Writing Great Sword Fights, with Sebastien de Castell

Sebastian de Castell

It’s a welcome return for a previous guest, the brilliant writer Sebastien de Castell. His first published novel was Traitor’s Blade in 2014. Since then he has published the Greatcoats Quartet, the Spellslinger YA fantasy series, The Malevolent Seven and his latest Play of Shadows. He also has eight more books under contract, so there […]

Living the Nobler Dream, with Christian Tobler

Christian Tobler is a chivalric combat instructor and author of many books, including Secrets of German Medieval Swordsmanship, which launched the study of Liechtenauer in the Anglosphere. He also wrote Fighting with German Longsword, In St. George’s Name: an Anthology of Medieval German Fighting Arts, In Service of the Duke, and many more. Not to […]

Duelling and a Day in the Life of Guy Windsor

Welcome to episode 100 of The Sword Guy Podcast! In this special episode, Ariel Anderssen (episode 93) interviews Guy about a whole load of stuff, including how Guy got into swords in the first place, the vision up a Scottish mountain that told him to open his school in Helsinki, injuries from duelling, Guy’s best […]

Acting, Fighting and Training, with Siobhan Richardson

Siobhan Richardson photo © Dahlia Katz Today’s podcast episode is with Siobhan Richardson. You may recognise her from the cover of my latest book: She’s an actress, singer, martial artist, stage combat director, among her many skills. We’ve been friends for quite a while, as you can probably tell from the tone of the interview. She […]