Jeff Grubb – my co-author for Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon – is busy out there promoting the book while I’m here at home getting ready for a vacation in the Northwoods. The folks at Guildcast recorded a podcast with him last week, in which they discuss some spoilery details about the book. He’s also at Comic-Con, signing and chatting …
Beukes Takes London
Lauren Beukes – author of the excellent Moxyland and Zoo City, and fellow Angry Robot author – is due for a rare visit to London from her home in South Africa. During this, she has a signing at Forbidden Planet on July 29, from 6—7 PM. For this, you can order one of a limited edition of 100 hardcovers of Zoo …
Kickstarting Terrible Character Portraits
My friend Jeff Preston has a new Kickstarter project: 60 Terrible Character Portraits for Creative Commons Release. Despite the title, Jeff’s artwork is the opposite of terrible. Check it out and chip in if it tickles you.
Shadowrun: Spells & Chrome E-Book Out
Sometime back in May, Catalyst Game Labs released its first new fiction anthology for Shadowrun, entitled Spells & Chrome. John Helfers edited the book, and it includes stories from Jason Hardy, Jason Schmetzer, Jean Rabe, Phaedra Weldon, Kevin Killiany, Steven Mohan Jr., Bradley P. Beaulieu, Steve Kenson, Dan C. Duval, Stephen Dedman, Marc Tassin, Jennifer J. Harding, William H. Keith, …
Deadlands: One Shot – Again
The fine folks at Drive Thru Comics have just released the PDF version of Deadlands: One Shot. This was my first published work in comics, and it premiered way back in 1999. I wrote the book and laid out and lettered the book myself. Kevin Sharpe and Richard Pollard provided the pencils, Chris Dreier and Jason Baumgartner worked on the …
Zombify Me
Tomorrow, I’m heading down to Chicago to join the Reactor 88 Studios team for a film shoot. They’re in the middle of creating the proof-of-concept short for the InSpectres movie, and they need someone to play the zombie. Sorry: “living-impaired individual.” That’s me. I know. If you’ve seen me stumbling about on a Saturday morning at a convention, you’ll say …
The InSpectres Teaser
Reactor 88 Studios just released this teaser for its upcoming proof-of-concept short for a film based on the InSpectres roleplaying game by Jared Sorensen. Reactor 88 plans to show off the short at this summer’s Gen Con. If you’re there and care to join us, the big event is Friday, August 6, at 7:30 PM in the Westin, Capitol III. …
Transformative Experiences
Over at Suvudu.com, a number of excellent authors talked about their memories of and experiences with the Transformers. That list includes Jason Blair, Jennifer Brozek, Tobias Buckell, Will Hindmarch, Aaron Rosenberg, and myself among many others. This is, of course, part of an elaborate plot to promote the release of Transformers: Exodus, written by my friend Alex Irvine. Be sure …
My Gen Con Schedule
Gen Con just posted the schedule for the Industry Insider Guests of Honor. Once again, I’m honored to be such a guest, and a number of fantastic game designers are joining me, namely Steven Charbonneau, Michael Elliott, Steven Ellis, Mike Gray, David Hill, Eric Lang, Brian Lewis, Stan!, Owen K.C. Stephens, Jeff Tidball, and Bryan Tillman. Combine this with the stuff I already have set up, and I have ten events …
Gibson on Futures and Writing
William Gibson (author of Neuromancer among many other fantastic books) spoke at this year’s BEA about how how the Future as we once knew it is over. We caught up with it and live in an eternal and evolving now. In science-fiction – the great harbinger of the Future – stories about the Future rarely have really been. As he …