Storytellers Tale

My latest essay is up at Storytellers Unplugged. When you click over to read it, be sure to check out the website’s snazzy and modern new look too. This time around, I comment a bit more about the cancelation of my next novel from Wizards of the Coast. Now that it’s a few days later, I can honestly say I’m …

Vote for HG100 for the ENnies

Hobby Games: The 100 Best is up for an ENnie Award for Best Regalia (a “product used to complement role playing game play”). My pal Jim Lowder edited this book of 100 essays written by many of the best designers about the many of the best games, and my friends at Green Ronin published it. I have a single essay …

Wizards Novel Canceled

Erin Evans, one of my editors from Wizards of the Coast, called the other day. I immediately took this to be a bad sign. Editors are generally happy to work with you entirely by e-mail until something goes wrong. They they call you to break the bad news personally (which, honestly, is a brave and classy act). So when I …

Happy Anniversary!

Here’s to my wife, Ann, who has given me 16 years of wedded bliss (plus five wonderful kids!) and still puts up with me as well as ever. Plus, she’s taking me to see The Dark Knight tonight instead of Mamma Mia! I’m a lucky man.

Fanboy Love for Missing Comic?

Michael Pinto at Fanboy.com gives Blood Bowl: Killer Contract #2 a shout-out, which is great. However, my local stores claim to not have gotten their copies in yesterday when they were supposed to arrive. Anyone out there seen one in the wild? Let me know!

Blood Bowl: Killer Contract #2 Preview

The Comics Continuum has a preview of Blood Bowl: Killer Contract #2. This includes the first five pages of the book, along with the two basic variant covers. Comic Book Resources has a set of previews too, and it features the third variant cover, which I’d not seen until now. Look for it in stores today!

Blood Bowl: Killer Contract #5

No, it’s not out yet. I did discover an image (go ahead–click it!) of one of the covers for issue #5, which pits the Bad Bay Hackers against the legendary Champions of Death!

Soundbombing

My friend and the editor of my Idiot’s Guide books, Kris Oprisko of IDW fame, just started a new audioblog: Gomek Soundbombing. Kris is a huge music fan and has spent the last couple years living in Spain with his wife and kids, broadening his horizons, along with his musical tastes. Check it out!

Forbecks in the News

My family’s been in the newspapers around here a number of times lately, for various reasons. My sister Kim–who lives with her family in Shorewood, just north of Milwaukee–is heading up an effort to give every house in the village a reusable shopping bag. Meanwhile, my son Ken’s photo was in the Janesville Messenger. We were at a Cinco de …