According to Amazon.com, the book I’m writing right now—The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating Dungeons & Dragons Characters
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Mar 102007
Pulled an all-nighter on Thursday night, my first this year. I was asked to take part in our school district’s strategic planning session retreat, a two-day affair. Unfortunately, I had a deadline for a draft of a computer game script on Friday morning, so instead of going to bed between the two days of the retreat, I planted myself in front of my computer and wrote until I had to get the kids up to get them ready for school.
Amazingly, I discovered that one of the best ways to stay alert was to take regular breaks for 10-minute sessions on the Wii. There’s something about a quick boxing match on that machine that really wakes you up and gets you going again.
Mar 102007
I’d heard that my Marvel Heroes Battle Dice game was doing well in Europe, but I didn’t know for sure what that meant. Malakai at PopDice.com dropped me a recent comment, though, that pointed out that the game is now selling in France. Apparently, there are some extra figures in the European set, which seem to be from Series 2, which was unreleased in North America.
I’m glad to see the game having a second life. Here’s hoping it keeps rolling!
Mar 082007
The IAMTW has named the nominees for its inaugural set of Scribe Awards. See the full list after the cut. Sharp-eyed readers may notice that my Prophecy of the Dragon snagged an award for Best Young Adult Novel.
Also, Steve Sullivan, one of my fellow Alliterates, has a novel up for the same award. My pal Jeff Mariotte has novels up for two awards: Best Speculative Fiction Original Novel and Best General Fiction Original Novel. Several of my fellow Black Library authors—Steven Savile, Nathan Long, James Swallow, and Christa Faust—picked up nods too, as did my friend Alice Henderson.
Congratulations to all the nominees! Here’s to learning about the winners at this year’s Comic-Con.
Mar 062007
Via Publishers Lunch:
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman‘s DRAGONSHIPS series, drawn amongst a back drop of Viking-like warriors, three opposing groups of Gods, ships powered by dragons and the ultimate quest for salvation and survival, to Tom Doherty at Tor, with Brian Thompson editing, at auction, by Christi Cardenas of The Lazear Agency (for Weis) and Matt Bialer at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates (world English).
Congratulations to both Margaret and Tracy, and to my agent Christi Cardenas, on this huge sale! (I’m sure Matt Bialer’s a heck of a guy too. I’ve just never met him.)
Mar 062007
Someone at KidScreen Magazine finally let spill a wee bit of information about a project I’ve been working on for Playmates Toys. It’s buried in an article about hitting the tween audience with web/toy hybrids. For your convenience, the pertinent text is behind the cut.
And, yeah, that’s all I can say about it—for now.
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Mar 062007
Sadly, I won’t be able to make it to Games Expo 2007, much as I wanted to. A rash of illness running through the house has put me behind on my deadlines, so it’s staying home, shackled to my computer instead. (Thankfully, it’s a laptop.)
It kills me not to be able to join my friends behind Games Quarterly for their inaugural show, but deadlines come first. I still plan to make it to Adepticon at the end of the month and GTS in April though. I hope to see some of you there!
Mar 012007
Barak Blackburn pointed out a report of a children’s book club in his local paper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette. In it, there’s a picture of a boy talking about a book he’s just read, my Secret of the Spiritkeeper. Barak sent me a link to the article, but it only lasted for a hour before expiring. Otherwise, you would need to pony up for a subscription to see it.
Thanks for the report, Barak!
Mar 012007
It seems I’m always shopping for a great deal on a new toy, and the internet is the high-powered rifle I use to hunt the big game, like the Wii I picked up last week. One of the coolest sites for picking up great deals is Woot.com. Their gimmick is they only sell one thing each day, at a rock-bottom price, until their stock is gone—unless it’s a Woot-Off, a rare event in which they sell items one after the other, around the clock.
If that sounds like fun, check out Tanga.com. This runs much like Woot, but feature not only tech gadgets but tabletop games. To top that off, they run puzzles every day, via which you can earn Tanga points to spend on the site in other ways. Apparently Scott Alden of BoardGameGeek.com and Jeremy Young and Matt Molen of Überplay are behind Tanga, so you know it has some serious gamer cred. If you’re a gamer who loves good deals, be sure to check it out.
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