My pal Jim Pinto, who also designed the 12 for ’12 logo, just came up with a fantastic logo for Shotguns & Sorcery as well. It’s reminiscent of both a tavern sign and a shotgun case, which makes it perfect for the books. Look for this to appear on novels – and a Kickstarter video – near you soon. Jim …
Goblintown Justice Out Now!
This morning, I published my first short story ebook, “Goblintown Justice.” This is also the first story for my Shotguns & Sorcery setting, and it first appeared in Carnage & Consequences, the Gen Con Writers Symposium anthology edited by Marc Tassin. (It’s actually the second story I wrote for it. The first will appear in Robin D. Laws’s anthology The New …
Magic #1 Reviews
Magic: The Gathering #1 came out on Wednesday, and the reviews are streaming in. Most people seem to like it a lot. Here are details from a few of the kinder reviews. CNN’s Geek Out! made the book its pick of the week. If you’re looking for something new this week, or just want to dip your toe in and …
Capricon Schedule
Next weekend, I’ll be in Wheeling, IL, for Capricon 32. It’s the first time I’ve been to the show, but I’ve heard excellent things about it. My schedule for the show is below. If you’re in the area, come on out and join us! Saturday, February 11 1 — 1:30 PM: Reading Probably something from Carpathia 2:30 —4 PM: Autographing with …
BNW on Slacker Heroes
Today I wrote a guest post over at Slacker Heroes about how I set out on my 12 for ’12 plan and how I managed in the first month. Go ahead on over there and give it a read!
Free Kobolds!
Between now and Valentine’s Day, my friends over at Kobold Quarterly are giving out free copies of Kobold Quarterly, their tabletop fantasy roleplaying game (i.e. D&D and variants) magazine. The issue they’re handing out gratis is #14, their Gen Con 2010 issue, which featured articles by my pals Monte Cook and Rob Heinsoo, among other excellent entries. To get the …
Lost in Translation
One thing about writing tie-in or other work-for-hire books is that no one needs to let you know when they’ve sold the foreign-language rights to those books. This makes for some interesting moments when you find your name popping up on a book you’ve never seen before in a language you don’t speak. While looking for data on Amortels, I …
You Say Amortels, I Say Amortals
If you read French, you can now get a free sample of the first chapters of Amortels, the French edition of my novel Amortals, published by L’Atalante. I’m happy to see them pushing the book hard, including advertising the book in the header on their website. If English is your native tongue, then head over to Voxael’s blog for a …
Sci-Fi Bulletin Loves Vegas Knights
Over at Sci-Fi Bulletin, Paul Simpson got a real kick out of Vegas Knights. He writes: At times it’s humorous, sardonic, deadly serious, horrific – and that can be on just one page! There are so many sudden shifts in the narrative that there are times when you wonder exactly what’s going on but Matt Forbeck knows where he’s taking …
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying On Its Way
Last summer, I joined up with an all-star team of game designers to pitch in on the upcoming Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game coming out from Margaret Weis Productions. That made me part of the game’s Illuminati, along with Cam Banks, Rob Donoghue, Will Hindmarch, Philippe-Antoine Ménard, and Jesse Scoble. Cam, who’s developing the game, has since run with it and drafted Jack Norris, …