Now that summer’s here, my eldest son Marty is back to posting things on eBay for me once again. It’s hard to keep track of the steam of things he puts up there for auction, but they’re mostly games and books we don’t need around here anymore. This includes some author’s copies of things I worked on, like The Authority RPG (of …

Amazon just announced a new program called Kindle Worlds that allows writers to sign up for no-mess licenses for established fictional worlds to self-publish stories in them. In essence, they’re letting fan-fic writers (amateurs who write such stories for fun) make money off their work. As a writer who’s made a good chunk of money writing official stories for such …

My pals at the Onyx Path have had a hell of a run with their Kickstarters. They’re a bunch of ex-White Wolf employees who’ve licensed the White Wolf tabletop roleplaying games from their current owner – CCP of EVE Online fame – and are busy producing new editions of classic games like Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. For their current Kickstarter …

Yesterday, Blizzard posted a story I wrote for them for StarCraft II, the latest installment of the best-selling real-time strategy (RTS) of all time. It’s called “Lost Vikings,” and its about a unit of terran pilots who try to save their adopted planet by fighting off an alien (zerg) invasion, hoping to delay the attackers long enough for their friends …

As I wrote back on April 22, my friends have lassoed me into joining many of their Kickstarters by putting up some of my work as a stretch goal for their drives. At the moment, I’m involved in four six different drives: Lords of Gossamer and Shadow: I’m creating a new world setting for this RPG. It smashed through that stretch …

My pal Wes Chu is one hell of a sharp writer. I had the honor and pleasure of offering a blurb for his debut novel, The Lives of Tao (available now at better booksellers everywhere), for which I said:  “A fast-paced, high-action SF mix of Jason Bourne meets the Hero’s Journey, jam-packed with dark conspiracies, wild romance, ancient aliens, and a secret, …

This Saturday evening, I’m heading down to Chicago to help my pal Wes Chu celebrate the release of his debut novel, The Lives of Tao. The book came out on Tuesday, so the party is the weekend after, of course. It’s being held at the NV Penthouse Lounge, and you and everyone else you know are cordially invited to attend. Being the …

I haven’t run any Kickstarter drives of my own since last September. Expect that to change soon, but in the meantime, I’ve been asked to help out with a number of other Kickstarters in which my work is either featured or set as a stretch goal. In the past, that’s included: Robin Laws’s Hillfolk James Wallis’s Alas Vegas John Wick’s Wicked Fantasy Savage …

The last issue of the full dozen Magic: The Gathering comics I wrote for IDW hits stores and Comixology today. Along with marvelous artist Martín Cóccolo (with help from Christian Duce and Atilio Rojo), colorist J. Edwin Stevens, and letterer Shawn Lee – plus a fantastic array of stunning cover artists – I’ve helped chronicle the adventures of mage-thief Dack Fayden as …

Last year, Jason Pitre of Genesis of Legend contacted me about editing a fiction anthology based on his upcoming Spark Roleplaying Game. I liked the game and Jason’s ideas for the book, so I signed on. He launched a Kickstarter for the game back on March 12, and today he announced the anthology as a stretch goal for the drive. We’ve …