This week, I signed on with my first agent: Christi Cardenas of the Lazear Agency. Christi’s going to help me out with an original series that I’ve been pitching around. I can’t say more about it at the moment, but I’m ecstatic to partner up with her on this project. The Lazear Agency is a small group with offices in …
Happy Birthday, Marty!
My eldest son, Marty, turns eight years old today. It seems like he’s been with us forever, and at the same time it just can’t already have been that long. As I told him last night, he’s taught me a great deal about both being a father and being myself, and I’m grateful to have such a wonderful kid in …
Sweet Home, Wisconsin
Fellow Wisconsin son Jim Muraco asked me to put in a plug for his latest film It’s My House. It’s a documentary about strange and cool houses in the Midwest, mostly in Wisconsin and particularly in Milwaukee. Think of it as Cribs: Brewtown. Or not–I haven’t seen the movie yet myself. With luck, it’ll be ready in January, a perfect …
Jordan and the Escapist
The ever-excellent Escapist concentrates on Microsoft in a series of articles this week. Best of all, they interview my friend Jordan Weisman for two of them. The first is about how Jordan sold FASA Interactive to Microsoft and how that worked out. The second paints Jordan’s career with broader strokes, from FASA through to 42 Entertainment. Both are great reads. …
IGDA Again
Back when I worked for Human Head Studios, the company paid for all of the employees to be members of the International Game Developers Association. When I left in 2004, I let my membership lapse, but I recently rejoined again. I just updated my member profile, most of which I lifted generously from my own site, of course.
Gen Con Tales
My pal Robin Laws is collecting Gen Con stories for a book on the con of all cons, to be published by Atlas Games. I’d be sick with jealousy, but this is Robin. Not only is he a friend, but I know he’ll do at least as good a job as I could have hoped to. This way, I can …
Give Thanks
One thing that having kids–especially quadruplets–pounds into my skull is the value of gratitude. There’s so much to be thankful for in my life, no matter what struggles I may have, and the good outshines the bad like the sun outdoes the moon at noon. I’m always at my happiest when I think more on what I have than what …
IGDA Madison
Yesterday, I drove up to Madison for the first big meeting of the new local chapter of the IGDA (International Game Developers Association). (That’s computer games, for those keeping score at home.) Alex Seropian (founder of Bungie Software and Wideload Games) gave a great speech about the new business model he and his partners are using for Wideload, which seems …
A Wild Weekend
I had an amazing weekend, a strange combination of family, politics, football, drama, and even games.
The Silent Enemy in Stores Soon
Late last week, a package showed up from Ace Books with my copies of The Silent Enemy by Richard Knaak. This is the last of the Age of Conan series of novels I edited for Ace and Conan Properties, and it’s a doozy. Richard does a great job with taking the hero from his first two Age of Conan novels …