Marked for Death on Press

My illustrious editor Mark Sehestedt tells me that Marked for Death (the first in my Eberron trilogy, The Lost Mark) is at the printer right now. The book is slated for a March release, which suddenly seems not all that far away. This is my first full-length mass-market novel, so you can imagine how excited I am about it. You …

Eisner Dies

Will Eisner, the comic book and graphic novel legend, died on Monday. I only met him once, at a book signing at an American Book Expo where he graciously personalized a copy of Dropsie Avenue for me, but I miss him. He was a master of the sequential art form and did more to bring it respectability and literary weight …

Worlds of D&D

I’ve been spending some time on a new forum set up at WorldsofDnD.com. There’s not too much traffic yet, but a good number of Wizards novelists stop by to post. If you’re interested in discussing Dungeons & Dragons novels with other fans and asking questions of some of your favorite authors, stop by to give it a look.

Currency Matters

My friends at Guardians of Order (publishers of The Authority RPG, of which I wrote the player’s chapter for them) just announced that they had a rotten 2004, mostly due to the plummeting value of the American dollar versus their Canadian version. Because of this, they’re asking people for help by purchasing some of their excellent games now. If you …

Dead Wicked Games

My good friends at the Wicked Dead Brewing Company (John Wick, Jared Sorenson, and Annie Rush) recently gave me a load of their games, and they’re all great. My favorites are InSpectres (a Ghostbusters-style RPG with some really cool mechanics), Necromonopoly (a Lovecraftian boardgame in which the last sane player wins), and Run Robot Red (a dystopian RPG in which …

New Alliterates Site

The new website is up for the Alliterates, the group of friends and published writers to which I proudly belong. Lester Smith, Rob King, and Steve Sullivan did a bang-up job with the thing, so be sure to stop by and check it out. The “history of the Alliterates” section is drop-dead hilarious. The front page of the site offers …

Happy New Year!

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 …