Neither Beg Nor Yield

NEITHER BEG NOR YIELD is the culmination of my career, the exemplar of my publishing. This IS THE BOOK of Sword & Sorcery to emphatically demonstrate that Sword & Sorcery is far more about an ATTITUDE than any other thing or list of components. I and up to 20 authors are here to tell you the Riddle of S&S has never been simpler!

"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." ~ Charles Bukowski

The authors appearing in NEITHER BEG NOR YIELD are all chosen by me. They write what I want to read. They are the authors who have shaken my world over the last 20+ years and entrenched themselves in my reading DNA. THESE are the names that readily came to my mind when I thought of this theme. Which is amazing, really, as I’ve read 1000s of pages of 100s of stories and I did not struggle to fill my TOC with the storytellers who deliver what I seek.

To my joy, one by one, all of them agreed! Authors who haven’t written S&S in years; authors who no longer write short fiction; authors whose schedules were too full; authors who weren’t certain they could find the right story. They...

…ALL SAID YES!