Sometimes when I tell people about the 12 for ’12 challenge, they say, “Hey, that’s like doing a NaNoWriMo every month!” National Novel Writing Month is an annual challenge that writers can accept in which they try to write 50,000 words over the course of a month. It’s been happening every November since 1999, and last year over 250,000 people joined in the …
Cool Kickstarters
While I’m not running a Kickstarter of my own at the moment – and have no plans for one till at least the end of the year – I am involved in a few of them and am backing some others that deserve wider attention. If you want to keep up with what I’m looking at on Kickstarter, you can …
On the Once and Future Podcast
I had a great time chatting with fellow author and tabletop gamer Anton Strout on his Once and Future Podcast yesterday. The conversation ranged all over the place, mostly covering games, fiction, and other kids of geeky fun. You can listen to the entire thing at your leisure.
Games on eBay
My son Marty is saving up for some cool things, so he’s ransacked my closets once again, looking for good gaming things that I don’t use anymore to sell. He has twenty things up there now. They’re mostly Dungeons & Dragons 3E stuff, including a pack of Eberron books, as well as the Forgotten Realms setting book and some system add-on books like the …
Geekerati Tonight! Google Hangout Thursday!
I’ll be on the Geekerati radio show tonight with hosts Christian Lindke and Shawna Benson. Listen live starting at 8:30 PM Pacific. If you can’t make that, don’t fret, the podcast version will get posted soon after that. I’m also planning to self-host a Google Hangout on Thursday. Come watch me make a fool of myself and try to answer questions …
Join Me for an IRC Event Tonight
Tonight at 7 PM Central, Dan Davenport is going to host an IRC (internet relay chat) event with me as the guest. As Dan writes: To join, go to http://www.magicstar.net/chat2/, select your nick, log in, and type “/join #rpgnet”. I’ll be open to chatting about any of my projects – past, present, and future – so please join me for the …
Writing Standing Up
After thinking about it on and off for a few years, I finally took the plunge last night and set myself up with a standing desk at which I can write. In fact, I’m typing these words at it right now, and so far it’s all right. My feet hurt, but I’m told that goes away in a few days. …
ENies Nominations Are Out
The nominations for the ENnies – the fan-based tabletop RPG awards from ENWorld.org that are handed out at Gen Con – were announced earlier today. The list is long and filled with great games and related things. Among them, two things I worked on that came out last year earned a few nods. Tales of the Far West – a short story …
2nd Dangerous Games Stretch Goal Unlocked!
We smashed through the second Dangerous Games stretch goal last night. This means that anyone who backs this drive at the $75+ level gets not only the regular reward but free standard ebook editions of the Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World and Shotguns & Sorcery trilogies. That’s a total of nine ebooks, plus a printed Dangerous Games omnibus! Thanks to everyone who made this happen! I don’t …
Reddit AMA on Sunday
This Sunday, May 27, I’ll be taking part in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Reddit. The thread should be up in the RPG section early Sunday afternoon. Just jump in and start shooting out questions, and I’ll stop by to answer them in between writing sprints on the Leverage novel I’m writing. I’ve never done one of these …