In a fitting way to start the new year, I’m on to my next novel, Vegas Knights. Poking around, I noticed that Angry Robot has put out a bit of a teaser for it. It reads: The two magicians came to take Vegas. Now Vegas is taking them back. When two college freshman decide to use Spring Break to wage …
Free Redhurst Bits
Way back in 2003, I wrote a d20 system book called Redhurst Academy of Magic for Human Head Studios. The book is out of print, but I still get notes from people searching for bits of it every now and then. I can’t post a PDF of the book, but I do have a number of freebies that used to …
Finding an Agent
Although I’ve sold 15 novels, several nonfiction books, and countless games, I haven’t worked with an agent for any of those. I’ve considered it a lot over the years–at least for my fiction–but I usually figure that my experience in publishing and negotiating means I don’t especially need one, so I’ve managed to avoid it. (I did sign Christi Cardenas …
Bunch of Characters
My latest column for The Escapist–“A Bunch of Characters”–just went up this morning. In this installment I discuss the process of helping Marty and his friends create their first-ever characters for our new Dungeons & Dragons campaign. I didn’t find this as easy as I thought it should be, but in the end I think Wizards got it right. Read …
Happy Holidays and Free D&D
As a pick-your-holiday gift, I present to you “Inn Peril” (1.5 MB PDF), a Dungeons & Dragons 4E adventure designed for use with five 1st-level adventurers. This originally appeared in issue #114 of Game Trade Magazine this past summer, and a PDF of it was posted on the magazine’s website for free. The magazine has since retired the adventure, but I’m giving it a …
Amortals Away!
It’s been a long time coming–longer than I thought it would be–but I finally finished Amortals and shipped it off to the fine folks at Angry Robot. It seems like this fall has been a rigorous series of disruptions designed to throw me off track, but the book is done and in the hands of Marc Gascoigne and Lee Harris, …
Pledges for Tu Publishing
Stacy Whitman–formerly one of the editors at Mirrorstone, the YA fiction imprint at Wizards of the Coast–is planning to start Tu Publishing to bring multicultural science-fiction and fantasy stories to kids of all ages. To launch this new effort, she needs some seed money, so she’s put up a page on Kickstarter.com. So far, the effort is about 63% of …
Those who say a computer game …
Those who say a computer game can’t make you cry haven’t seen a kid lose a puffle in Club Penguin.
Holiday Music in Beloit
We’re about to get slammed with snow here in Beloit, so I spent some time this morning putting up the Christmas lights, trading out bicycles for sleds, and making sure the snowthrower is in working order. I also ordered tickets for the Beloit Janesville Symphony Orchestra‘s “Home for the Holidays Family Spectacular.” The concert is held December 20 at 2 …