To make a living at anything – even, maybe especially, writing – you need to treat it like what it is: a business. As soon as you start relying on the money coming in from that activity, it leaps out of the realm of being a hobby and transforms into something you ought to take seriously, especially if you think …
Hot & Steamy Coming this Summer
After taking part in the Writers Symposium at Gen Con last year, organizer Jean Rabe asked me to contribute a story to one of her upcoming anthologies: Hot & Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance. She co-edited it with Martin H. Greenberg, an icon in genre anthologies, and I’m pleased to say she bought a story from me for it. This …
Hite on Vegas Knights
At OddCon last weekend, I gave my pal Ken Hite a copy of Vegas Knights. After all, he’s thanked in the acknowledgements as one of my regular compadres in my many wild trips to Vegas, and few people outside the city know it as well as he does. He earned a copy of the book in the best way. Of …
Go Joe! Cobra Wars Out Now
I’d thought that G.I. Joe: Tales from the Cobra Wars was due out next week, but it seems to have slipped out early and is in stores now. Max Brooks (World War Z) and Jeff Conner edited it, and it features novellas from Max,Chuck Dixon, Jon McGoran, Jonathan Maberry, John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow, Duane Swierczynski, Dennis Tafoya, and me. That’s damn fine company to find myself in. …
Ghosts in Italy
I just found out yesterday that Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon was translated into Italian and released into the wild as I Fantasmi di Ascalon sometime last year. For me, that’s particularly cool because my sister Jody spent a dozen or so years in Italy and married a wonderful Italian man who’s now the father of their two beautiful sons. …
Fantasy Literature on Vegas Knights
Over at FantasyLiterature.com, Stefan Raets gives Vegas Knights a solid review. While the book went off the rails for him later in the story, he raves about the better part of it, saying such kind things as: Vegas Knights is a fun, entertaining urban fantasy novel that starts off with a bang and rarely slows down. A large part of the …
Two Origins Awards Nods
The nominations for the Origins Awards – which honor the best in tabletop gaming every year – were just released. The list shows a strong slate of products, and I’m happy to say I’ve played/read a number of them. Congratulations to all my friends who picked up nods! Two projects I chipped in on picked up nominations: Family Games: The …
The Book of Extreme Facts
I see that IDW has announced my next book for them: Book of Extreme Facts. This is a tome of wild and amazing trivia that I co-wrote with one of IDW’s founders, my old pal Kris Oprisko, and it comes jam-packed with gorgeous illustrations by Brian Miroglio and a snazzy cover by Gabriel Rodriguez, who recently garnered three Eisner nominations …
Vegas Knights Interview and Review
Vegas Knights came out in the US while I was hard at work at Ubisoft Singapore, which meant I didn’t have much time to plug it at the time. Fortunately, some excellent people helped out with that while I was out of town. Over at From the Shadows, E.J. Stevens interviewed me about Vegas Knights, and I stopped by a …
Ghosts of Ascalon Nominated for a Scribe Award!
Ghosts of Ascalon, the Guild Wars book I wrote with Jeff Grubb, just picked up a nomination for the Scribe Award for Best Speculative Original. The International Media Tie-In Writers (IAMTW) gives out the Scribe Awards at Comic-Con every year to the best in tie-in novels of the past year. In the past, the judges have nominated my Mutant Chronicles …