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 …
Blood Bowl: Killer Contract #3 Out Now!
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.