Rage of the Behemoth

The RotB Heroic Adventure Anthology will contain 21 stories about the biggest, baddest, boldest behemoths ever to roar across the pages of heroic adventure! 100,000+ words of monstrous mayhem record the ferocious battles that rage between gargantuan creatures of myth and legend and the warriors and wizards who wage war against, beside, and astride them. Behemoths and battles will be presented in four-story sections of five different habitats introduced by the stunning pen of Johnney Perkins: Frozen Wastes, Scalding Sands, Depthless Seas, Mysterious Jungles, and Ageless Mountains.

Check the chart at the bottom of this page
for status and names!

~ Cover art by John Whitman ~ Just a rough idea of how the cover will appear as divided into the five terrains with a behemoth from one of the four stories in each. From left (back cover) to right: Frozen Wastes, Scalding Sands, Depthless Seas, Mysterious Jungles, Ageless Mountains.

Guidelines:
Behemoth and terrain must be featured in the story. The behemoth must play an integral role in the story -- your story cannot be told the same without it! You have free reign over all else regarding the creatures -- they can be good, evil, indifferent, chaotic, protagonist, antagonist, sidekick, human, animal, golem, based in myth, lore, history, or your own imagination . . . whatever you can think of and create, as long as it falls within the RBE genres of heroic fantasy, sword & sorcery, and historical adventure (and avoids those that do not).

• Word Count: 3,000 – 7,000 (no reprints)
• Payment: 1¢ per word; paid $10 upon acceptance, remainder after publication with 1 contributer's copy
• Rights: First Volume and Electronic Display World Anthology Rights

Submissions:
Please submit your story attached as an .RTF file via email to editor@<remove>roguebladesentertainment.com (don't forget to remove the <remove>).
Please use the subject line to reflect the habitat and title of your story as in the following: Submission: RotB – Desert – Swan in Heat (For snail mail instructions, please read the RBE Submissions policies).

Open Submissions begins 1 June 2008
Target Submissions close 1 January 2009*
Target Publication 1 June 2009*

*Be advised that every section will have a different creature in each story - so no repeats of behemoths within each habitat. This means that submissions can only close and publication work begin once there is a different behemoth in every terrain and all terrains are filled. The anthology will remain open until such time. Keep track of available story slots here on the RBE RotB site, where a list of up-to-date story acceptances in each terrain will be maintained.

Watch as all 20 story slots fill in! Guess which terrains will fill first - or take the longest to round out. Check back often to discover if when your favorite author joins the anthology!

Terrain	Featuring:
Frozen Wastes	Mary Rosenblum - Ice dragon	Awaiting  Rewrites & Contracts.
Scalding Sands	Jean Rabe - Giant Serpent	Awaiting  Rewrites & Contracts.	Awaiting  Rewrites & Contracts.
Depthless Seas	Andrew Offutt & Richard Lyon - Chinese dragon turtle	SEAS ARE FILLED!	Awaiting Contracts.	Names Pending.
Mysterious Jungles	Brian Ruckley - Giant Serpent
Ageless Mountains	C.L. Werner - Gashadokuro	MOUNTAINS ARE FILLED!	Awaiting  Rewrites & Contracts.	Names Pending.

 

Rogue Blades Entertainment (RBE) is a publisher of heroic adventure fiction, from sword and sorcery to heroic fantasy to historical adventure. We deliver the hard-hitting, fast-paced tales of ringing steel and dark magics found in the epic battles of lore and myth, updated and written for the modern reader. Honor, duty, courage - sure, they're here, but so are opportunity, freedom, and survival. Rely on RBE for adrenaline-driving, Xtreme adventure!

Editor
Jason M. Waltz
Copy Editors
Sherry Hooker
Art Acquisitions
Johnney Perkins
Prose Acquisitions
Jeff Draper
Jeffrey Beesler
David Pitchford
Dan Nelson
Verse Acquisitions
David Pitchford
Proofreaders
Richard Stein
Dave Panchyk

Critical praise for Return of the Sword:
"...proof of just how far the genre's come since its comic book days."
-Richard Marcus of Blog Critics
"Editor Jason M. Waltz has put together a fine collection..."
-Janice Clark at The Fix
"This rivals (and even surpasses) some entries in Andrew Offutt’s Swords Against Darkness series..."
-Wesley Lambert, author