Sword-and-sorcery and heavy metal are among a small handful of my great passions. I write about these and other related topics on my blog, The Silver Key (https://thesilverkey.blogspot.com/). Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery (2020, Pulp Hero Press) is my first book. I'm working on a second book, a heavy metal memoir.
What's brewing with Arcane Arts: Dispatches From The Silver Key
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Brian Murphy
Sword-and-sorcery and heavy metal are among a small handful of my great passions. I write about these and other related topics on my blog, The Silver Key (https://thesilverkey.blogspot.com/). Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery (2020, Pulp Hero Press) is my first book. I'm working on a second book, a heavy metal memoir.
Dispatches from the silver key Arcane Arts We were blessed with a particularly beautiful fall foliage here in New England, startling orange and red and bright yellows. But in the past week the color drained out as the leaves fell all at once. Caring for an ill parent impacts your mood and mindset. But life isn’t unrelentingly dark. There’s always something sorcerous to report on. So let’s get to it. Howard home nears funding goal In April 2023 I attended Robert E. Howard Days in Cross Plains,...
Dispatches from the silver key Arcane Arts I appreciate the well-wishes and support after last week’s email. Please keep my father in your prayers. He’s getting a lot of support from family and caregivers, and he needs it. We’ve since learned more about his diagnosis, and it is grim: Stage IV cancer of the esophagus, with metastases to his lungs and adrenal gland. But we’re fighting. His oncologist is recommending chemotherapy. Last Friday I took him to the hospital for a port-a-cath...
Dispatches from the silver key Arcane Arts I’ve had a blessed year. Fantastic times with family and friends, interesting travel, and rewarding writing and publishing. But I’ve lived long enough to know that luck has a way of shifting, and the Fates sometimes morph into Furies. For a few weeks my father had been experiencing discomfort and reflux while eating solid food. We were thinking GERD or an aggravation of an old hiatal hernia or some other chronic condition. His PCP prescribed a trial...