Shotguns & Sorcery started out as an idea I had for a new setting for a fantasy roleplaying game. Back in 2001, I licensed the concept to Mongoose Publishing in a sweet deal that would have seen me writing an entire line of d20 (Dungeons & Dragons-compatible) books. And then my wife became pregnant with quadruplets. (Yeah, I know. Writers. …
The Marvel Encyclopedia 2014 Is Here!
Back in 2008, I revised the Marvel Encyclopedia for DK Publishing. That meant taking the original version of a book written by Tom DeFalco, Peter Sanderson, Tom Brevoort, Michael Teitelbaum, Daniel Wallace, and Andrew Darling–and revamping and updating most of the entries. I also wrote a slew of new material for the book and nearly melted a keyboard trying to get it …
My Disney Trip
Last month, Corrina Lawson of Geek Dad/Geek Mom had to drop out of a planned junket to Disney Studios. I wound up going in her place and had a wonderful time. Not only did I get a guided tour of the inside of both the Disney Animation Studios and Disney Toon Studios–both of which are normally closed to the public–I …
The Crossing the Streams Reddit AMA
As you might recall, I’m running a month-long contest here as part of the multi-author Crossing the Streams mega-contest of DOOOOOM! (In which said doom involves the ability to win dozens of autographed books from some of the best genre writers around.) As part of that, a bunch of us Crossing the Streams authors are taking part in an AMA …
The First Shotguns & Sorcery Story
There’s a long history behind the Shotguns & Sorcery setting. It started out as a setting for a tabletop roleplaying game that I never got around to writing (because quadruplets), and it eventually became the world I used for the second of my 12 for ’12 Kickstarters. Those stories filled a doorstop of an omnibus, and I’ve been giving away the …
Get My Eberron Audiobooks and Ebooks
Over the past several months, Audible has not only been releasing books from Angry Robot–including my Amortals, which I wrote about yesterday–but also several novels from Wizards of the Coast. In that number, we can now count all three of the novels I wrote in the Lost Mark Trilogy. These were some of the first novels written for Eberron, the Dungeons …
Grab the Amortals Audiobook
Last week, I stumbled over the fact that Amortals has been released as an audiobook. This is part of the deal that Audible has with Angry Robot to turn their novels into books people can hear being read by professionals. Carpathia was one of the first novels to be released under this deal, and the idea was that once Audible was able to …
Goodbye, Aaron Allston
I got the terrible news last night that Aaron Allston died earlier in the day. From what I can piece together, he’d arrived in Branson, Missouri, to be a guest of honor at VisionCon this weekend, where he collapsed and was taken to the hospital but did not recover. Our mutual friend Allen Varney posted an excellent obituary for Aaron last night. Go …
A Sojourn with Fear the Boot
Last week, the folks behind the Fear the Boot podcast–on which I’ve appeared a couple times–released their first ever anthology of fiction: Sojourn, edited by Laura K. Anderson and Ryan J. McDaniel, with a great deal of help from Fear the Boot’s Dan Repperger. I’m proud to have a story in the book, along with Laura K. Anderson Thomas Childress Wayne Cole …
Crossing the Streams, AGAIN!
Back in 2012, Ari Marmell came up with this great idea for a bunch of authors to run simultaneous contests to help promote each other’s books. He called it Crossing the Streams, and it involved each author running their own contest, plus a united contest that gave a book from each writer to the grand-prize winner. It was both successful …