Robert Rhodes ⚔️
@rrhodeswriter
Fantasy author. SFWA. Servant of the Secret Fire. Gen-X and among the last to grow up in the pre-internet age. Author of SHADOW, LIGHT, & STEEL and FURY tales. He/him. No AI.
Delighted to announce my (very) short S&S story “By the Fountainside” is now available in Old Moon Quarterly 10. I’m grateful to EM Morrissey and Greg Mele for helping polish this one. @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social @lizardskinshoujo.bsky.social
AT LAST! At last, I’m thrilled to share a sneak preview of my story “The Fury’s Blade” from Battleborn Magazine #1. Copies are going out to the backers and being distributed at Robert E. Howard Days in Cross Plains. What an honor. There are *four* more tales of Gabriela in the queue. Enjoy!⚔️
Pleased to present the artwork for my story, "Huntress of the High Trails," which is live at Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #68 and recommended by Tangent Online. This piece was created by Karolína Wellartová, whose bio is at the story's end.
Perhaps you were expecting Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser? Ha! You get the inimitable Chris Willrich (left; @librariangoblin.bsky.social) and me, plotting over lunch in the San Francisco Bay Area. ⚔️
Love the details in this one. There's an air to it that I've been trying to weave into the fifth Fury tale I'm drafting. "The Dedication" by Edmund Blair Leighton (1908).
ANDOR is a masterpiece. No notes. Like ROGUE ONE, it enriches the Star Wars canon ... and has given me a new shorthand to distinguish Sword & Sorcery from Epic Fantasy: STAR WARS is epic fantasy; ANDOR and ROGUE ONE are S&S. (1/2)
I'm delighted to announce that, after undue procrastination on my part, I'm now a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA; formerly Science Fiction Writers of America)!
Younger son did a fantastic job with his valedictory speech. Here, on graduation morning, he took part in a brilliant tradition of returning to his elementary school for a final walk. 🥰
Younger son has put in the work. Ran 1:58 in the 800m, taking 3rd and earning All-County. His teammates were 1st and 2nd, so they swept the event! (His teammate who won broke a longstanding county record with a 1:54.) So proud of him! 👏
Our memorial portrait of Athena arrived. What an empress. 🥲 Art by Crown & Paw.
Our beloved cat, Athena, died unexpectedly this weekend. She was especially close to our younger son. I buried her in the woods (conservation easement) behind our neighbor's yard. She was a beautiful, quintessential cat, and we miss her terribly.
For fun, I sent Shadowheart into her former cloister alone. She won. (Balanced, no mods). #bg3 #HouseofBlueLeaves
Going offline for a week or so to read, rest, bask. Thankful for you, friends. ⚔️
Victory! Beat Baldur’s Gate 3 Honour Mode with no shortcuts. (First go, I let Gale nuke the final boss.) Ansur, Raphael—all fell to my warlock Ilsa Faust and crew. A great game, but time to write more than ever. Whew. #goldendice #bg3 #dnd
Congratulations to @howardandrewjones.bsky.social on the release of his new novel, the second in this dynamic series. Check it out! But only after reading the first, on pain of gladiatorial conscription.
Obligatory: this is my book, i.e. a piece of my soul (Horcrux?)