Over on his blog, Lucien Soulban asks about novel pitches and submissions, “How do you approach submissions and is rejection our constant companion?” Among the other excellent answers, I replied: It’s always a crapshoot. Not only do you have to have a great idea, but it has to be one that catches the editor’s attention, hasn’t been done before (or …

I just made my reservations for Comic-Con International. It’ll be a quick trip for me. Although the con runs from Wednesday through Sunday, I’m in on Thursday morning and back out on Saturday night. While I’m there, I’ll be on a panel or two and sit in at a book signing. If you’ll be there, be sure to drop on …

Game designer (and good guy) TS Luikart waxes well on how fame works in the role-playing game industry. (He also name-checks me in a kind way.)

ICv2.com posted an article today about Palladium Books and how it’s working to overcome its “Crisis of Treachery.”

Gen Con has posted a page with the “Industry Insider Guests of Honor,” among which I apparently rank. Just scroll on down past James Ernest’s shining face to spot my entry. I’ll be helping out with some seminars at the show, although the schedule for those hasn’t been set yet. I’ll be sure to post here when I know more.

As I mentioned a few weeks back, Palladium Books is in trouble due to some insider swindling on the part of one of its employees. At the time, Kevin Siembieda asked people to help out by purchasing an exclusive print entitled “Megaverse United.” I slapped down my virtual cash right away, and my autographed print showed up yesterday, #296 in …

It’s inevitable that people who work for a game company sometimes leave. Maybe they got laid off, maybe they left on their own. Lots of times they leave the industry for good, but just as often, it seems, they find some way to stick around and keep working at having fun. By way of example, check out Crafty Games and …

I’ve been tinkering with the site again. If you look at the bottom of each post, you’ll see a pair of new icons. If you click on the printer icon, the post reformats into an easy-to-print style. If you click on the e-mail icon, a pop-up window allows you to send the content of the post to a friend. At …

Fantasy Flight is having a Memorial Day weekend sale on its website. Among the roleplaying game books available for only $5 each is Dragonstar: Guide to the Galaxy, of which I wrote a good-sized chunk. It’s a great price for that book, and you could pick up a number of other neglected tomes while you’re there, like Grimm, Spellslinger, and …

Some sharp-eyed readers may have noticed the site morphing around into different shapes at a moment’s notice as I played with the layout. Last night, I showed my wife a few new templates I was considering, and she said she liked what I already had here. Heeding her advice, I decided to just tweak things around a bit. I changed …