One of the things about my WordPress setup is you don’t need to register to comment. Just click on the word “comments” beneath any entry and go. I’d like to hear more from you readers out there, just so I know I’m not typing for myself. This should make it a lot easier.
My friends at the Black Library just sent me some promotional covers for Blood Bowl, my upcoming novel based on the classic boardgame of gridiron mayhem. Click on the thumbnail for a much larger version.
This is their lead title out of the six books they’re releasing that month, and they’re pushing it hard. It hits the UK in August and the US in September, just in time for football season! They promise ads in White Dwarf, SF Chronicle, Realms of Fantasy, Sci-Fi Magazine, and other genre magazines.
I just got back on Wednesday morning from a quick trip to Los Angeles. I can’t talk about the main reason for the trip quite yet, but it should be good for some mass-market game news sometime in the near future.
While I was there, I had dinner with Fred, Thommy, and Jay from Conan Properties. We chatted about lots of things, including the new series of Conan novels I’m editing for them. The first one (Blood of Wolves by Loren Coleman) is due out in June from Ace Books (a division of Penguin). There’s a new website for the books up right now.
We ate at the most amazing restaurant: Encounter. If you’ve ever been to LAX, you’ve probably seen the landmark crossed, white arches huddled below the air traffic control tower. Like most people, I figured funky building under those arches was an older air traffic tower that had long since been outgrown. Instead, it’s a kitschy restaurant that’s seems like Gene Rodenberry might have designed it in the late ’60s. If you hit the place’s website, it plays the same music you hear in the elevator on your way up to the tower’s restaurant floor. Very cool, and the food rocks too.
My friends at Human Head Studios tell me that the Frankenstein’s Children is on its way to their warehouses from China as I write this. This was the last game I worked on for them, a sequel to last year’s Dracula’s Revenge. Both games plug together for all sorts of horror-gaming mayhem. Download the rules for free to whet your appetite for the terrifying things to come.
I realized I forgot to mention that two books I worked on were nominated for Origins Awards this year. Secret of the Spiritkeeper garnered a nod for Best Fiction, and The Authority RPG got one for Best Roleplaying Game. If you’re a member of the Academy of Gaming Arts and Design (and everyone who does creative work in adventure gaming can now join for free), please consider voting for them. In my ever-biased opinion, I think they’re great stuff.
As some of you know, I led the Origins Awards Task Force last year, which revamped the awards from the ground up. I specifically didn’t volunteer to serve on any of the juries this year, as I wanted to see the system stand on its own. It seems to be doing well so far, as shown by the list of nominees, and I have even higher hopes for next year.
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