Summer months are for sports, gardening, and getting together in the back yard with close friends. But apparently nobody told you people, because you spent the entire month on the computer, reading Black Gate blog posts.

July 2012 was one of the best months we’ve ever had, with solid traffic growth and nearly 70 new articles from writers such as Howard Andrew Jones, Joe Bonadonna, Patty Templeton, Patrice Sarath, D.B. Jackson, and many others. Here are the Top 30 most popular articles and links for the month.

And while I’m instructing you, don’t forget to go outside once in a while, maybe get a little sunshine. It’s good for you.

1. New Treasures
2. Under the hood with robert-e-howard
3. Musing on villainy
4. Six-sought-adventure-a-half-dozen-swords-and-sorcery short stories
5. Art-of-the-genre-the-art-of-calvin-and-hobbes
6. Confessions-of-a-guilty-reviewer
7. How-I-met-your-cimmerian-and-other-barbarian-swordsmen
8. Self-sabotage-is-easier-than-writing
9. Black-Gate-goes-to-the-summer-movies-the-amazing-spider-man
10. Vintage-treasures-henry-kuttners-the-graveyard-rats
11. Leigh-brackett-american-writer
12. Clockwork-angels-iii-hope-is-what-remains-to-be-seen
13. Genre-prejudice
14. Edgar-rice-burroughs-mars-part-6-the-master-mind-of Mars
15. Art-of-the-genre-the-art-of-an-inspired-fake
16. Edgar-rice-burroughs-mars-part-7-fighting-man-mars
17. Dungeon-crawl-classics-growing-fresh-from-old-roots
18. Art-of-the-genre-the-art-of-miniatures
19. Pulling-off-or-putting-on-the-blog-mask
20. Dossouye-the-dancers-of-mulukau
21. Eternal-warriors-1-2-and-3-in-ebook
22. The-coming-of-dorgo-the-dowser
23. Better-fantasy-gaming-through-traveller
24. Comics
25. Robert-e-howard-the-sword-collector’s-sword-collection
26. Byzantine-and-early-modern-greek-magic
27. Art-of-the-genre
28. Samurai-7-swords-and-sorcery-with-killer-robots
29. How-galaxy-magazine-saved-robert-silverberg-from-a-life of Smoking
30. House of Black Wings
31. Return-to-the-golden-age-with-tales-from-the-hanging…
32. Goth-chick-news-get-the-lizard-guys-on-the-horn-we got them a Gig
33. Goth-chick-news-beware-the-tall-man-knows-…
34. Art-of-the-genre-the-gamemaster-series-covers

The Top 30 Black Gate blog posts in June are here.