CIG D&D Release Date

According to Amazon.com, the book I’m writing right now–The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating Dungeons & Dragons Characters–should hit shelves on December 4. I’m having more fun writing this book than I might have guessed. I have a lot of love for D&D, and it’s great to have a chance to examine the most basic part of the game in …

All Night Long

Pulled an all-nighter on Thursday night, my first this year. I was asked to take part in our school district’s strategic planning session retreat, a two-day affair. Unfortunately, I had a deadline for a draft of a computer game script on Friday morning, so instead of going to bed between the two days of the retreat, I planted myself in …

Battle Dice Big in Europe

I’d heard that my Marvel Heroes Battle Dice game was doing well in Europe, but I didn’t know for sure what that meant. Malakai at PopDice.com dropped me a recent comment, though, that pointed out that the game is now selling in France. Apparently, there are some extra figures in the European set, which seem to be from Series 2, …

Scribe Awards Nominees Named

The IAMTW has named the nominees for its inaugural set of Scribe Awards. See the full list after the cut. Sharp-eyed readers may notice that my Prophecy of the Dragon snagged an award for Best Young Adult Novel. Also, Steve Sullivan, one of my fellow Alliterates, has a novel up for the same award. My pal Jeff Mariotte has novels …

Dragonships, Ahoy!

Via Publishers Lunch: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman‘s DRAGONSHIPS series, drawn amongst a back drop of Viking-like warriors, three opposing groups of Gods, ships powered by dragons and the ultimate quest for salvation and survival, to Tom Doherty at Tor, with Brian Thompson editing, at auction, by Christi Cardenas of The Lazear Agency (for Weis) and Matt Bialer at Sanford …

A Not-So-Secret Project

Someone at KidScreen Magazine finally let spill a wee bit of information about a project I’ve been working on for Playmates Toys. It’s buried in an article about hitting the tween audience with web/toy hybrids. For your convenience, the pertinent text is behind the cut. And, yeah, that’s all I can say about it–for now.

No Games Expo for Me

Sadly, I won’t be able to make it to Games Expo 2007, much as I wanted to. A rash of illness running through the house has put me behind on my deadlines, so it’s staying home, shackled to my computer instead. (Thankfully, it’s a laptop.) It kills me not to be able to join my friends behind Games Quarterly for …

Spiritkeeper Book Club

Barak Blackburn pointed out a report of a children’s book club in his local paper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette. In it, there’s a picture of a boy talking about a book he’s just read, my Secret of the Spiritkeeper. Barak sent me a link to the article, but it only lasted for a hour before expiring. Otherwise, you would need …

Care to Tanga?

It seems I’m always shopping for a great deal on a new toy, and the internet is the high-powered rifle I use to hunt the big game, like the Wii I picked up last week. One of the coolest sites for picking up great deals is Woot.com. Their gimmick is they only sell one thing each day, at a rock-bottom …