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 Unfortunately, because the book was written for the game’s third edition (3.5, really), it was bound to be outdated pretty quickly.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 …
Cash for the Stache
My pal James Wallis is growing a mustache to raise money to combat testicular and prostate cancer. This is a good cause, and James is a good guy, so I chipped in already. If you are so inclined as to encourage a stalwart Englishman to sprout facial hair for a good cause, I suggest you do so too.
My Wife in the News
The Madison ABC affiliate came down to Janesville this morning to interview my wife and her fellow school social worker Mandy Harvey about their work with homeless students in the Janesville School District. (In case you don’t know Ann, she’s the second woman to appear during the segment.) Ann’s only been back at work after the summer break for three …
Where Are They–Wait! Where?
People wander in and out of the gaming industry all the time. For instance, this year at Gen Con, I ran into Matt Grau (formerly of Steve Jackson Games) and Nic Jequier (formerly of XID Creative), neither of whom I’d seen in years, and I had a wonderful time catching up with them. Here’s a blast from the past that …