Gen Con is coming up this week! This is my favorite time of year, and I hope you can come share it with me. I’m once again part of the committee selecting the Industry Insider Guests of Honor, and this will mark my 33rd consecutive Gen Con and 12th in a row as a guest of honor. I’ll also take …
Join Me in Rockford
This Saturday, I’ll be speaking at the InPrint Writers monthly meeting at the Mendelssohn Center in Rockford, Illinois. It starts at 1 PM, and I’m told that local writer Ted Iverson and I are slated to start chatting by 1:30. It’s open to the public, so come out and join us if you have the time.
Launch Pad and Other Events
Yesterday I was notified that I’ve been selected to attend the 2014 Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop. It’s a week-long summer science camp for established writers, held at the University of Wyoming, with the aim of giving such folks a solid grounding in real science so we can go write inspiring things about the stars. They only accept 12 to 15 people …
Gaming Pros: Apply to Be a Gen Con Guest of Honor
If you’re involved in the gaming industry in a professional capacity and have a real passion for games, you should apply to be an Industry Insider Guest of Honor at Gen Con. It’s a great way to experience the Best Four Days in Gaming–or, hey, the whole year. The application period for this honor is now open, and it runs …
It’s a Dangerous Games Fiasco
As part of the Kickstarter I ran for my Dangerous Games novels, I promised to create a playset for Fiasco based on the novels. For those who don’t know, Fiasco is a fantastic tabletop roleplaying game created by Jason Morningstar, which won the Diana Jones Award a few years back. It’s a fantastic game, although very different from your standard “kick down the door, …
My Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books Schedule
This weekend, I’ll be zipping up to Waukesha to take part in the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books for the first time. I’ve heard lots of great things about it over the years, and this time around the ever-kind John Klima (of Electric Velocipede fame) invited me to take part in the Science Fiction Writers of America‘s slate of programming. …
My Gen Con Schedule
In honor of Dangerous Games: How to Cheat launching today, I’ve updated my schedule at this year’s Gen Con, where the novel is set. This year, the show runs from August 15—18. I’m an Industry Insider Guest of Honor again, 11 years running. I’m also working with the Writer’s Symposium once more. If you can make it down to Indianapolis for the show, be …
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 …
The Dangerous Games Gen Con Writer’s Symposium Contest
The fine folks in charge of my favorite event of the year (Gen Con) have given me two badges to the show to give away in support of the Gen Con Writer’s Symposium. Since Gen Con is the greatest gaming convention in the world, I decided to run a little contest to see who gets them both – one for …
My Gen Con Events – So Far
The event registration for Gen Con 2013 at noon Eastern Time today. I don’t have all of my events slated yet – the Industry Insider Guest of Honor schedule isn’t quite ready – but my Writer’s Symposium events are set. If you’d like to see me at the show, be sure to check out: Thursday, 5 PM: Reading: Matt Forbeck …