According to ICv2.com, Tom (The Punisher) Jane has just been cast in the lead role (Mitch Hunter, I presume) for the upcoming Mutant Chronicles movie. The Mutant Chronicles was a roleplaying game I worked on in the early and mid ’90s for Target Games, then the largest game publisher in Sweden. The game’s been out of print for years, but …
HSD in GTM
The November 2005 issue of Game Trade Magazine has a High Stakes Drifter dude card bagged with it: Jesse Woodson James. While there’s nothing else about the game in the issue, the catalog portion shows details for my upcoming novels Dead Ball and The Road to Death, both of which arrive in stores in January. Only 10 more days until …
Games Quarterly Magazine #7 and National Games Week
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 …
WFC Highlights
A few days after the World Fantasy Convention, now, some things still stick in my head enough for me to have to share them. Lucien Soulban, being the great Canadian he is, brought two spirits made from maple syrup: a cream liqueur and a whisky. Both were delicious and would either make great toppings for an ice cream drink or …
World Fantasy Con Report
I had a great time at the World Fantasy Convention held in Madison, Wisconsin, this weekend. Since it was local, I only showed up on Friday and Saturday. I wandered around the dealer’s hall and the art exhibit for a bit, but my razor-keen writer’s senses quickly told me that the best places to be were either the nightly parties …
Free Venom Chapter
The first chapter of Venom of Luxur is up on the Conan website for your enjoyment. This is the third in Steve York’s Age of Conan trilogy set in the mysterious land of Stygia (which I edited for CPI), and it wraps up with a real bang.
High Stakes Drifter Promo Card
I got my copy of InQuest Gamer yesterday, and it included a promo card for High Stakes Drifter: none other than George Armstrong Custer. If you’re interested in High Stakes Drifter promos, hunt this down. Custer is one valuable dude. (Appropriately, though, he has only average Smarts and poor Luck.)
Prophecy of the Dragons Announced
Random House has posted the title of my next novel in the Knights of the Silver Dragon series: Prophecy of the Dragons. This is the 13th book in the young adult series I created for Wizards of the Coast, starting with Secret of the Spiritkeeper. According to Random House, it will be on shelves on June 13, 2006, nearly two …
More High Stakes Drifter Goodness
It seems that the people at WizKids have taken advantage of the slight delay in releasing High Stakes Drifter to post one bonus preview of the game. Stop by and see what “Cavalry Support” can do for your deck. This is just after Gen Con So Cal, but I suspect if you stop by the WizKids booth during the show, …
Grand Marshals Times Five
Here in Beloit, WI, our Downtown Business Association sponsors a lighted holiday parade every year on the Friday night after Thanksgiving. This year, the theme is “Through the Eyes of a Child.” As such, they asked if our kids would be willing to lead the parade, since we seem to have a lot of children with eyes to see through …