The Boom Studios website informs me that Blood Bowl: Killer Contract #3 hit comic-book stores yesterday. It also shows the book with a snazzy, new cover I’ve never seen before (apparently that was Cover C I had up earlier), provided by the series’ stunning artist Lads Helloven. I haven’t seen the book yet myself, but I plan to go hunting …
Tweeting
I’ve joined Twitter, and I’m using it as a sort of sideblog on this site. See the box at the top of the first sidebar for a sample or follow me directly if you like.
Mutant Chronicles eBooks
Some cool news. My Mutant Chronicles novelization will be published not only in the standard, comforting, smashed-and-bleached-wood-pulp version but also as an eBook and in a Kindle edition. Even though we’ve had PDFs around for years now, this–my 13th novel–will be the first to appear in electrons as well as ink.
Mutant Chronicles Cover
Yesterday, an envelope showed up from Random House (which owns Del Rey) with a short stack of cover flats* for my novelization of the Mutant Chronicles film. The new cover looks great, much better than the original one Del Rey had mocked up. Tom Jane makes a great Mitch Hunter. Better yet, Del Rey has posted an excerpt from the …
ACD Open House
My friends at ACD have asked me to come up to Madison, Wisconsin, for their open house for retailers later this week. I’ll be there this Thursday, September 11, starting at 2 PM. If you’re a games retailer anywhere nearby, you should stop by and say hi. I’ll be happy to scribble my name all over anything you like, within …
Blood Bowl #3 Next Week
The fine folks at Boom Studios tell me that we can expect to see Blood Bowl: Killer Contract #3 in finer comic book stores next week. That’ll put us at the halfway mark for the series, and I can’t wait for you to all see how it all comes together. Boom has posted the final covers for the issue, which …
CIG to Superheroes and Villains in Stores
From what I’ve been told, my latest book–The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Drawing Superheroes and Villains, Illustrated–is in stores as of yesterday. If you’re interested in drawing all sorts of different types of super-powered characters–or seeing a whole slew of new ones that I created for the book–be sure to pick it up. While I’m plugging that, let me give …
Pulsipher on Prototypes
Lewis Pulsipher (designer of the board game gem Britannia ) had an article published at GameCareerGuide.com yesterday about the value of using paper (or tabletop) prototypes when designing video games. Good points all around.
Alternate Reality Reviews
Early last year, before Wizards announced it would release a new “fourth” edition of Dungeons & Dragons this year, I completed work on The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating Dungeons & Dragons characters. Unfortunately, because the book was written for the game’s third edition (3.5, really), it was bound to be outdated pretty quickly. Delays in the process added up …
40 is Good
My beautiful and amazing wife threw an excellent birthday party for me last Saturday night. I turned 40 earlier in the month, but we were out of town and so couldn’t have a proper blow-out. Ann corrected that in mighty fashion on Saturday night. People from all around the neighborhood and southern Wisconsin came out to give me a hard …