This morning, Nina Hess, my editor on the Knights of the Silver Dragon line, gave me a call. That should have been my first clue something was wrong. You see, in this age of the internet, I’d yet to speak with Nina even once. If she’d picked up the phone to talk with me, something had to be up. In …
The Art of the Pitch
Over on his blog, Lucien Soulban asks about novel pitches and submissions, “How do you approach submissions and is rejection our constant companion?” Among the other excellent answers, I replied: It’s always a crapshoot. Not only do you have to have a great idea, but it has to be one that catches the editor’s attention, hasn’t been done before (or …
Celebrity Gamers
I’m amassing a list of celebrity gamers–that is, famous people who play tabletop games. Games Quarterly Magazine has asked me to interview such personages for their pages, and I’d like to know just how large my potential pool of interview targets happens to be. See after the break for a full list of what I’ve come up with so far. …
June’s Page XX
Pelgrane Press just posted its latest Page XX. This free collection of articles covers such topics as Robin Laws‘s “Point of Distinction,” “A Cold Day in Hell: A Look at eBooks in the RPG Industry,” and “Is the RPG Industry Screwed?” All recommended reading.