Earlier this month, I decided I was going to skip Comic-Con this year. I love the show, and I’ll miss seeing all of my friends there. However, Gen Con was bumped up a week, so there’s only a week and a half between it and Comic-Con this summer. I’m going to be spending a good part of that time in …
Deadlands: One Shot – Again
The fine folks at Drive Thru Comics have just released the PDF version of Deadlands: One Shot. This was my first published work in comics, and it premiered way back in 1999. I wrote the book and laid out and lettered the book myself. Kevin Sharpe and Richard Pollard provided the pencils, Chris Dreier and Jason Baumgartner worked on the …
Zombify Me
Tomorrow, I’m heading down to Chicago to join the Reactor 88 Studios team for a film shoot. They’re in the middle of creating the proof-of-concept short for the InSpectres movie, and they need someone to play the zombie. Sorry: “living-impaired individual.” That’s me. I know. If you’ve seen me stumbling about on a Saturday morning at a convention, you’ll say …
The InSpectres Teaser
Reactor 88 Studios just released this teaser for its upcoming proof-of-concept short for a film based on the InSpectres roleplaying game by Jared Sorensen. Reactor 88 plans to show off the short at this summer’s Gen Con. If you’re there and care to join us, the big event is Friday, August 6, at 7:30 PM in the Westin, Capitol III. …
My Family in the News
Yesterday, the Beloit Daily News ran an article on the Welty Environmental Center, a great place out on the edge of town here that’s dedicated to teaching people (especially kids) about nature. Ann takes the kids out there regularly in the summer for various classes and activities, and reporter Daniel Thompson showed up while they were there. Read the article …
Release Dates Released
Angry Robot just released its upcoming publishing schedule all the way up to the middle of 2011. This includes my first two original novels, Amortals and Vegas Knights. According to this, Amortals will hit the UK in November 2010, and North America in January of 2011. Vegas Knights storms the UK in March 2011 and North America in April 2011. To …
Back from the Rockies
If it seems like it’s been a bit quiet around here, that’s because I haven’t been around. I spent most of the last two weeks on one of those classic family road trips that American families insist on inflicting upon themselves every summer they can. (Cue up Lindsey Buckingham’s “Holiday Road” from National Lampoon’s Vacation.) Ann and I packed the …
Transformative Experiences
Over at Suvudu.com, a number of excellent authors talked about their memories of and experiences with the Transformers. That list includes Jason Blair, Jennifer Brozek, Tobias Buckell, Will Hindmarch, Aaron Rosenberg, and myself among many others. This is, of course, part of an elaborate plot to promote the release of Transformers: Exodus, written by my friend Alex Irvine. Be sure …
Free Ghosts of Ascalon Sample
Simon & Shuster has posted a good chunk of the first chapter of Guild Wars 2: Ghosts of Ascalon on its website. The same page also states that the book will be released on or around July 27, 2010. That means it’s less than a month until the book is available to you. Pre-orders are open right now, though, so you …
Brave New World & InSpectres at Gen Con
In that last post about my Gen Con schedule, I buried a notation about this year’s Gen Con event from Reactor 88 Studios. According to the official listing: Come see what Reactor 88 Studios is working on. We will be showing updates on the development of Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World, and we will also be be offering a first …