The last anthology in my trilogy of recent write-ups is GI Joe: Tales from the Cobra Wars. This is a re-release of the book that came out from IDW a couple years ago as a trade paperback, but this time it’s being brought out as both a mass-market paperback and an ebook in partnership with Open Road Media. The book was …
All Sorts of Shorts: The Lion and the Aardvark
When Robin Laws asked me to pitch him a story for The Lion and the Aardvark – one of two books from his Stone Skin Press I have a story in – he called it Aesop 3.0. He wanted short and sweet story with clear messages, post-modern fables for a post-modern age. I wrestled with a number of different ideas for the story, …
All Sorts of Shorts: The New Hero 2
Two fresh anthologies and a revamped one either hit shelves in the recent past or are just about to appear, and I have a story in each of them. First up, we have two books from the all-new Stone Skin Press, which is run by my pal Robin Laws. Robin’s a fantastic game designer, but it turns out he has …
More Bundle of Holding to Love
With just nine days left to grab the Bundle of Holding, another bonus book has been added to the package. Bundle founder Allen Varney steps up with Stay Alert, the first of his novels based upon the classic RPG Paranoia, the hilarious roleplaying game of dystopian treachery. This brings the grand total of the number of books in the full bundle to …
Bundle of Holding Got Bigger
The Bundle of Holding is only a few days old, but it’s already doing pretty well. Despite a few Day-One glitches, it brought in a lot of buyers and made a good chunk of change for both Child’s Play and Reading Is Fundamental so far. One of the biggest surprises is how generous the donors have been. We started out …
Hard Times Hardcopies on Sale Now
With the help of my friends at DriveThruFiction.com, I just flipped the switch, and you print junkies out there can now order print-on-demand hardcopies of Hard Times in Dragon City from them. Hardcovers are $15, and softcovers are $10 each. They come complete with a free copy of the ebook editions in DRM-free ePub, Kindle, and PDF formats. Of course, if …
There’s a Bundle on the Horizon
This Wednesday, keep your eyes peeled for the Bundle of Holding, a bundle of fiction ebooks written by tabletop game designers (like me). It’s going to make for a fantastic deal, and it’ll include one of my novels in the pack. Tabletop game designers spend their days building worlds and adventures for other people to play in. They come up …
Bad Times Out to Backers
While I’m getting the Kickstarter editions of Bad Times in Dragon City out to my backers, I’m also prepping the files for the release of the standard edition of the book. At the moment, that’s scheduled for March 5, and I hope to have print-on-demand options ready by then too. To whet your appetite, here’s a look at the book’s cover, along …
Gambling with Alas Vegas
My pal James Wallis is a tabletop gaming legend. Among many other things, he co-created the wonderful Once Upon a Time card game; he wrote and published one of the first story-driven roleplaying games, The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen; and he launched the much-loved Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming. He’s been off doing other things for a while, but he’s …
(Cover) Credit Where It’s Due
My friend Joe W. Martin oversaw the principal photography of the Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World short that debuted at Gen Con a few years ago. It’s a great piece of work, and you can see it below. Joe dropped me a note today to ask if he’d been credited for the photos on the covers of the books. I checked to …