, production progress is strong! Below, with names cropped out, is our Excel table for tracking manuscripts (top) and illustrations (bottom):


Finally, DON'T FORGET

Backers are not charged for pledges until just after the campaign ends, and they won't be charged for shipping until several months from now, when we're about four weeks away from shipping the issues to you all. This splits your purchase into two, widely spaced payments rather than one all-together.

Our current goal for shipping out our issues is "Summer 2024", so hopefully around the end of July, maybe earlier if we really make good time, some time in August if there are hiccups.

Alright, onward and upward! Hope we see you at tomorrow night's "7pm est -???" livestream crowdfund finale.

SECRET HARDCOVER UPGRADE...REVEALED!
8 months ago – Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 07:36:30 AM

Hardcovers are great! They...


  • Are durable.

  • Have lay-flat, saddle-stich binding.

  • Come with bookmark ribbons, a different color for each issue.

  • Have unique cover designs, different from the softcover & digital formats.

    and

  • New in 2024, they contain gorgeous endsheet art!

What's an "endsheet"? It's the absolute inside of the cover plus the very first, and - in the back - very last, pages.

For example:


We are currently working with Babe & Oak, illustrator & surface pattern designer, to create an original "toss surface pattern" design which will be used in the endsheets of issues 3&4, and all future hardcover issues.

A toss surface pattern design is a layout in which the motifs are arranged in a scattered, but balanced way. For example:



Our design concept will be Sword & Sorcery themed, naturally, with swirling battle-axes, snakes, and sorcery!

Elements of the design will be customized for each issue, changing colors to match the two-color pairing within the issue's logo. This means you can expect to see white & red in issue three's endsheets while issue four's endsheets will feature purple & yellow.



One last thing to know about hardcover issues - they are printed in very limited quantities! Last year's issue one is sold out, and there's only 17 copies left of issue #2 in hardcover. Due to the costs involved, once an issue is sold out it is gone for good.

So this crowdfunding campaign is the best time to secure a copy! 


If you haven't already, please consider pledging for, or upgrading to, hardcovers so you can enjoy all they have to offer - including our upcoming, gorgeous new endsheet design.

DUNGEON SYNTH PARTY THIS FRIDAY NIGHT, PAY RAISES, AND MORE!
9 months ago – Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 11:05:22 AM

DUNGEON SYNTH LIVESTREAM PARTY THIS FRIDAY 
Dungeon Synth is an exhilarating musical subgenre that has a great deal of artistic crossover with our beloved Sword & Sorcery, so we thought it might be fun to have a Dungeon Synth night as one of our livestreams!



It starts at 7pm EST, featuring "S" from Dungeon Synth Magazine, Fenwalker, and Erang! There will be a presentation on Dungeon Synth so even if you've near heard of it, you'll be fine, as well as short interviews with the musicians, and music video screenings.



Some free download codes have even been donated to be shared in the chat over the course of the event!



PAYING CREATIVES FEELS GOOD, MAN
We've unlocked one author pay raise, one artist pay raise, and are very close to our next author pay raise!

Please keep sharing the campaign and, if you haven't already, consider pledging - all our stretch goals are contributor pay raises from here to eternity...

WEE REMINDERS
There's a lot of moving parts to this campaign, so you may appreciate being reminded....

  • We have Rainbow Metal Battle-Axe pins available in the Add-Ons section. Stickers and discounted pairings of issues #1&2 are also available there.

  • We're about 3/4 of the way there to unlocking two bonus stories, one by sharing the campaign on Facebook, the other on Twitter, both through the respective buttons on their posts (both attached at the bottom of this announcement).

Live outside the U.S.? Your shipping just got cheaper!
9 months ago – Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 03:34:58 PM

Formerly our estimate for shipping issues 3&4 of the magazine looked like this:


But JUST NOW we reached our second stretch goal annnnnd....

Huzzah! That's right, five bucks off for Canadians, ten bucks off for people living literally anywhere in the world that isn't the U.S. or Canada.

If you're an international digital backer who was on the fence about grabbing physical issues, you may wish to consider switching to softcover or luxurious hardcovers!

Next goal? Paying our authors more! After that? Paying our artists more! LET'S DO IT!

Double-Art achieved! Next Up: International Shipping Discount! (Plus secret info, for backers only...)
9 months ago – Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 09:19:44 AM

Recently we crossed this very important threshold which means all stories and articles, other than book reviews & interviews, will have twice as much interior art as planned!


Meanwhile we're already about half of the way to everybody outside the United States getting a discount on shipping!


And, if you missed our previous announcement, you may wish to know:

Thanks so much for your support, and for sharing the campaign! Speaking of which, we're more than halfway to unlocking two separate bonus stories by sharing one on Facebook and the other on Twitter.