Posts Tagged ‘runes’

  • Metal History: Runes

    May 11th, 2010 | metal history, runes | steff | 2 Comments

    rune-stone

    Continuing Folk Metal week into it’s second week (thus making it Folk Metal Fortnight – ah, aliteration), I thought I’d talk about those stick letters adorning the cover of every folk metal album – runes. Prior to the adoption of the Latin alphabet – along with everything else Christian – in around AD 700 – [...]

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  • Starting a Blog

    April 21st, 2010 | Steff, ask a bogan, runes | steff | 3 Comments

    elvira-gramaphone-blythe-blonde

    Dear Steff Metal I’ve been reading your blog for a few months now. It’s very different to the other blogs I read - totally inspiring! I’m a visual artist, and I’m thinking of starting a blog to help promote my work (I have an Etsy store but no website as yet). But I don’t want to [...]

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  • Annoucing the Launch of Grymm & Epic ebooks!

    April 18th, 2010 | Steff, metalheads who read, runes, tr00 metal life | steff | No Comments

    grymm-and-epic-guide-to-blogging

    I am so excited to tell you about my ebook project! Grymm & Epic ebooks is my line of ebooks about the heavy metal life. They are like my blog posts, but much, much longer. I wanted a way to talk in-depth about topics I’m passionate about, and since I’ve already written five ebooks, the [...]

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  • Heavy Metal Phrasebook

    April 5th, 2010 | metalheads who read, runes, tr00 metal life | steff | 5 Comments

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    A few years ago, I wrote a novel about the heavy metal apocalypse. I won’t say any more about that, except it was quite brilliantly funny, set in New Zealand, and completly un-appetizing to publishers. At the back of the book, I wrote a glossary of common metal terms, for the uninitiated reader. Since the [...]

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  • Become a writer … the heavy metal way

    September 24th, 2009 | ask a bogan, metalheads who read, runes | steff | 2 Comments

    Photo by Alial Hasani , a Jordanian metal blogger and photographer.

    Dear Steff Metal I always wanted to be a writer, but I don’t know where to begin. I’m in my third year of an English major at college and I don’t have anything to show for it except for some better-than-average marks and several short stories the school Lit magazine won’t touch with a ten-foot [...]

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  • War for the Words Shortlist

    September 10th, 2009 | Steff, runes | steff | 2 Comments

    I interrupt the heavy metal and holiday posts for some exciting news. My steampunk novel Thorn has been shortlisted for the SciFiNow / Tor UK War of the Words competition. You can read details about the competition on the SciFiNow website. http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/war-of-the-words-shortlist-announcement/ Yay! I fly out to Turkey tomorrow. That’s a little scary considering all [...]

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