The premiere issue of Azure Keep Quarterly contains six stories of great fantasy and science fiction from authors: Ariel Belanger, Michael Haynes, J. A. Wilkins, Robert J. McCarter, Jeremy Terry, and Ken Hoover. Azure Keep Quarterly is an imprint of Azure Keep, a 21st century publisher, and is released four times per year.
Martin was corrupted early by his older brother’s interests in Heavy Metal and Dungeons and Dragons, and enjoyed reading as a child (Tolkien, Eddings, Salvatore, Weis and Hickman were some favorites). After becoming enthralled with the appendices of The Lord of the Rings, Martin rel-ished building worlds and constructing languages. He drew maps of far-away places and labeled them with strange characters, even going so far as creating fantasy tax forms after he found a 1040EZ at the local library. Mar-tin started Azure Keep in 2017 to bring great games and fiction to life.
His first works, the Ruma: Dawn of Empire role playing game, and the Tales of Ruma anthology (as editor and contributor), can be found on AzureKeep.com.
OK, my review is biased since I'm the editor, but I loved the stories in this first issue. Had a great time creating it along with the magazine's website and am looking forward to sharing it with others. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.