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I’ve been trying to get to this for days, and I realized I just need to take a flying dive at it right now rather than wait for the right moment to tackle it. So, here goes.
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The latest issue of Games Quarterly Magazine is available for downloading now. Print copies should show in mailboxes and in better game stores everywhere soon. If you dig through it, you should be able to find an article I wrote on Peter Adkison’s new company (Hidden City Games) and its new game (Clout Fantasy). It’s a collectible game, but instead of playing cards or moving miniatures, you throw poker chips. It should debut at Gen Con Indy (which is run by Peter’s other company, which he started after leaving the first company he founded: Wizards of the Coast).

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I just got my copies of Games Quarterly Magazine #4 in last week. It features a short article I wrote about Patch Products, a family game company here in my hometown of Beloit, Wisconsin. If you can’t find a copy, just be patient. It’s usually available for download within a week or two of hitting store shelves.

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Whew! We’re only five days into 2005, and it already seems like it’s flying by. I managed to complete the outlines for my next four novels (which is staggering to think about), and now I’m waiting to hear back from Wizards about the outline for my next Eberron book so I can get to actually writing it. I’m looking forward to getting back to that world after messing around in Blood Bowl for a while. I love both worlds, but they have very different tones, which helps to keep me fresh. I also managed to knock out a quick article for the next issue of Games Quarterly Magazine about Patch Products, a local (and very successful) family game company here in Beloit, WI.

In the meantime, I’m polishing the first couple chapters of a book about my kids and sending it off to an agent who’s expressed some interest. I also hope to squeeze in a proposal for cool new kind of collectable game to a major publisher this week.

Anyhow, I hope you all had wonderful holidays and that 2005 for you is your best year yet.

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I finished the first draft of my Blood Bowl novel yesterday, just in time to take a few days off for Christmas. Whew!

Next up, I’m revising my outline for the second book in my Eberron trilogy. Then I’ll revise the outlines for my next two books in the Knights of the Silver Dragon series. After that, it’s the outline for the next Blood Bowl book, which is to be a trilogy too. I’ll squeeze my next article for Games Quarterly Magazine in there somewhere as well. Soon after the start of the year, it’s headlong into writing the second Eberron book.

It looks like 2005 is shaping up well. It should see two of the Eberron novels and at least one Blood Bowl novel see print, plus a few other things I’m working on, although it’s too early to say about those yet.

I’d like to thank everyone out there for your support in 2004. It was as crazy a year as ever, but having wonderful friends and family around me every step of the way meant it was a more fun kind of frenzy. I’m looking forward to sharing 2005 with you all too and having more fun than ever.

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Mark Simmons, the man behind the Games Quarterly Catalog and Games Quarterly Magazine, has launched a brilliant new idea: National Games Week. It’s to be held the week of November 21 through 27, right through Thanksgiving. It’s the perfect time to break out a game to play with those relatives you barely ever see. You can find out more at www.nationalgamesweek.net.

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Gen Con was flat-out amazing. I’ve been to the show 23 years in a row now (I started young), and I can’t imagine my summers without it. For me, this is like summer camp wrapped up with Christmas in August, except you get to pick out (and buy) your own gifts.
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Issue #2 of Games Quarterly Magazine ships out today and should be in stores soon. You can also visit the website to download the content of the magazine for free. I wrote an article called “Spiele Uber Alles.” It’s about the two top gaming awards given out in Germany. Did you know that the game that wins the Spiel des Jahres usually sells 100 times as much as it did before? If you’re a fan of quality board games, read the article to learn more.

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I see that the Games Quarterly Magazine website has gone live at www.gamesquarterly.net. Better yet, almost all of the entire first issue is available for download there for free. That includes my article on Fluxx. Stop by soon for lots of great, free reading.

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While wandering through my local comic store yesterday (AK Comics, here in Beloit, Wisconsin), I noticed that Games Quarterly Magazine has hit the stands. If you’re interested in games, you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy. My article in there is probably the least of the many good reasons.

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I just finished my first article for Games Quarterly Magazine, the consumer partner to the indispensible Games Quarterly Catalog, published by Matthews-Simmons Marketing. You can read the press release here. It doesn’t mention me by name, as I hadn’t signed on when the magazine was announced. However, it does mention my good friends Marcelo Figueroa, Ken Hite, Peter Adkison, and John Kovalic. It’s one heck of an all-star team of contributors, and I’m looking forward to seeing the first issue soon.

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