This campaign funds three issues of New Edge Sword & Sorcery magazine (#5, #6, and #7).
Each issue will hold approx. 45,000 words of Sword & Sorcery fiction, as well as interviews, essays, book reviews, and more.
Images of previous issues
WHAT IS SWORD & SORCERY? A unique fantasy sub-genre known for short, episodic tales with historical inspiration and horror elements, of outsider protagonists with personal motivations, often facing dark and dangerous magic!
WHAT IS NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY? A dynamic magazine "Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling!"
NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY IS AVAILABLE IN
ACCESSIBLE DIGITAL
CLASSIC SOFTCOVER and
LUXURIOUS HARDCOVER
A previous issue showing off our three column layout.
Our magazine pages are a spacious 8 1/2 x 11 inches, printed like a book, using quality, cream paper that is firmer and more durable than standard, floppy magazine paper.
Hardcovers feature bookmark ribbons, lay flat sewn stitch binding, and end page illustrations with coloring customized for each issue.
ACRES OF AMAZING ART
Twenty-seven artists will have original work spread across our new issues, representing a wide variety of exciting styles!
Images from portfolios and past issues.
SWORDS & SECRETS
As we get closer to launching the crowdfund we'll be revealingsecrets like:
WHY BACK THE CROWDFUND?
Some people like to wait and get the thing after the crowdfund. Here's why you shouldn't do that...
The following are EXCLUSIVE to the crowdfund:
Free digital copies come with all physical formats of the magazine.
You pay shipping separately from the cost of the issues themselves. Shipping is charged close to fulfillment, many months later, breaking the cost up into two smaller, widely spaced payments.
You can help unlock an International Shipping Discount stretch goal that will make Canadian shipping $5 USD cheaper, and all other shipping outside America $10 USD cheaper.
We did it last year, can you help us do it again?
You can help unlock a bonus story for every issue by sharing the campaign on Bluesky!
Discounted back issues make our crowdfunds the best time to complete your collection.
Pledge to have your face drawn into a Sword & Sorcery illustration! That's right, there will be very few, very limited pledge tiers where you can get yourself drawn into a scene for one of our stories - you may be a guard, a pirate, a recently murdered wizard...
The most active backer in our campaign's community tab will get free softcovers of all three issues, annotated with behind-the-scenes secrets written in the margins by our editor!
All backers will receive a postcard of the cover art from issue 5, returning backers will get the same from issue 6, and those who back us in the first 48 hours will receive one for issue 7!
Heck, THE VERY FIRST BACKER WILL BE MAILED A PIECE OF ORIGINAL ART from one of our 2024 issues!
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