The Alliterates website has been down for a couple weeks for domain-related woes, but it should be restored soon. In the meantime, the Alliterates have started a group blog you can find right here. Click over to learn all about the ongoings of our writers’ club.
I finally bought my plane ticket for Comic-Con International. I arrive in San Diego Friday afternoon and leave Sunday night, so it’s bound to be an action-packed trip. I only have two official duties at the show. From the programming material sent to me, they are:
Fantastic Fiction for All Ages: The Young Adult Market: Looking for ideas for summer reading for yourself or your preteens or teens? Something beyond J. K. Rowling, Eoin Colfer, and Lemony Snicket? Then this is the panel for you, as participants explore some of the best fantastic fiction out there, regardless of its target market. Panelists include Timothy Zahn (Star Wars: Survivor’s Quest), Jeff Mariotte (Witch Season: Summer), Emily Drake (Magickers, The Dragon Guard), Sherwood Smith (Wren to the Rescue), and Matt Forbeck (Secret of the Spiritkeeper). Moderator Maryelizabeth Hart of Mysterious Galaxy denies all rumors of special treatment for spouse and panelist Jeff Mariotte. Room 3. Sunday, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM.
From there, the panelists head over to an autographing session in Room AA4, Sunday, 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM.
If you’ll be there, stop by and say hi. Otherwise, I should be hanging around the Green Ronin booth, showing off copies of Dracula’s Revenge.
Ken Cliffe at White Wolf asked me to write an adventure for Ghost Stories, an anthology of short adventures for the upcoming World of Darkness roleplaying game, the core rulebook for their reboot of their original games, Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, and so on. I jumped all over it.
Justin Achilli played mule for Ken and handed me a CD with a PDF of the new rulebook on it while we were at Origins. I read it over last weekend, and it’s good. It’s mathematically more rigorous than the original, and it gracefully streamlines a game system that had grown ornate with rules over the past decade.
My copy of the Eberron Campaign Setting arrived in the mail the other day. Over the months I’ve been working on Marked for Death, the first in my trilogy of Eberron novels, Wizards has sent me several copies of this book in various stages of development. The first was a 12-page brief.
The final book looks great. There’s a lot here to love if you play Dungeons & Dragons, whether you plan to run an Eberron campaign or not. It’s D&D flavored with pulpy goodness, which is right up my alley. I can only hope that many others out there share my tastes for this kind of adventure.
I also got a copy of Shadows of the Last War, the first Eberron adventure. Keith Baker, the brain behind Eberron wrote it, along with Death at Whitehearth, a short story included in a separate pamphlet. I haven’t cracked these yet, but I’m looking forward to it.
In the meantime, I wrote two pieces for an upcoming issue of Dragon Magazine. The first is a short story that serves as a prequel to Marked for Death. The second is for the “Novel Approach” column, in which I provide some game-oriented details about Marked for Death, including rules for a smaller airship (the aircutter) and for living fireballs.
The Origins Awards Task Force has sucked up much of my past week. Many people have lots of great ideas for the Origins Awards, and sorting through them is a Herculean task. Plus, there are some political landmines strewn about the place in the wake of the election of a nearly all-new GAMA board of directors at Origins last month, and pirouetting through them makes it that much more challenging. Despite this, I have high hopes we’ll be able to come up with something good in the end.
If you’d like to toss your hat into the middle of the fracas, click here to join the Yahoo! group I set up for it. Traffic can be high at times. You’ve been warned.
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