Sword & Sorcery & Romantasy || Beating Hearts and Battle Axes Anthology Interview Part 2

I had the pleasure of interviewing Oliver Brackenbury and Jay Wolf about their upcoming crowdfunding campaign for their anthology: Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes by Brackenbury Books, a six novelette (12k words) length anthology of Sword & Sorcery tales with a romantic core to them.
Part 2 consists of general questions about Sword & Sorcery and Romantasy, as well as some advice for writers!
The Backerkit campaign launches on June 20th and is live until July 20th, check it out now to be notified on launch:
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/...
Watch part 1 here: • Sword & Sorcery & Roma...
Watch my first interview with Oliver Brackenbury: • Talking Sword and Sorc...
Cover art in the thumbnail by M.E. Morgan
00:00 Introduction
01:01 Inspiration for R&R and Romantasy Combo
03:10 Shared Tropes
05:33 Less Compatible Parts
11:37 Overused/Overdone Elements
19:11 How do they most benefit from each other
24:48 Merging worldbuilding
31:35 Does romance affect worldbuilding trends
35:23 Biggest surprises
38:07 Dealing with sensitive topics
42:11 Author platforms
55:17 Crowdfunding for writers
58:55 Biggest advice for writers
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[@SebRomu]

Great Interview. On the topic of Dragon Romance.... I have a interspecies Bromance of sorts in my world. Really just a dragon book nerd and a travelling treahni (human) story collector, whom meet regularly to share stories.

[@madelinejameswrites]

That is amazing! Dragon book nerd sounds like the best character concept haha