Meet Jason
Charles Gramlich ~ 5/31/25
@ The Swords & Planet League
Jason M. Waltz (1970 - ) wears many hats in the writing biz. Over the course of 20 years in the small press world, he’s been an editor, publisher, anthologist, podcaster, short story writer, novelist and writing teacher. I’ve worked with him on projects a few times and have always found him to be a professional through and through.
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Desiree ~ 2/2/25
@ Crimson Quill Quarterly
For our first Author Interview of Volume 5, we caught up with Jason M Waltz, whose story ‘Trades’ kicks off the January 2025 issue with an epic bang!
Story overview: After surviving a perilous journey to obtain a mystical artifact, Coughran sets out to trade it to the enigmatic Rat King. What he hopes to receive in exchange is aid in obtaining what is rightfully his, as well as the person the formidable warrior has spent years searching for.
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Editor ~ 10/31/22
@ Hill Country Explore
Jason M Waltz grew up reading about heroes who saved the day, found his way into a few careers that put him side by side with heroes, and is the author and publisher of heroes today. Jason wrote his first story, “The March of the Vegetables,” around 8 or 9 years of age and hasn’t stopped (the Kingdom of Fruit defeated the attacking Army of Vegetables).
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S.E. Lindberg ~ 5/29/25
@ Black Gate
Jason M. Waltz has published 16 Books under Rogue Blades Entertainment (RBE), another 3 under Rogue Blades Foundation (RBF), having lured in authors Such as Brandon Sanderson, Orson Scott Card, C.L. Werner, Glen Cook, Steven Erikson, Ian C. Esslemont, William King, Andy Offutt, and spurred the writing careers of dozens. Not all are Sword and Sorcery (S&S), with weird western and pirate anthologies appearing, but most are. Two of my favorite introductions to anthologies cap the ends of the RBE series: Return of the Sword (2008) and Neither Beg Nor Yield (2024 BG reviewed by Vredenburgh and Mele), the latter JMW refers to as his Swan Song marking a shift toward focusing on his own writing. Coincident with that, he has recently sunsetted the related RBF. We’ll discuss some of his works to date, but note that he has three stories seeing publication in July 2025!
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Deuce Richardson ~ 2/20/24
@ DMR Books
Where to pick up?
I wrote some stuff as a kid. The first story I ever told completely and handwrote out was “The March of the Vegetables,” wherein the monarch of the Vegetable Kingdom decided he wanted more and took his troops into the realm of the Fruits. The story’s around here somewhere, but I’d honestly have to dig it out and reread it to learn who won. I know it was an all-out war though, one army against another, for the fate of the known world. So my first story was an epic fantasy.
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