Hi! I'm about to head off to France for a weekend at Imaginales, a French SF/F convention. While I'm gone, you can expect the usual guest blogging to take place.
To start things off, I'd like to introduce M Harold Page, Scottish author and amateur swordsman. He blogs regularly at the Hugo-puppyinated heroic fiction site Black Gate Magazine, and this weekend he's here to shamelessly plug "Shieldwall: Barbarians!", his Dark Age adventure yarn which you can buy from Amazon. He's also going to be talking about some other topics, including self-publishing and (I hope) German mediaeval martial arts.
I am? OMG? (Starts typing frantically.)
I'm still waiting for the first reenactment-based discussion of late Mediaeval Northern English martial arts.
...Ecky.... THUMP! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJxGi8bizEg
So, what do you think of their techniques?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmLaZHStmI
So, are you the nice man we have to thank for the swordswoman and sword work in Halting State?
An attentive reader, always nice to see.
We need to see this guy and Neal Stephenson in a judicial duel
I clicked the link and your French cover art is well, very French. But I kind of like it. Fun cos-play instead of taking itself seriously cos-play, like we get in the Anglophonic book world.
T' ancient Lancashire martial art o' Ecky T'oomp!!!
Or was that you? In which case, thanks.
"So, are you the nice man we have to thank for the swordswoman and sword work in Halting State?"
I was one of Charlie's entry points to HEMA, so kind of yes. I did choreograph that sword blow at the end, though - amusingly - our interpretation of the Krumphau has significantly shifted since then.
I think he trains more than I do! Also, I wrote a Foreworld SideQuest, so I count myself as part of his retinue for swordish purposes.