My friends over at Pelgrane Press–who are stalwart sponsors of the Diana Jones Award ceremony, among their many other good deeds–just announced that they’re launching a new fiction imprint called Stone Skin Press. Tabletop RPG legend Robin Laws heads up the new operation as its creative director, ensuring some high-quality tales. Stone Skin also announced its first three titles: New …
Conduit 2 on the Way
The next computer game I had a hand is Conduit 2, the sequel to The Conduit, one of the few first-person shooters for the Wii. Back before the original came out, the fine folks at High Voltage Software asked me to come up with the story for the sequel. The roots of The Conduit went a lot deeper than most …
Star Wars vs. Star Trek Cover
If it seems like it’s been quiet around here lately, that’s because I spent the last couple weeks crunching through to the end of Star Wars vs. Star Trek, a new nonfiction book I’m writing for Adams Media. Although Adams doesn’t have it up on its own site yet, Amazon already has information on the book, including a cover shot. …
Marvel-Ous
Last week, my first work published by Marvel Comics hit shelves. It’s not much, just an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A—Z Update #5. I wrote the entry for Raptor, a newish Spider-Man villain. I’d already read the comics, so I figured the workload would be light. Still, the rigor with which team leader Jeff Christiansen …
The Guardian and Total Sci-Fi Love Amortals
Amortals just received two more glowing reviews, one of which includes my favorite line from a review ever. First, though, Paul Simpson at Total Sci-Fi Online enjoyed the book and says: Forbeck deftly deals with the philosophical implications of the society he’s functioning within while delivering a thrilling, chase-filled detective story with a surprising finale. VERDICT: 8/10 Highly enjoyable technothriller. Wait for …
Taking Risks at Booklife
Over at Booklife, Jeremy L. C. Jones asked a bunch of contributors to The Bones about what it means to roll the dice and take some risks with your writing. He posted my answers (along with a terribly kind introduction) today. It may be the only time you hear writing being compared with downhill skiing today.
Vote for Amortals for SF Book of the Year
The folks over at SFBook were kind enough to name Amortals their Book of the Month in November. This apparently put it in the running for their Book of the Year, an online contest that’s open to voting from the public. Other books in the running include Pat Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind, Mike Shevdon’s The Road to Bedlam …
Amortals in SciFi Now
According to my publisher pals at Angry Robot, SciFi Now covered Amortals in its latest issue, calling it “A nightmarish vision of a future without death.” I’m guessing that the piece showed up in issue #48, although since I’m in the US and SciFi Now is a UK publication, I don’t have a copy at hand. However, the Angry Robots …
Puppy Tweets
It’s been so long since I worked on this one that I almost forgot about it. Mattel has a new toy out for the holiday season called Puppy Tweets. It’s a tag that you attach to your dog’s collar, and it communicates with your computer via a USB dongle. Through that it contacts Twitter and sends out tweets related to …
Worldbuilders 2010
Pat Rothfuss, author of the excellent The Name of the Wind, has set up Worldbuilders – his annual fundraising drive for Heifer International – once again. As an incentive for fans of genre fiction, Pat and dozens of other authors have donated all sorts of prizes that you can win for taking part in the drive. Every $10 you chip …