For the week of Comic-Con (that’s this week, folks!), Simon & Shuster has put the ebook edition of Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon on sale for only $3.99. That’s 50% off, until July 15. This is the first-ever novel based on the Guild Wars game, and I wrote it along with my pal Jeff Grubb, whose day job is to serve as …
Review Roundup
A few reviews of my work – both past and future – have come in from different quarters over the past week. Here’s a quick roundup. Over at BlogCritics, Greg Barbrick raves over Book of Extreme Facts. He bought it as a Christmas gift for his son but couldn’t resist reading it himself. I had a wonderful time doing the research …
Ghosts in Italy
I just found out yesterday that Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon was translated into Italian and released into the wild as I Fantasmi di Ascalon sometime last year. For me, that’s particularly cool because my sister Jody spent a dozen or so years in Italy and married a wonderful Italian man who’s now the father of their two beautiful sons. …
Ghosts of Ascalon Nominated for a Scribe Award!
Ghosts of Ascalon, the Guild Wars book I wrote with Jeff Grubb, just picked up a nomination for the Scribe Award for Best Speculative Original. The International Media Tie-In Writers (IAMTW) gives out the Scribe Awards at Comic-Con every year to the best in tie-in novels of the past year. In the past, the judges have nominated my Mutant Chronicles …
Worldbuilders 2010
Pat Rothfuss, author of the excellent The Name of the Wind, has set up Worldbuilders – his annual fundraising drive for Heifer International – once again. As an incentive for fans of genre fiction, Pat and dozens of other authors have donated all sorts of prizes that you can win for taking part in the drive. Every $10 you chip …
Blogging for Tor.com
Just a few minutes ago, my first post for Tor.com went live. It’s called “Dungeons & Dragons Returns to Comics,” and it talks a bit about the history of D&D and its publishers with comics. Then it riffs into a quick rave about the new D&D comic from IDW, written by my friend John Rogers, who also runs the TV …
Die Geister von Ascalon, Super-Sized!
Last week, Ed Schlesinger, my editor at Simon & Shuster, sent over a copy of Guild Wars: Die Geister von Ascalon, the German edition of Ghosts of Ascalon. It looks amazing. I don’t know if all German novels are printed this way, but Marco Lupoi and his team at Panini Books knocked this one out of the park. As you …
Die Geister von Ascalon Available Now
The German version of Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon – Guild Wars: Die Geister von Ascalon – officially hit stores yesterday in Germany. It’s published by Panini, a publisher I know best from its long relationship with Marvel Comics in Italy and through my friend Marco Lupoi. If you speak German or can fake it well enough, you can download and …
Ghosts of Ascalon Uber Alles
If you speak German, be sure to look out for Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon – a.k.a Die Geister von Ascalon – in deutsch next week. It hits stores in Germany on August 24. If you can’t wait that long, head on over to GamesCom this weekend, at which my co-author Jeff Grubb will be reprising his Comic-Con role as …
“Roll Dice” Prizes
My friend John McLintock is running a series of contests to celebrate the 5th anniversary of his gaming blog “Roll Dice and Kick Ass!” As part of this, I’m donating a signed copy of Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon. You can also win games and books from other authors and designers like Bill King, Academy Games, Q-Workshop, Jim Swallow, and …