We’re excited to announce that Dariel Quiogue’s latest Orhan Timur novelette, The Mother of Amber, will appear in Issue #1 of Swords Against! Magazine.
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I first ran into Dariel’s work on his RPG blog: Swashbuckling Planets. It seemed we had similar tastes in gaming and fiction, to wit, as pulpy as possible. Then, I picked up Swords of the Four Winds, a compilation of four sword & sorcery novellas set in an Asia-inspired setting. I know there were other characters in that compilation, but (maybe like everyone) I only had eyes for Orhan Timur, the Snow Leopard, a gray-eyed wanderer of the endless plains.
Since then, Dariel has written many many Snow Leopard stories for various publications, including a self-published Orhan Timur compilation called Track of the Snow Leopard. Most recently he wrote two novellas featuring the Snow Leopard — The Hunt of a Thousand Leagues and the Walls of Shira-Yulun, both published by Brackenbury Books.
He writes stories about many other characters in other worlds, but it’s always in that pulpy sweet spot that I love.
It’s safe to say that Dariel Quiogue is one of the faces of the new sword & sorcery resurgence. He writes yarns that hearken back to the days when the form was being formed while bringing those pulpy, action-packed stories forward to a new generation. When I first thought about forming a sword & sorcery fiction publication, I knew I wanted Dariel to be a part of it. Keeping that blood and thunder flame alive!
In 1977, Dariel R. A. Quiogue was simultaneously exposed to Star Wars, Herodotus, Homer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Robert E. Howard, and his brain has never been the same since. He now writes F&SF in his spare time, flavored by his fascination for history, science, the sea, and the richness and diversity of Asian cultures. His debut story first appeared in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly and its first Best Of volume, and he has since contributed to New Edge of Sword and Sorcery, Die By the Sword Volume I, A Book of Blades Volume 3, and other S&S publications. His creative motto is "Simple stories, powerfully told." He will be mostly silent this year, as he's devoting it to writing the material for his collection Swords of the Four Winds Volume 2.
Goodreads author Page: www.goodreads.com/author/show/6463403.Dariel_R_A_Quiogue