The next meeting of the Madison chapter of the IDGA is slated for September 30. Check the site for all the details. I plan to be there, and I hope to see any local game developers there too.
RIP Brian Thomsen
I received a couple notices this evening that Brian Thomsen passed away of a heart attack on Saturday. I knew Brian from his days as the head of the fiction division at TSR, and although I never had the pleasure of working with him, many of my friends did. I just saw Brian at this past Gen Con, only a …
Pitching and Storytellers
My free monthly essay on writing just went up on Storytellers Unplugged today. This time around, I discuss the cyclical nature of freelancing and the “Season of the Pitch.”
GAMA’s Top Job Open
My friend Anthony Gallela recently announced that he is stepping down as the executive director of GAMA to join Bucephalus Games as its full time VP of Sales and Marketing. It looks like company president Dan Tibble‘s new venture is taking off, so it’s time for Anthony to jump on that rocket for the ride and hold on with both …
Multiple Causes
That’s our kids on the first day of school, just a couple weeks back. The one on the right is in fourth grade, while the four on the left just entered first. When we first found out Ann was pregnant with quadruplets, we took the news about as well as you could expect. In other words, we were terrified. Soon …
The Toy & Game Inventor Awards
The fine people at the Chicago Toy and Game Fair (Chi-TAG) and the Toy and Game Inventors Expo (TAGIE) just launched a new awards program aimed at honoring not toys and games but the people behind them: the TAGIE Awards. On November 21, at a gala dinner at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, they plan to hand out …
Cinerati Opining
Christian Lindke of Cinerati asked me and a few other hardy souls,“How do you think media tie-in novels affect the genre of sf/f?” Stop on by to see what succinct things Aaron Rosenberg, Susan Palwick, and I had to say.
Mutants in the House!
UPS just showed up with a big box o’ books from Random House. I sliced it open to find my author’s copies of my novelization of the upcoming Mutant Chronicles film. There’s nothing like holding a fresh copy of one of your novels in your hand. It has that new-book smell. To celebrate, I found a copy of a movie …
Flames Rising Needs Monsters
My friends at FlamesRising.com are looking for writers and artists to contribute monsters for this year’s run up to Halloween. I chipped in a fun one, which you can look for on their site next month. You can also find bits from E.E. Knight, Jess Hartley, Jason Morningstar, Monica Valentinelli, Rich Dansky, Gregor Hutton, Alana Abbott, Jared Sorenson, Jason Blair, …
Of Dice and Pen Discount
My short story “Prometheus Unwound” first appeared in The Book of All Flesh, edited by Jim Lowder and published by Eden Studios, and it won the Origins Award for Best Game-Related Short Work of 2001. Flying Pen Press and editor Fred Poutre recently reprinted it in a new collection of game-designer written stories called Of Dice and Pen. This features …