Games Quarterly Magazine is now available in PDF format through DriveThruRPG.com. Right now, you can pick up issue #8 for only $1.99, half off the retail price for the print edition. I’ve written an article for every issue to date, and in #8 I chronicled my meeting with model, actress, and game designer (how often do you hear those labels together?) Daryl Hannah at a New York Toy Show many years ago. And now you can get it cheap, along with all sorts of other gaming goodness.
My article about Daryl Hannah and Hilary Shepard‘s new game LIEbrary showed up in the mail today. It’s in the latest issue (#8) of Games Quarterly Magazine, and it dishes about Hannah’s love for games and dice, along with how she cost me my job and saved my marriage.
I just completed an article for Games Quarterly Magazine about Daryl Hannah and Hilary Shepard’s new board game LIEbrary. (It’s their second published effort, believe it or not.) It tells the true story of how Daryl Hannah cost me my job and saved my marriage. You’ll have to wait until GQM #8 hits stands this spring to find out exactly how.
My copies of Games Quarterly Magazine #7 showed up in the mail the other day. I wrote an article about gaming-related fiction for it, which appears on p. 70. It also features articles from James Ernest, Jeff Tidball, Ken Hite, and Mike Selinker, along with interviews of Kevin Siembieda (of Palladium) and Loren Greenwood (of Wizards of the Coast) and lots of other gaming goodness.
It also focuses on National Games Week, which is coming up soon: November 20–26. If you want to order a promotional package for your NGW event, they just extended the deadline to November 13, so there’s still time if you move fast. As an NGW member, you can get solid discounts on some great games, many in bundles set up just for National Games Week. Membership is free, and it’s a solid group of people working for a good cause: to promote gaming as great entertainment. Check it out soon.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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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