Just Back

I just spent a week in a cabin on a lake near beautiful and remote Watersmeet, Michigan. The cabin just got electricity in a few years back, and this year marked the introduction of a pump to bring unheated washing (but not drinking) water up from the lake. There are no phones and no internet access. It’s a slice of …

Diana Jones Award Party

Speaking of Gen Con, if you’re an industry professional and have yet to receive a notice about the Diana Jones Award ceremony at Gen Con, drop me an e-mail for the details. For the moment, just reserve some time late on Wednesday, August 9, to join your compadres in celebrating some of the best games of the year.

Games Day Rocks!

I just got back from Games Day Chicago, and I had a wonderful time. The Black Library staff treated me like a star, and I got to sit and chat with all sort of Blood Bowl and general Games Workshop fans. We sold over 100 copies of my books, and I signed every last one of them. As a bonus, …

Games Day Chicago–Tomorrow!

All day tomorrow (July 29), I’ll be at Games Day Chicago, the one-day Games Workshop convention. I’ll be hanging out in the Black Library booth, signing books with my pal and fellow author Mike Lee. I’m told I’ll also help out with a Black Library seminar. In the course of this, there’s a vicious rumor that we’ll ask Blood Bowl …

Comic-Con Report, Day 1 (for me)

Believe it or not, I did survive Comic-Con. Every year I go, it gets bigger, and I wonder if it will ever slow down. It never does. I hear that this year’s attendance may top 125,000 people. Con management actually stopped preregistration in the middle of the show (for those buying one-day tickets later in the show, I presume) and …

The Art of the Schmooze

Yes, I’m back from Comic-Con. It was a blast, and I’ll have a full report soon. In the meantime, here’s a tidbit that’s apropos. On a mailing list for tie-in writers (affiliated with the IAMTW), KeVin Killiany asked about the best ways to look for work at a convention. Many of his fellow writers (including me) chipped in with some …

Last Week’s US News

Although I haven’t seen it yet, I’m told last week’s US News & World Report contains an advertorial for Rockford Memorial Hospital. It features a story, with photos, about our family and the fantastic experiences we had with the hospital before, during, and after the birth of our quadruplets four years ago. As I’ve said before, we rarely do any …

Comic-Con, Here I Come!

I’m taking off tomorrow for sunny San Diego for Comic-Con. My first seminar is on Friday at 11:30 AM in Room 1B: “Competing for the Young Adult Mind with Words and Pictures.” The fabulous Maryelizabeth Hart (of Mysterious Galaxy fame) moderates the panel, and I’ll try to keep up with her and Holly Black (game-industry refugee and Spiderwick Chronicles author), …