Over at Tor.com, I posted about the latest charity bundle of tabletop gaming PDFs that DriveThruRPG has put together. This one gives you $330+ of product for only $20, with proceeds going to the New Zealand Red Cross to help with its efforts to give aid in the wake of the recent earthquake there. It’s a great cause supported by …
Ranting Dragon Raves over Vegas Knights
Benni at the Ranting Dragon recently read Vegas Knights, and it seems to have struck a chord with her. She insightfully identifies the book as being closer to Bringing Down the House/21 than Ocean’s 11. I’ve often thought the book hews closer to Dresden Files meets Bringing Down the House than Harry Potter meets Ocean’s 11, but the latter pairing …
Vegas Knights Gets 9/10
A savvy reader known as Bane of Kings reviewed Vegas Knights at The Founding Fields today, and he loved it. He gives it a stellar 9 out of 10 and writes: You’ll find that you can get through this book pretty quickly, mainly because you simply won’t be able to put it down… The plot of this novel is well constructed, and written …
New Rave for Vegas Knights
Stefan Fergus of the Civilian Reader read Vegas Knights last week, and he enjoyed it. Among his sharp praise for the book, he writes: “Brisk and action-packed, Vegas Knights is an entertaining read… It’s fun, pacey, and interesting. Recommended.” Vegas Knights hits the UK on March 3, and it has a worldwide ebook release that same day. Paper copies arrive in the …
The Sixteen Forty-Nine Premiere
If you’re anywhere near Beloit this weekend, come out to the Beloit Film Festival for the premiere of Sixteen Forty-Nine. This documentary by Ruben Burgos highlights the issue of homeless teens in Rock County, and my wife Ann – who’s the homeless student liaison for the School District of Janesville – is interviewed about the situation in the film. It …
Officially a Geek Dad
As of today, I’m officially a member of the Geek Dad team. Geek Dad is a fantastic blog that’s part of Wired.com, and it concentrates on “Raising Geek Generation 2.0.” If you know me – and my kids – you know that fits me to a T. I’ll be chipping in posts there as time allows, and you can go …
More Amortals Raves
Over at Amazon UK, their Amazon Vine program has produced another two excellent reviews for Amortals. Dinky writes: This is a blast of fresh air… This book not only throws together all the elements of a good modern thriller – shoot-outs, chases, explosions, gadgets, intrigues, a sparky agent of the opposite sex, politics, hints of exotic foreign travel (as in Mars, …
Vegas Knights in SFX Magazine
The latest SFX Magazine features a review of Vegas Knights. It’s only available in the print edition, but I’m told it says many good things about the book, including: What’s clever about the way Matt Forbeck has structured this novel is that the magic-heist stuff is a good enough hook to get you reading, but as it develops beyond that …
See Sixteen Forty-Nine
My wife Ann is one of the leaders of Project 16:49, an effort to set up a shelter for homeless teens here in Rock County, Wisconsin. One of their biggest tools for drawing the public’s attention to this problem has been a documentary about three such teens, filmed right here in Beloit by Ruben Burgos. Ann and the other members …
More Praise for Amortals
Over at SF Signal, John DeNardo (who I met at the World Fantasy Convention) has a number of kind things to say about Amortals. He calls the book: [T]hought-provoking rather than preachy as it deals with topics of privacy, civil liberties and caring about what happens to the world around you. Also, the Amazon Vine program produced another great review …