Name Martin Stephenson | ||
Martin Edward Stephenson (born December 18, 1960) is an American fiction writer, who works in the dark fantasy adventure genre known as Sword and sorcery.
His short stories have seen publication in both the small press and online. His growing list of published works includes Rite of Privacy (Stygian Vortex Publications' Shadow Sword Magazine, issue #12), Storm in the Jewel and Temple of the Mandricanth (ElectronicTales.com) both of which featured the adventures of his creations, the barbarian Rozak and his somewhat reluctant partner, the swordswoman, Tarajel. Both Storm in the Jewel and Temple of the Mandricanth were originally featured at PulpandDagger.com in an experimental present-tense form. The popularity of both stories moved the author to re-write them as third person narratives for re-publication at Electronic Tales. The Pulp homage Immortals of the Cannibal Coast was co-written with author Joel Jenkins (Dire Planet and Through the Groaning Earth: A Tale of the City of Bathos) featuring the swordswoman Tarajel in her own stand-alone adventure. The fast paced swashbuckler was created round-robin, with Jenkins starting, and Stephenson writing the even numbered chapters. Immortals... saw print in owner/editor G. W. Thomas's Dark Worlds Magazine, issue #3. The Sea Demon of Calia featuring the author's dark anti-hero, Urnos the Slayer, is set for publication in Dark Worlds Magazine, issue #6, in the Fall of 2010. Another Urnos tale entitled Wolves in the Darkness is completed, along with several other, as yet unpublished, recently completed stories.
The future should see publication of an anthology featuring much of the above work, and the start of a planned Steampunk/Sword and Planet adventure series and/or novel.
He currently resides in Murrieta, California.