Seems like my friends are breaking out all over. Yesterday, Wizards of the Coast finally announced its long-in-the-works imprint for creator-owned fiction, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries. The initial list of writers includes my pals Richard Danksy and Rob King. \ In other news, podcasting author Scott Sigler just sold three novels to Crown at auction. Scott’s spent some time …
Sad Day for the Hokies
By now, you’ve probably heard of the shootings on the campus of Virginia Tech, the bloodiest such incident in American history. This struck closer to me than you might expect because Pinnacle Entertainment Group, the gaming company I co-founded with Shane Hensley back in 1996, is based in Tech’s hometown of Blacksburg, Virginia. I lived and worked in and around …
Quotable Mamet
As I charge headlong toward my deadlines, I’ve been picking away at Bambi vs. Godzilla by David Mamet, the legendary screenwriter and playwright. This series of short essays about “the movie business” makes for easy reads in the snippets of time I can scrounge up in the course of a day. His style doesn’t suit my tastes, but I enjoy …
More Bloody Fun
Poking around the web, I found the covers for the Blood Bowl Omnibus and Rumble in the Jungle (a.k.a. Blood Bowl #4). I don’t know if these are final or not, but they look pretty darn cool to me. The Omnibus cover features an accurate image of the Bad Bay Hackers’ helmet as described in the books. and the Rumble …
Actually, No OddCon
My apologies to those who came out, but I didn’t make it to OddCon today. Between the various illnesses running through the house and some high-pressure deadlines, I couldn’t see my way clear to leaving town. My biggest regret is not being able to spend some quality time with my pal John Kovalic, who took a hard, personal blow this …
OddCon 2007
The fine people at OddCon (read: Jerome Van Epps) have asked me to join them this weekend in Madison, WI. I’ll be there Saturday at noon for: Turning your favorite story or show into a game. What kind of game would you make of Dr. Blink? Matt Forbeck, Christopher Jones, John Kovalic, Melissa S. Kaercher, Monica Valentinelli, Jerome Van Epps. …
Games Quarterly Magazine No More
It’s true. I found out from Mark Simmons himself last week. The official release is below. It’s a crying shame. Mark’s been one of the industry’s biggest boosters, even from before he started the Games Quarterly Catalog 16 years ago. He turned around the Origins Awards before handing them over to Charles Ryan and then went on to rescue GAMA …
Let’s Get Ready to RUUUMMMBBBLLLEEE!!!
Amazon has noted the upcoming release of my fourth Blood Bowl novel: Rumble in the Jungle. As their listing states: Fourth Blood Bowl novel that follows the rags to riches career of star thrower Dunk Hoffnung and his team the Bad Bay Hackers. After winning the Spike! Magazine tournament final, the Hackers set sail for the fabulous land of Lustria …
Adepticon Report
I had a great time down at Adepticon last weekend. I drove down on Saturday morning and reported in to the Black Library‘s sales manager Vince Rospond, who staffed the booth in the dealer’s room. After about a half hour, Vince pointed out where my longtime friend Jervis Johnson was wandering the gaming hall and sent me off to chat …
An Official Computer Game Credit
Although I worked for a couple years at Human Head Studios and served as the president of Pinnacle Entertainment Group as we developed a Deadlands computer game (that never quite made it), I’ve yet to have my name in the credits of a published computer game. It’s the nature of such things. I have friends who spent years of their …