Yesterday, Blizzard posted a story I wrote for them for StarCraft II, the latest installment of the best-selling real-time strategy (RTS) of all time. It’s called “Lost Vikings,” and its about a unit of terran pilots who try to save their adopted planet by fighting off an alien (zerg) invasion, hoping to delay the attackers long enough for their friends …
The Gamers & Dangerous Games
Sharp-eyed readers and hardcore gamers who pick up Dangerous Games: How to Play (my new thriller novel set at Gen Con) may recognize a man by the name of Leo Lamb. Leo is one of the characters from The Gamers series of fantastic and funny films created by Ben Dobyns, Matt Vancil, Don Early, and the rest of the crew at Zombie …
Gen Con and Me
This piece appears in the back of Dangerous Games: How to Play, but I want you to be able to read it whether you have the book or not. In case it doesn’t glow right through the pages of this book, let me make one thing clear. I love Gen Con. I’ve been going to the convention every summer since 1985, when …
Dangerous Games: How to Play Releases Today!
Woot! Dangerous Games: How to Play launches as an ebook today. If you backed the Dangerous Games Kickstarter drive, you should already have a copy, of course, but if you weren’t one of those lucky people – or if you know someone else who might like the book – here’s your chance to grab a copy for only $4.99. Dangerous Games: How to Play is …
The Dangerous Games: How to Play Insider’s List
My next novel – Dangerous Games: How to Play – is due for release this Tuesday, May 14. This is the first book in the third of the 12 for ’12 trilogies I wrote last year, and despite that, it’s different from all the others. For one, it’s set in the real world and the modern day and has zero …
Kickstarter Stretch Goals Update
As I wrote back on April 22, my friends have lassoed me into joining many of their Kickstarters by putting up some of my work as a stretch goal for their drives. At the moment, I’m involved in four six different drives: Lords of Gossamer and Shadow: I’m creating a new world setting for this RPG. It smashed through that stretch …
The Loot Drop Deal
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve sold a new novel to Jim Frenkel over at Tor, the largest publisher of science fiction in the world. It’s called Loot Drop, and it’s a modern-day thriller packed with elements from the online universe of MMOs (massively multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft). This is not a tie-in to any particular game. In fact, I’m …
Wes Chu Talks Ebook Piracy
My pal Wes Chu is one hell of a sharp writer. I had the honor and pleasure of offering a blurb for his debut novel, The Lives of Tao (available now at better booksellers everywhere), for which I said: “A fast-paced, high-action SF mix of Jason Bourne meets the Hero’s Journey, jam-packed with dark conspiracies, wild romance, ancient aliens, and a secret, …
Chicago Saturday with Wes Chu and Crew
This Saturday evening, I’m heading down to Chicago to help my pal Wes Chu celebrate the release of his debut novel, The Lives of Tao. The book came out on Tuesday, so the party is the weekend after, of course. It’s being held at the NV Penthouse Lounge, and you and everyone else you know are cordially invited to attend. Being the …
Stretching for Kickstarters
I haven’t run any Kickstarter drives of my own since last September. Expect that to change soon, but in the meantime, I’ve been asked to help out with a number of other Kickstarters in which my work is either featured or set as a stretch goal. In the past, that’s included: Robin Laws’s Hillfolk James Wallis’s Alas Vegas John Wick’s Wicked Fantasy Savage …