Dangerous Games: How to Win debuts today! As with the previous two Dangerous Games novels – How to Play and How to Cheat – How to Win is packed full of real-life people, mostly game designers I know and hang out with when I can. This time around, a big chunk part of the novel takes place in the Writer’s Symposium at Gen Con, so a large number …
How to Play Only 99¢
To celebrate Gen Con starting this week – and the release of Dangerous Games: How to Win tomorrow – I’ve put Dangerous Games: How to Play on sale for only 99¢. You should be able to find it at the following places for this bargain price: Amazon Barnes & Noble DriveThruFiction.com Right here at Forbeck.com Please share the love and tell your friends and …
Dangerous Games: How to Cheat on Sale Now!
How to Cheat, the second book in the Dangerous Games trilogy of thrillers set at Gen Con, is on sale now. I uploaded the ebook to the various resellers last night, and at the moment you can purchase it through: Amazon Barnes & Noble Smashwords DriveThruFiction.com Or you can grab it right here on my site. I’ll have it up with …
Dangerous Games: How to Cheat Insider’s List
My next novel – Dangerous Games: How to Cheat – releases today, Tuesday, July 2. This is the second book in Dangerous Games, the third of the 12 for ’12 trilogies I wrote last year, and it’s set at my favorite place on Earth: Gen Con, the largest tabletop gaming convention in America. People who read the first book in the trilogy – Dangerous Games: …
Dangerous Games: How to Cheat Slated for July 2 Release
How to Cheat, the second novel in the Dangerous Games trilogy of thrillers set at Gen Con, is slated to be released to the public as an ebook on July 2. Backers of the Kickstarter campaign that funded the books have already been enjoying the story for weeks, but this is the chance for the rest of the word to get in …
The Dangerous Games Gen Con Contest Update
So far, we’ve had a lot of great entries for the The Dangerous Games Gen Con Writer’s Symposium Contest. Once again, to join, all you have to do is write on Twitter something like: “I want to go to Gen Con and meet <insert author name here>. #GenConWriters http://wp.me/ph1fv-1hT” Your entry needs to include the following bits: #GenConWriters The name (or Twitter …
Kickstarter: Figuring Your Costs
One of the first things you need to do if you’re running a Kickstarter is figure out what you want to produce and how much it’s going to cost. For my 12 for ’12 Kickstarters, this turned out to be pretty simple. The things you need to think about include: Production of the files for both the ebook edition and …
Dangerous Games: How to Play in Print on Tuesday!
If you like your books on paper, here’s something good for you. I have the print proofs for Dangerous Games: How to Play in hand, as you can see in the photo above. I’ll make them available for sale on Tuesday, June 4, 2013, over at DriveThruFiction.com. The paperbacks will be $10, and the hardcovers will be $15. Both come bundled …
The Gamers & Dangerous Games
Sharp-eyed readers and hardcore gamers who pick up Dangerous Games: How to Play (my new thriller novel set at Gen Con) may recognize a man by the name of Leo Lamb. Leo is one of the characters from The Gamers series of fantastic and funny films created by Ben Dobyns, Matt Vancil, Don Early, and the rest of the crew at Zombie …
Gen Con and Me
This piece appears in the back of Dangerous Games: How to Play, but I want you to be able to read it whether you have the book or not. In case it doesn’t glow right through the pages of this book, let me make one thing clear. I love Gen Con. I’ve been going to the convention every summer since 1985, when …