Ken Cliffe at White Wolf asked me to write an adventure for Ghost Stories, an anthology of short adventures for the upcoming World of Darkness roleplaying game, the core rulebook for their reboot of their original games, Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, and so on. I jumped all over it. Justin Achilli played mule for Ken and handed me a CD with …
OATF Moving Along
The Origins Awards Task Force has sucked up much of my past week. Many people have lots of great ideas for the Origins Awards, and sorting through them is a Herculean task. Plus, there are some political landmines strewn about the place in the wake of the election of a nearly all-new GAMA board of directors at Origins last month, …
Origins Award Task Force
Any minute now, there should be an official press release about this, but I’m going to jump the gun and start talking about it here. The new board of GAMA, the Game Manufacturers Association, has hired me to lead a task force charged with improving the function of the Origins Awards. These are the adventure gaming industry’s premier set of …
Diana Jones Shortlist Announced
The Diana Jones Award shortlist has been posted at www.DianaJonesAward.org. (Academy chair Nicole Lindroos was kind enough to allow the DJA committee to make its first official announcement at the Origins Awards ceremony on June 24.) The award will be given out at a ceremony on August 18 at Gen Con in Indianapolis. I’m one of the few publicly known …
Back from Origins
I had a great time at Origins. All of my seminars went well. The attendees asked sharp questions, and my fellow panelists were a joy to work with. I spent a lot of time in the Green Ronin booth, showing people how to play Dracula’s Revenge, the new board game I developed for Human Head Studios. At the Origins Awards …
Lots of Little Things
This week, I managed to take care of a bunch of smaller things. These include: An entry in Hungry Little Monsters, the next charity jam book from Sean K. Reynolds, my coauthor on Unapproachable East. A couple of articles for Games Quarterly Magazine. An essay for the latest edition of Warzone from Excelsior Entertainment. . An essay for the second …
Origins Begins
Next week, I’m off to the Origins Game Expo. I’ll be running demos of Dracula’s Revenge at the Green Ronin booth. I’m also helping out with some seminars: 6/24, 10 AM: Freelancing for Beginners. 6/24, 1 PM: Game-Related Fiction. 6/24, 2 PM: Intermediate Level Freelancing. 6/25, 10 AM: Freelance Writing for d20. 6/25, 3 PM: Origin of a Game. 6/27, …
Dragon Page Turned
I just finished the interview with Michael and Evo at The Dragon Page Radio Talk Show. The guys were easy with this rookie, and I had a great time. The show’s topic was young adult fantasy and science-fiction novels like my upcoming Secret of the Spiritkeeper, due out in August from Wizards of the Coast. The Dragon Pagers allowed me …
Dragon Page Tonight!
This is short notice, I know, but I just got asked to be on Dragon Page, a radio show about science-fiction and fantasy. The show airs live tonight at 6 PM Phoenix time, 9 PM Eastern. Go to www.dragonpage.com for details about how to listen in locally or over the internet.
Back from BookExpo America
I went to BookExpo America last weekend, and I had a great time. Probably the best part was when Peter Archer, the managing editor of the novel department at Wizards of the Coast asked me how my Eberron novel was coming along, and I told him I’d turned it in the night before.