With just nine days left to grab the Bundle of Holding, another bonus book has been added to the package. Bundle founder Allen Varney steps up with Stay Alert, the first of his novels based upon the classic RPG Paranoia, the hilarious roleplaying game of dystopian treachery. This brings the grand total of the number of books in the full bundle to …
Bundle of Holding Got Bigger
The Bundle of Holding is only a few days old, but it’s already doing pretty well. Despite a few Day-One glitches, it brought in a lot of buyers and made a good chunk of change for both Child’s Play and Reading Is Fundamental so far. One of the biggest surprises is how generous the donors have been. We started out …
A Split Worlds Story from Emma Newman
Today, in a very special blog post… I’m going to do something I’ve never done on this blog before: post someone else’s fiction. Hell, I don’t even post my own fiction up here that much. I usually wrap it up in an ebook and either sell it or give it away in that format instead. To be honest, it never …
There’s a Bundle on the Horizon
This Wednesday, keep your eyes peeled for the Bundle of Holding, a bundle of fiction ebooks written by tabletop game designers (like me). It’s going to make for a fantastic deal, and it’ll include one of my novels in the pack. Tabletop game designers spend their days building worlds and adventures for other people to play in. They come up …
Gambling with Alas Vegas
My pal James Wallis is a tabletop gaming legend. Among many other things, he co-created the wonderful Once Upon a Time card game; he wrote and published one of the first story-driven roleplaying games, The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen; and he launched the much-loved Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming. He’s been off doing other things for a while, but he’s …
ENies Nominations Are Out
The nominations for the ENnies – the fan-based tabletop RPG awards from ENWorld.org that are handed out at Gen Con – were announced earlier today. The list is long and filled with great games and related things. Among them, two things I worked on that came out last year earned a few nods. Tales of the Far West – a short story …
More Kickstarter Stuff
Two more cool projects to add to the Kickstarter pile from earlier today. My fellow Alliterate Steve Sullivan just launched a drive for his Tournament of Death 1 & 2 writing stunt. He’s setting up a live-writing event that pits fantasy characters against each other to coincide with the Olympics. He pulled it off in 2008, and he’s reprising it …
Kickstarter Recommendations
I’m just back from a week’s vacation up near Watersmeet, Michigan, and I’m plowing through my in-box to catch up with everything that’s been happening while I’ve been gone. Among those things are a number of Kickstarters I’d like to recommend. First off, my pals Robin Laws and Simon Rogers over at Stone Skin Press have launched a drive for …
Interview with Chuck Wendig
Back when I ran my first Kickstarter, Chuck Wendig was kind enough to interview me for his blog. Since he’s running his own Kickstarter now – and I’m running another one myself – I figured it was time to return the favor. Much like myself, Chuck started out working in the tabletop gaming industry – he was a developer for …
Ann and Project 16:49
I’m proud to announce that today my wife Ann is in Madison, Wisconsin, to help accept the state superintendent’s Friend of Education award on behalf of Project 16:49. Ann works as the homeless student liaison for the School District of Janesville, and she and Robin Stuht – her counterpart in Beloit – have been working tirelessly over the past couple …