I don't have overmuch to say, but wanted to add my voice to the accolades--and sadness at the passing--of Howard Andrew Jones.
I wasn't close to Howard, so another reason I won't say much. Others have it covered.
We knew each other online. We never met in person, which is a shame. I met him through the old Conan dot com forums and/or the Sword & Sorcery dot org website. Could have been either. I corresponded with him, volunteering to put a couple of the online FLASHING SWORDS ezine issues into mobile reader format. In thanks, he sent me two of the Harold Lamb volumes he had edited.
After S-&-S.org fell away, we connected on Facebook but didn't have much interaction. I kept tabs on his progressing writing career. Like everyone else, I was thrilled for him that he finally landed a sword-&-sorcery series with Baen, with his Chronicles of Hanuvar.
I'd not really had interest in getting back into any particular fan groups around heroic fantasy again. About a year and a half ago, a friend invited me to a Discord server in that area. Howard was the first to spot that I had signed on, and he greeted me with a warm welcome.
That's the kind of person he was.
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