Thanks for stopping by! I’ve been busy writing and bus-driving and doing an odd bit of game design here and there. Oh, and I saw my daughter Hannah off to her first year at Central Washington University last month, and my daughter Alex off to a new apartment in north Seattle earlier this month, so …
Back to School!
Hello! I’m back after ten days visiting family. We spent five days in Ocean City NJ (my hometown), and five days in Yorktown VA (the hometown of my lovely wife). Somehow we’d managed to let three years slide by between visits to the East Coast, but we did a pretty good job of making up …
Gen Con Wrap, TORG
Another Gen Con in the bag! I’m back from Indianapolis, and now I’m looking at a short week to get a LOT of things done before taking a personal vacation. A couple of quick updates for you, and a big announcement! More Restless Lightning Looking for the next offering in Sikander North? The mass market …
At Gen Con, Look to the East
Okay, a really short and to-the-point post today: What I’m doing at Gen Con! In general, I’ll be splitting my time between the Sasquatch Game Studio booth (number 265, in the “upper left” corner as you look at the Exhibit Hall map) and running the Alternity Dark Nebula adventure over at the Baldman Games area …
My Top 5 Spells
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 …
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