Last year, Gen Con (the largest tabletop gaming convention in America) decided to form a panel of experts to help them select people to join them as part of their slate of Industry Insider Guests of Honor. These are creators who work in the tabletop gaming industry and have something to share as panelists at the show. Ken Hite, Stan!, …
All Sorts of Shorts: The New Hero 2
Two fresh anthologies and a revamped one either hit shelves in the recent past or are just about to appear, and I have a story in each of them. First up, we have two books from the all-new Stone Skin Press, which is run by my pal Robin Laws. Robin’s a fantastic game designer, but it turns out he has …
Bad Times in Dragon City on Sale Now
Bad Times in Dragon City, the sequel to my fantasy noir novel Hard Times in Dragon City, is on sale now. This is the second in the Shotguns & Sorcery series, and the fifth of the books I wrote during my 12 for ’12 challenge. My backers received their copies a few weeks back, and I’m now releasing the book to the public. …
More Bundle of Holding to Love
With just nine days left to grab the Bundle of Holding, another bonus book has been added to the package. Bundle founder Allen Varney steps up with Stay Alert, the first of his novels based upon the classic RPG Paranoia, the hilarious roleplaying game of dystopian treachery. This brings the grand total of the number of books in the full bundle to …
Bundle of Holding Got Bigger
The Bundle of Holding is only a few days old, but it’s already doing pretty well. Despite a few Day-One glitches, it brought in a lot of buyers and made a good chunk of change for both Child’s Play and Reading Is Fundamental so far. One of the biggest surprises is how generous the donors have been. We started out …
Hard Times Hardcopies on Sale Now
With the help of my friends at DriveThruFiction.com, I just flipped the switch, and you print junkies out there can now order print-on-demand hardcopies of Hard Times in Dragon City from them. Hardcovers are $15, and softcovers are $10 each. They come complete with a free copy of the ebook editions in DRM-free ePub, Kindle, and PDF formats. Of course, if …
A Split Worlds Story from Emma Newman
Today, in a very special blog post… I’m going to do something I’ve never done on this blog before: post someone else’s fiction. Hell, I don’t even post my own fiction up here that much. I usually wrap it up in an ebook and either sell it or give it away in that format instead. To be honest, it never …
Grab the Bundle of Holding Now
The Bundle of Holding went live this morning. As I mentioned earlier this week, this is a bundle of fiction ebooks written by games writers, for which you can pay what you like. You get the books in all three major formats (ePub, Kindle, and PDF), and they’re all DRM-free (no built-in copy restrictions). There are eight books in the …
Magic: The Gathering: Paths of Vengeance #3 Out Tomorrow
Tomorrow, IDW releases Magic: The Gathering: Paths of Vengeance #3. This is the 11th comic I’ve written featuring Dack Fayden, the planeswalking spell thief, and it’s roller coaster ride that leads up to the climax in the next and final issue in the series. You can check out a free preview of it over at Comicosity. Dack’s story – or at least …
There’s a Bundle on the Horizon
This Wednesday, keep your eyes peeled for the Bundle of Holding, a bundle of fiction ebooks written by tabletop game designers (like me). It’s going to make for a fantastic deal, and it’ll include one of my novels in the pack. Tabletop game designers spend their days building worlds and adventures for other people to play in. They come up …