Late last year, I hauled a few boxes of things out of my father’s attic and discovered a whole horde of gaming treasures. My eldest son, Marty, is now putting many of them up on eBay for me a few at a time. While some of them have sentimental or historical value, if I didn’t miss them for the ten …
Quick Bundle of Holding Encore
You might recall that the Bundle of Holding ran an encore presentation of the original deal back at the start of the year. Two weeks later, they’ve now brought the Bundle of Holding +3 back too. This includes a number of fantastic stories by game designers, and it includes my own Dangerous Games: How to Play. This bundle expires at the …
The Bundle of Holding Strikes Back
Allen Varney launched the first Bundle of Holding earlier this year, featuring a bundle of novels and fiction collections written by renowned game designers. I helped him out with executing his ideas, even going so far as to run some of the payments systems through my own accounts until he could get his business banking properly set up. The whole …
The Great Heffalump Exchange
Earlier this week, my pal Mike Selinker–the head of Lone Shark Games–asked a bunch of the people he regularly works with to join him in a holiday gift swap, something often called a white elephant exchange. Being Mike, he had a few twists on it. Since few of us live in the same city, we’d do the exchange virtually. Since …
My Holiday Sale
Since we’re stampeding toward the year’s grand finale, I want to do something to thank all of you for your support in 2013. In the spirit of the season, I just put the #1 books in each of my three trilogies on sale for 80% off. Until the end of the year–or whenever I recover from New Year’s Eve–you can …
Monster Academy 1 Finished!
This week, I put the finishing touches on the first Monster Academy novel, I Will Not Eat People. This is for the last of the four 12 for ’12 Kickstarters I ran, and I’m finally getting around to shoving it out the door. (See the previous two posts for some of the reasons why.) My backers should start getting ebooks this …
My-My-My-My-My-My Glaucoma
As I’ve mentioned, I was diagnosed with glaucoma back on October 30 of this year. I get a lot of questions about it, so I want to try to answer some of them here. Glaucoma.org is a fine place to dig a little deeper if you’re curious about it. Glaucoma is a disease of the eye that usually involves an …
Rest in Peace, Pat Kolinsky
Just yesterday, I finally sent out the files for Monster Academy: I Will Not Eat People, the first book in the trilogy. I’m running late on the series, of course, but my backers have been kind and patient about it. A good chunk of the delays came down to me having an overwhelming amount of work on my plate this year, …
Crossover Day!
As you may recall from last year, my pals at Zombie Orpheus ran a huge Kickstarter for their fantastic film The Gamers: Hands of Fate, which is mostly set at Gen Con, my favorite event of the year. As part of that, they asked me if I’d be interested setting up a crossover between the movie and my then-upcoming Gen Con thriller, Dangerous Games: …
November Appearances
I have three appearances scheduled for next month, one in South Dakota, one in Milwaukee, and one right here in Beloit. First up, I’ll be at Nanocon at Dakota State University from November 8—10, along with luminaries like Richard Dansky, Geoffrey Long, and Ken Rolston. In particular, I have a keynote speech at 10 AM on November 9 about how intriguing …