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Thanks the signal boost, John!
How did I miss this? Damn!
Will Sword & Sorcery and adventure fantasy return to Black Gate? That’s what made me come here in the first place but with the exception of the Black Company reviews there doesn’t seem to have been anything for months now.
> Will Sword & Sorcery and adventure fantasy return to Black Gate?
Hi Martin,
Thanks for the question! Ten years ago, the Black Gate website was all about promoting the magazine, and I was responsible for 90% of the content… so it naturally reflected my interests, and the adventure-fantasy focus of the magazine.
The print version of Black Gate folded in 2011, and since then we’ve focused on growing the website. Over the last 7 years we’ve attracted over 40 new bloggers and writers. They don’t all reflect the same narrow interest in fantasy we had in 2008, which I think is a good thing. We still have the same love of adventure fantasy and S&S, but now it’s only part of Black Gate’s mandate to cover all forms of modern fantasy.
But we’re always looking for new writers, and especially writers who share our love of classic S&S. We hear you loud and clear that you’re hungry for more adventure fantasy coverage, and we’d love the same thing.