BNW Back in POD

This is old news, I think, but I forgot to mention it when it happened. My friends at DriveThruRPG.com recently started a print-on-demand (POD) program for certain books they’ve been selling as PDFs. They’ve had the whole of my Brave New World Roleplaying Game line up as PDFs for a good while now (except the screen, which is hard to …

Gen Con Registration Opens May 1

Registration for Gen Con opens this Sunday, May 1, at noon Eastern time. I’ll be a guest of honor there again, helping out with a raft of Industry Insider panels, which have yet to be scheduled. However, I’ve also signed on with the Writers’ Symposium, which has a full slate of events already set up. I’m scheduled for four Writers’ …

Secrets, Like Dragons

My fellow Alliterate and friend Steven Schend is launching a new publishing effort called Vistag Media. To help get the company’s feet under it, he’s posted a new Kickstarter project for Vistag’s first book: Secrets, Like Dragons… It’s an anthology of five novellas written by great lineup of authors – Steven, Ed Greenwood, Jaleigh Johnson, Rosemary Jones, and J.M. Martin …

Milwaukee Appearance this Saturday

My friend Brad Beaulieu is hosting a book launch event in Milwaukee this weekend for his first novel, The Winds of Khalakovo, which is garnering glowing reviews, and he asked Kelly Swails, Bill Shunn, John Helfers, and me to join in the fun. It starts off with a signing and a reading at the Boswell Book Company (map) from 2—3 PM this Saturday, April 23. …

My Next Original Novel: Carpathia

This morning Angry Robot announced my next original novel: Carpathia. They astutely describe it as Titanic meets 30 Days of Night. Those familiar with lore about the Titanic know that the ship that hauled the survivors of that horrible disaster out of the icy waters of the North Atlantic was the Carpathia, another cruise ship crossing the Atlantic in the …

Conduit 2 Out Today

Today marks the release of the latest video game I worked on: Conduit 2 for the Wii. I could say “my” computer game, but it’s not the same as it is with books or even tabletop games. Teams of scores or even hundreds of professionals work on major video games at once, which means they’re never the property of a …

Writing and Taxes

To make a living at anything – even, maybe especially, writing – you need to treat it like what it is: a business. As soon as you start relying on the money coming in from that activity, it leaps out of the realm of being a hobby and transforms into something you ought to take seriously, especially if you think …

Hot & Steamy Coming this Summer

After taking part in the Writers Symposium at Gen Con last year, organizer Jean Rabe asked me to contribute a story to one of her upcoming anthologies: Hot & Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance. She co-edited it with Martin H. Greenberg, an icon in genre anthologies, and I’m pleased to say she bought a story from me for it. This …

Hite on Vegas Knights

At OddCon last weekend, I gave my pal Ken Hite a copy of Vegas Knights. After all, he’s thanked in the acknowledgements as one of my regular compadres in my many wild trips to Vegas, and few people outside the city know it as well as he does. He earned a copy of the book in the best way. Of …

Go Joe! Cobra Wars Out Now

I’d thought that G.I. Joe: Tales from the Cobra Wars was due out next week, but it seems to have slipped out early and is in stores now. Max Brooks (World War Z) and Jeff Conner edited it, and it features novellas from Max,Chuck Dixon, Jon McGoran, Jonathan Maberry, John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow, Duane Swierczynski, Dennis Tafoya, and me. That’s damn fine company to find myself in. …