I’m tired of surfing to read the various websites I keep up with, so I started fiddling around with an RSS newsreader. When I tried syndicating this site, nothing happened. I fiddled around with my Movable Type installation a bit, and bingo! I now have feeds for RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom, and RSD. Or so I think. I’ve only …
Conan Guru, Reporting for Duty
I just took on a gig as the content guru for Conan Properties, the people who own Robert E. Howard’s Conan. I’ll be working with authors, publishers, and other licensors as the arbiter of all things Conan, the original fantasy hero. This should be a blast, as I’ve been a Howard fan since I first stumbled upon his stuff in …
Eisner Dies
Will Eisner, the comic book and graphic novel legend, died on Monday. I only met him once, at a book signing at an American Book Expo where he graciously personalized a copy of Dropsie Avenue for me, but I miss him. He was a master of the sequential art form and did more to bring it respectability and literary weight …
Worlds of D&D
I’ve been spending some time on a new forum set up at WorldsofDnD.com. There’s not too much traffic yet, but a good number of Wizards novelists stop by to post. If you’re interested in discussing Dungeons & Dragons novels with other fans and asking questions of some of your favorite authors, stop by to give it a look.
Currency Matters
My friends at Guardians of Order (publishers of The Authority RPG, of which I wrote the player’s chapter for them) just announced that they had a rotten 2004, mostly due to the plummeting value of the American dollar versus their Canadian version. Because of this, they’re asking people for help by purchasing some of their excellent games now. If you …
Happy New Year!
Whew! We’re only five days into 2005, and it already seems like it’s flying by. I managed to complete the outlines for my next four novels (which is staggering to think about), and now I’m waiting to hear back from Wizards about the outline for my next Eberron book so I can get to actually writing it. I’m looking forward …
LA Bound
Up until a week or so ago, I didn’t have any plans to make it to Gen Con So Cal, despite the wonderful time I had there last year. Then I got a call from a company that wants to fly me out to LA for part of that week for a meeting. I arrive November 30 and depart December …
Comments Working
I built Forbeck.com around Movable Type, a great blogging and content management tool. Like many bloggers, however, spambots inundated my pages with comment spam. I recently upgraded to Movable Type 3.1 so I could implement its new antispam tools. This includes a commenter registration service designed to put a stop to spambots and the like. I had a few issues …
No Comments
I’ve been getting a ton of spam in the comments sections on this site, so I upgraded to the latest version of Movable Type. It works great at stopping the spam, but it also breaks some of the custom templates I generated for use with the last version of the program. As such, I’ve shut comments off for now. I …
Xbox in the House
As a reward for finishing up the second draft of Marked for Death, the first in my Eberron trilogy, I went out and bought myself an Xbox. Since I left Human Head, I no longer have a PC on which to play games—one of the great benefits of that job. I’m a happy Mac user, but the fact is that …