By The Sword’s Edge – Free eBook

As the Stonehearted series nears completion I have decided to make the first book in the series free to download as an eBook.

If you haven’t read it yet, you can now get this in Kindle or ePub format from most of the normal eBook retailers. More details below.

Other books in the series will now by 99c or 99p or equivalent in other currencies, so if you like the first book in the series it will be really easy and affordable to read the others.

By The Sword’s Edge, Volume 1 of Stonehearted

Words: c. 17,000
Pages: 74 (print)

Get a free eBook at: Amazon.comAmazon.co.uk

And other Amazon stores!

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By The Sword’s Edge is the first volume of Stonehearted, a serialized novel.

When the cut from the blade runs deep – You need a heart of Stone

In 1370 two families are thrust together by the harsh realities of war. Lady d’Aubray holds Sarbrook castle, but has sold nearly everything to pay the ransom of her husband, who was captured in France over a decade ago. Eolande d’Aubray, the missing lord’s daughter, is desperate for her father to return. She remembers little of him, but she does know that he is the only man who can rescue her from an unwanted marriage.

William Stone has bought much of the d’Aubray estate having made a fortune as a cloth merchant, and is looking forward to seeing his two sons move up in the world. For his eldest, Richard, he hopes to make squire to Sir Robert Knolles, commander of the English army set to invade France this summer, as long as he can pay the consideration demanded by Knolles. But when Knolles and his ambitious captain, Minsterworth, visit the Stone’s to agree their terms, a tragic series of events destroys the Stone’s world forever.

For Richard Stone there is only one place to find peace.

In war.

Time’s Arrow Published!

Sorry for the delay in getting this out – there was a bit of a delay with some of the distribution channels, but Time’s Arrow is now available as an eBook globally!

In the far future Time Travel is a reality. A researcher uses it to go back in time to the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. William Chan finds much that he would expect—English archers raining arrows on the heads of heavily armed French knights, mood and blood. But there is an unexpected turn of events that have far-reaching consequences.

Time’s Arrow is a time-travelling short story with a historical fantasy theme.

Available to Purchase at:

Amazon UK | Amazon US | Other Amazon Stores
Smashwords | Kobo | Barnes & Noble | iBooks

Seamus Sweeney on the Radio

Seamus Sweeney, a previous contributor to Alt Hist, has been featured in a radio documentary for RTE the Irish broadcaster. Hes been involved in writing a pseudo-biography of Fr Noise. You can find the documentary at https://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2017/1102/917047-a-man-out-of-time/. I encourage you to have a listen. It’s an interesting story and piece of pseudo-fact—you could call it Fake History perhaps?

Seamus has told me more about similar projects he has been working on:

And indeed having got a taste for this I began writing biographies of so-called “fake artists” on Spotify – basically on various playlists spotify seems to use artists with no presence anywhere except Spotify, the suspicion is they hire session musicians to reduce playing royalties. .. examples of my bios are here https://seamussweeney.wordpress.com/2018/02/06/the-lost-world-of-amity-cadet/ and here https://seamussweeney.wordpress.com/2018/02/09/the-lost-world-of-ana-olgica/ and https://seamussweeney.wordpress.com/2018/07/10/the-lost-world-of-enno-aare/

Time’s Arrow – new Short Story Coming Soon!

I am putting the finishing touches to a new short story – Time’s Arrow.

Here’s some more information about it. I’ll post an excerpt and the cover of the story during the next week.

In the far future Time Travel is a reality. A researcher uses it to go back in time to the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. William Chan finds much that he would expect—English archers raining arrows on the heads of heavily armed French knights, mood and blood. But there is an unexpected turn of events that have far-reaching consequences. 
Time’s Arrow is a time-travelling short story with a historical fantasy theme. It’s about five and a half thousand words long, so should take about twenty minutes to read.

WARHAMMER FANTASY ROLEPLAY 1ST EDITION PUBLISHED ADVENTURES

There were really only two major campaigns for WFRP 1e – the Enemy Within campaign being the biggy. Doomstones was originally written (conceived) apparently for D&D but then got published as a WFRP campaign.

The other two campaigns are more thematically linked series of adventures.

Enemy Within Campaign

Mistaken Identity

Shadows over Bögenhafen

Death on the Reik

Power Behind the Throne

Something Rotten in Kislev

Empire in Flames

Optional:

Grapes of Wrath (from White Dwarf and also in the Restless Dead Campaign book)

Doomstones Campaign

Fire in the Mountains

Blood in Darkness

Death Rock

Dwarf Wars

Heart of Chaos

The Restless Dead Campaign

More info about The Restless Dead

  • Night of Blood
  • On the Road
  • Eureka
  • A Rough Night at the Three Feathers
  • The Affair of the Hidden Jewel
  • The Ritual
  • The Haunting Horror
  • This book also includes Grapes of Wrath and several optional rules.

Death’s Dark Shadow

More info about Death’s Dark Shadow

  • The Curse of the Reichanbachs
  • Mini-Adventures:
  • Treachery at Winter’s Teeth
  • Dangerous Delicacies
  • Cattle Thieves!
  • An Affair of Honour
  • Also a number of adventure outlines/hooks

Warhammer Companion (aka Warhammer Grimoire)

More info about the Warhammer Companion

  • The Howling Time
  • With a Little Help from my Friends
  • Brothers in Blood

Adventures Published in Book Format:

Lichemaster

More info about the Lichemaster

Castle Drachenfels

More info about Castle Drachenfels

The Dying of the Light

More info about The Dying of the Light

Adventures only in White Dwarf

  • The Black Knight (WD 83) – also for AD&D and Pendragon
  • Letters from a Foreign Land (WD 93) – also for Call of Cthulhu and MERP
  • Mayhem in the Mermaid (WD 96)
  • The Floating Gardens of Bahb-Elon (WD 100)

What Other People are Reading on My Blog

I thought I’d start off by posting some links to my most popular blog posts to give you an idea of what other people have enjoyed reading:

A critique of the Lost Mine of Phandelver D&D Adventure

By the Sword’s Edge – one of my books! 

Why George RR Martin is not an American Tolkien – bit of lit crit

What did people believe in the Middle Ages part 1

How to use tools like Vassal to create a Virtual Miniatures Wargame