Games Quarterly Magazine is now available in PDF format through DriveThruRPG.com. Right now, you can pick up issue #8 for only $1.99, half off the retail price for the print edition. I’ve written an article for every issue to date, and in #8 I chronicled my meeting with model, actress, and game designer (how often do you hear those labels …
Random Lies in Print
My article about Daryl Hannah and Hilary Shepard‘s new game LIEbrary showed up in the mail today. It’s in the latest issue (#8) of Games Quarterly Magazine, and it dishes about Hannah’s love for games and dice, along with how she cost me my job and saved my marriage.
Daryl Hannah–Game Designer
I just completed an article for Games Quarterly Magazine about Daryl Hannah and Hilary Shepard’s new board game LIEbrary. (It’s their second published effort, believe it or not.) It tells the true story of how Daryl Hannah cost me my job and saved my marriage. You’ll have to wait until GQM #8 hits stands this spring to find out exactly …
Games Quarterly Magazine #7 and National Games Week
My copies of Games Quarterly Magazine #7 showed up in the mail the other day. I wrote an article about gaming-related fiction for it, which appears on p. 70. It also features articles from James Ernest, Jeff Tidball, Ken Hite, and Mike Selinker, along with interviews of Kevin Siembieda (of Palladium) and Loren Greenwood (of Wizards of the Coast) and …
Gen Con Report
I’ve been trying to get to this for days, and I realized I just need to take a flying dive at it right now rather than wait for the right moment to tackle it. So, here goes.
Games Quarterly #5 Online Now
The latest issue of Games Quarterly Magazine is available for downloading now. Print copies should show in mailboxes and in better game stores everywhere soon. If you dig through it, you should be able to find an article I wrote on Peter Adkison’s new company (Hidden City Games) and its new game (Clout Fantasy). It’s a collectible game, but instead …
Games Quarterly 4 Shipping
I just got my copies of Games Quarterly Magazine #4 in last week. It features a short article I wrote about Patch Products, a family game company here in my hometown of Beloit, Wisconsin. If you can’t find a copy, just be patient. It’s usually available for download within a week or two of hitting store shelves.
Happy New Year!
Whew! We’re only five days into 2005, and it already seems like it’s flying by. I managed to complete the outlines for my next four novels (which is staggering to think about), and now I’m waiting to hear back from Wizards about the outline for my next Eberron book so I can get to actually writing it. I’m looking forward …
Holiday Update
I finished the first draft of my Blood Bowl novel yesterday, just in time to take a few days off for Christmas. Whew! Next up, I’m revising my outline for the second book in my Eberron trilogy. Then I’ll revise the outlines for my next two books in the Knights of the Silver Dragon series. After that, it’s the outline …
National Games Week
Mark Simmons, the man behind the Games Quarterly Catalog and Games Quarterly Magazine, has launched a brilliant new idea: National Games Week. It’s to be held the week of November 21 through 27, right through Thanksgiving. It’s the perfect time to break out a game to play with those relatives you barely ever see. You can find out more at …