-Steelhearts: An Anthology- signed paperback (original printing)

This product is the signed and hand-numbered, first-run paperback version of Steelhearts: An Anthology, edited by M. B. Heywood with D. L. Chaput and J. C. Chaput.

Only 52 copies were printed in this initial, limited run of a fantasy anthology featuring up-and-coming authors from the Substack-based fantasy writing community. Most copies went to U.S. backers of the anthology crowdfund, contributing authors, and other supporters.

Get your copy while they last! We'll include the bonus "Watchers" sticker that Kickstarter backers received as a stretch goal.

Anthology contents include:

Foreword by J. C. Chaput

"The End of Days" by Redd Oscar (with sketch illustration by Ekaterina Glazkova)

"Terrors From the Red Mountain" by The Man Behind the Screen / D. S. Brandt

"Serpent's Hearth" by Kathrine Elaine

"The Hatchling's Teeth" by Harold Ember

"The Knight of the Golden Armour" by Mercedes de Santiago

Excerpt from "Brotherhood of the Gemstone" by J. C. Chaput

"Watchers: A Dustsong Snippet" by M. B. Heywood

Afterword & Acknowledgments by M. B. Heywood

Available within the United States (free shipping). Please contact mbheywood at vaporousrealms dot com regarding availability and shipping fees outside the United States.

©2025 M. B. Heywood et al. Published by Vaporous Realms Publishing. 186 pages. Paperback. 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. Smooth matte cover.

Wherever darkness encroaches, unexpected heroes rise to meet the danger. The valor of the Steelheartsreverberates across far-flung lands to become enshrined in legend.

 But at what cost?

 The lords of humanity's last refuge plunge into desperate battle against an infinite horde of ravenous orcs.

 Primitive brothers hunt winged fiends through the jungle and confront terror in its hellish lair.

 Love, peril, and prophecy threaten a young woman's life of seclusion, testing her loyalties and virtue as never before.

 A young man braves grief, subterranean horrors, and ancient evils to try to rescue the last of his kin from a terrible foe.

 The fate of a treachery-ridden kingdom falls on a noble country knight and a mysterious old wizard.

 These and the other gripping tales found in this anthology are as varied as their international cast of up-and-coming fantasy authors. Yet every page of Steelhearts will stir the blood in your veins—and may inspire you, too, to take up the swords of courage and truth in the face of evil.

 This collection was curated and co-edited by D. L. and J. C. Chaput, authors of Crown of Blood and other mythic fantasy. The stories were edited by M. B. Heywood, creator of the Vaporous Realms story-world.

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