Last year, my pal Tony Lee of Timeout Diversions ran a Kickstarter to launch a new edition of Sovereign Stone, a tabletop roleplaying game set in a world created by fantasy art legend Larry Elmore. Larry had a lot of fantastic help with the earlier editions, including rules from Don Perrin and novels by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. This …
Grab the First Shotguns & Sorcery Story Now
Shotguns & Sorcery started out as an idea I had for a new setting for a fantasy roleplaying game. Back in 2001, I licensed the concept to Mongoose Publishing in a sweet deal that would have seen me writing an entire line of d20 (Dungeons & Dragons-compatible) books. And then my wife became pregnant with quadruplets. (Yeah, I know. Writers. …
My Disney Trip
Last month, Corrina Lawson of Geek Dad/Geek Mom had to drop out of a planned junket to Disney Studios. I wound up going in her place and had a wonderful time. Not only did I get a guided tour of the inside of both the Disney Animation Studios and Disney Toon Studios–both of which are normally closed to the public–I …
The Crossing the Streams Reddit AMA
As you might recall, I’m running a month-long contest here as part of the multi-author Crossing the Streams mega-contest of DOOOOOM! (In which said doom involves the ability to win dozens of autographed books from some of the best genre writers around.) As part of that, a bunch of us Crossing the Streams authors are taking part in an AMA …
Goodbye, Aaron Allston
I got the terrible news last night that Aaron Allston died earlier in the day. From what I can piece together, he’d arrived in Branson, Missouri, to be a guest of honor at VisionCon this weekend, where he collapsed and was taken to the hospital but did not recover. Our mutual friend Allen Varney posted an excellent obituary for Aaron last night. Go …
A Sojourn with Fear the Boot
Last week, the folks behind the Fear the Boot podcast–on which I’ve appeared a couple times–released their first ever anthology of fiction: Sojourn, edited by Laura K. Anderson and Ryan J. McDaniel, with a great deal of help from Fear the Boot’s Dan Repperger. I’m proud to have a story in the book, along with Laura K. Anderson Thomas Childress Wayne Cole …
Crossing the Streams, AGAIN!
Back in 2012, Ari Marmell came up with this great idea for a bunch of authors to run simultaneous contests to help promote each other’s books. He called it Crossing the Streams, and it involved each author running their own contest, plus a united contest that gave a book from each writer to the grand-prize winner. It was both successful …
Off to Disney to Get Frozen
Last week, Corrina Lawson–one of my fellow writers at GeekDad.com–had to bow out of a bloggers’ trip to visit Disney Studios and write about some of their upcoming releases, including Frozen. When she asked for volunteers to substitute for her, my hand shot up. Corrina wrote about the trip over at GeekDad.com. As she says: Next week, I’ll be traveling to …
Monster Thanks for a Monster Debut
As you may know by now, Monster Academy: I Will Not Eat People had a fantastic debut on Tuesday! It spiked straight to the #1 spot on DriveThruFiction.com, and over at Amazon, it drove as high as #17 on the Bestselling Children’s Sword & Sorcery ebooks list, and it’s currently sitting at #3 in that category’s Hot New Releases list. The sale …
2014 Conventions, So Far
It’s 2014 already, so it’s time to start talking about new conventions again. So far, I’m committed to two conventions: Nexus Game Fair Milwaukee, WI. June 19—22. This is a new show but with a lot of familiar faces, including Harold Johnson, Jolly Blackburn, Mike Carr, Chris Clark, Zeb Cook, Jeff Easley, Ernie Gygax, Dave Kenzer, James Lowder, Frank Mentzer, …