Sean CW Korsgaard

Award-winning freelance reporter, author, US Army veteran and constant adventurer, seeking great stories and an audience to hear them.

[Sean CW Korsgaard @SCWKorsgaard]

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[Sean CW Korsgaard @SCWKorsgaard]

@AlysssaHazel @J0hnADouglas Not only was it successful, the DC line of various Dungeons & Dragons comics was the most popular line the company had for most of the 80s not to have Batman or Superman in it. More than Wonder Woman or Justice League.

Then TSR launched a comic company and DC killed the line.

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@Steve_Sailer @AmandaMilius I didn't think my week would get worse than finding out there's an unproduced second autobiography/screenplay by Audie Murphy that's been sitting untouched in a vault at Universal for 60 years.

Shows I can be wrong.

[Sean CW Korsgaard @SCWKorsgaard]

Remember: The only reason we didn't get a multi-film Master and Commander movie franchise is because the studio screwed it with the release date.

It opened against Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. One of the best movies of the millennium sent to die against another.

[Rodger @TheRodged]

Master and Commander only got greenlit because one of the studio heads had a particular obsession with the books it was based on, and he basically ignored everyone saying it wouldn't be profitable and forced his passion project into reality

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An old joke...

How does the Walt Disney Company make a brand worth millions?

They buy a brand worth billions.

[Variety @Variety]

“Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu” earned just $6.5 million on its second Friday in North American cinemas, an 70% drop from its opening day.

While initial projections saw the Lucasfilm western grossing $40 million by Sunday, that number now looks closer to $25 million, according to rival estimates. That figure would push the film’s domestic total to $136 million through two weekends. https://t.co/JQ1CbNAO60

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@DonShift3 North & South is awesome.

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@BrainLeakage03 @BattlebornMag @HabitualLevity

[BattlebornMag @BattlebornMag]

We've been keeping the artwork for Battleborn pretty close to vest - the better to melt your faces with when you pick up the first few issues - but we figure the sword-and-sorcery faithful deserve a glimmer of the glory that awaits in the first couple issues of BATTLEBORN!

[Sean CW Korsgaard @SCWKorsgaard]

@crusade_enjoyer Celebrate it?

They've spent 20 years trying to tear down 300 and the people who loved the movie, including in its own sequel.

That they've failed largely has to do with the same reasons we've been telling the story of Thermopylae for almost 3,000 years.

[BattlebornMag @BattlebornMag]

Preorders for Battleborn Magazine Issue 1 digital edition are live! Physicals will follow soon after - as will pre-orders for Issue 2! The hour of face-melting, fist-pumping sword-and-sorcery is at hand, brothers!
https://t.co/ESg5aHdvSx

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@Uc_heyy02 They were "inspired" ie ripped off almost entirely, of the Melniboneans of Michael Moorcock's work.

Several Targs are barely hidden expys of Elric.

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@RazorFist @J0hnADouglas It is for Romantasy.

If they were honest, those books would have covers that would make Harlequin romance blush, and the readers might feel a twinge of shame reading fairy tale p***.

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@AlysssaHazel @physicsgeek @The_Lord_Otter Have fun!

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@KingLaserbeam @RazorFist He's literally there labeled as "Dad Elric"

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@nickitruesdell A noble goal - its horrifying how many old books are not preserved even as ebooks, much less in affordable physical copies.

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Dad books aren't dying.

They're being murdered.

And too often, the people whose entire industry that literally cannot afford to lose over half the market are the ones celebrating its death, if not aiding it.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

"Dad books" — which this article, and some publishing insiders, use to describe "serious nonfiction" books across biography, current affairs and business and economics — are reportedly in a free fall, with sales declining every year for the last few years

“The trend couldn’t be clearer,” said Jonathan Karp, the former chief executive of Simon & Schuster and publisher of the new Simon Six imprint.

“When we have internal meetings to talk about this problem, it always comes around to podcasts,” said Jonathan Burnham, president and publisher of the Harper Group at HarperCollins Publishers.

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All of Matt Dinniman's events at Gencon sold out in under 10 minutes.

However big you think Dungeon Crawler Carl is, it's probably bigger than that.

Also, feeling pretty good my marketing course has already sold more in an hour than the same lecture sold last year. Leveling up!

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@RealUCBfosho I'm mostly curious because Murphy's family is famously reclusive... this would be the literal ONLY thing I've ever heard about his grandkids, and I've done multiple articles and tons of research about the man.

They mean private when they say it.

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@AlysssaHazel And as one of those editors?

You and the authors do the hard part getting a manuscript ready for that final editorial step.

It's an editor's job to polish that gem and make it shine.