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New guest blogger: M. Harold Page

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.

11 Comments

1:

I am? OMG? (Starts typing frantically.)

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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

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So, what do you think of their techniques?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmLaZHStmI

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So, are you the nice man we have to thank for the swordswoman and sword work in Halting State?

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An attentive reader, always nice to see.

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We need to see this guy and Neal Stephenson in a judicial duel

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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.

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T' ancient Lancashire martial art o' Ecky T'oomp!!!

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Or was that you? In which case, thanks.

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"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.

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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.

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