Chris’ #Swashtober and other sketches last month inspired me to buy a bunch of books/-first up was de Castell’s TRAITOR’S BLADE which I absolutely tore through and immediately bought the sequel.

(If you’re an eBook person, they’re cheap, too—$2.99 for the first and $4.99 for the other three)

#Swashtober 4: Lagardère!

Hero of Paul Féval sr's revenge novel Le Bossu (the Hunchback). When a Duke and his family are murdered by the Duke's keen-to-inherit scumbag cousin, young swordsman Lagardère spirits the Duke's infant daughter to safety, vowing to eventually avenge his new dead pal

#Swashtober 2: Agnes de Chastillon, aka Dark Agnes, from a pair of stories by Conan author Robert E. Howard. Agnes is a teen forced into marriage who kills the groom, flees, and becomes a swordist and intriguer.

#DarkAgnes #RobertEHoward #Swashbuckler #Swashbucklers #SwordArt #swords