At the moment, I’m tangentially involved in two different monster-themed Kickstarters: Cthulhu Claus Holiday Cards Wave 2 and Goblin Quest. In the first, the talented Jody Lindke (who provided illustrations for Monster Academy: I Will Not Eat People) returns for a second round of holiday cards featuring the creepy yet merry Cthulhu Claus. These feature inscriptions from the master of all things …
Announcing the Shotguns & Sorcery RPG!
I’m happy to announced that I’ve licensed the setting for my Shotguns & Sorcery novels to Outland Entertainment for both tabletop roleplaying games and enhanced ebooks. You can read the full press release below, but the tl;dr version is this: Kickstarter for the RPG coming in October. RPG to debut at Gen Con 2015. It’s still early days as far as the …
The Dangerous Games Gen Con Sale
To celebrate Gen Con this week, I’m putting all three of my Dangerous Games novels on sale for only $2.99! That’s $2 off each. If you grab all three installments in the trilogy, that comes to $8.97, for a total savings of $6. They’re on sale right now through the Buy Direct and DriveThruFiction buttons on my site. It’ll take a while …
My Gen Con 2014 Schedule
Gen Con is coming up this week! This is my favorite time of year, and I hope you can come share it with me. I’m once again part of the committee selecting the Industry Insider Guests of Honor, and this will mark my 33rd consecutive Gen Con and 12th in a row as a guest of honor. I’ll also take …
We Have a Winner!
Thanks to everyone who downloaded Dangerous Games: How to Play for free early last week and entered the drawing to win three free passes to Gen Con. It took me three tries to find a winner who could make it to the show and put the passes to use. Fortunately, the earlier winners (Wayne Humfleet and Scott Fields) were happy to pass them …
Win Gen Con Passes, Plus Get a Free Book!
My favorite time of year–Gen Con, the greatest tabletop games gathering in the world–is just around the corner, and better yet, it’s my birthday on Monday. To celebrate, I’m going to give away ebook copies of Dangerous Games: How to Play. Not only that, one lucky reader is going to get three free passes to Gen Con. How to Play is the first …
Shotguns & Sorcery for the CORE RPG
Among his many other talents, my pal Lester Smith is a crackerjack game designer. If you’re a longtime tabletop gamer, you probably played some of his creations, including Dark Conspiracy and Dragon Dice. He’s been working on a new tabletop roleplaying game for a while now, and I had the honor of playing it at the Nexus Game Fair a few weeks …
Join Me for Fiction for a Cure
My pal Mike Stackpole helps run Fiction for a Cure, a Relay for Life event that takes place in Second Life. (To give that a linkbait headline: BESTSELLING AUTHORS FIGHT CANCER IN ONLINE VIRTUAL WORLD.) This year, he asked a number of other authors to donate books and other items for the cause. This includes other all-star authors Diana Gabaldon, …
Join Me in Rockford
This Saturday, I’ll be speaking at the InPrint Writers monthly meeting at the Mendelssohn Center in Rockford, Illinois. It starts at 1 PM, and I’m told that local writer Ted Iverson and I are slated to start chatting by 1:30. It’s open to the public, so come out and join us if you have the time.
The InSpectres Movie Kickstarter
A few years back, my pals at Reactor 88 Studios asked me to lend them a hand with their latest project, a horror-comedy film based upon InSpectres, a brilliant indie roleplaying game by my friend Jared Sorensen. I came in and wrote a new draft of Jeff Dohm’s original screenplay and served as one of the film’s producers, and I even played a …