Hello! Thanks for dropping in. A few months ago, my daughter Alex pestered me into running some D&D for her. I told her to find some players, so she recruited her friend Olive and her sister Hannah for the party. At that point, I was pretty much committed. I thought hard about which edition to …
MobiCon,Writing Updates
Hello! A couple of quick updates for folks . . . Going (to) Mobile I’m heading down to MobiCon in Mobile, Alabama over Memorial Day weekend. I’ll be giving two talks/Q&A sessions – one on Creating Great Adventures, and the other on Writing Great Space Battles. In addition, I’ll be DMing a D&D game (a …
Emerald City, Scornful Stars Cover
Hi, there! As you might have guessed from my intermittent posts, I’ve been very busy so far this year. I’m just finishing up the first draft of a sprawling new alternate-history novel, plus I’ve been working to assemble some of our follow-on expansions for the Alternity game. The Protostar setting book is at the printer …
December Update, Three Cool Things
Since I’ve finished up my retrospective on my older novels, I find myself looking for a new theme for this blog. Thinking up the next big series of things to talk about sounds kind of hard, though, so I believe I’ll just offer a few quick updates on what I’m doing these days, then move …
17 Novels: Prince of Ravens
Good news: Today the UPS guy dropped off my very own copy of Restless Lightning! The book’s official release is October 23, but this is the first time I’ve been able to hold it in my hands and flip through the pages. I’ve been writing for a long time now, but I don’t mind admitting …
17 Novels: Avenger
Good news! It’s October of 2018, which means the next installment of my Sikander North stories is heading for a bookstore near you. Look for Restless Lightning in your favorite local spot sometime around October 23rd. Four years have passed since Valiant Dust, and Sikander finds himself assigned to a squadron stationed in a distant …
17 Novels: Corsair
Strangely enough, in the two weeks or so since my last post, autumn arrived in the Pacific Northwest with the stealth and subtlety of a runaway train. It always amazes me how fast summer ends around here. Growing up on the East Coast, I think of September as a month where you still get to …
17 Novels: Swordmage
I see that I’ve now interrupted my series of retrospectives looking back on my novels for a good five months, so it’s high time that I returned to the topic. Before I do, let me share a couple of personal updates: First, I’m now working on the rewrite for Scornful Stars, which will be Book …
Gen Con Wrap-Up
I seem to begin a lot of posts with some variation of the expression “I’m back,” but today that’s actually on the mark: after 6 days in Indianapolis for Gen Con, I returned home on Monday of this week and I’ve been resting up (and catching up) for the last couple of days. I wore …
Gen Con and Project Updates
Hey, I’m back! I apologize for disappearing over the last three months, but I found myself super-busy on a couple of different projects and I just felt like I had to zero in on the writing for a bit. I intend to return to more regular posting soon (and maybe finish up my retrospective on …
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