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The audiobook edition of BLACKGUARDS is now available for preorder

You can now preorder BLACKGUARDS, an anthology in which I am proud to have a story, from Audible.

http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Blackguards-Audiobook/B00W5YGXUU

2015 Eisner Award nominations (including two for Magnetic Press)

Magnetic Press​, who will be publishing some of my work starting next month, picked up two Eisner Award nominations in its first year of operation. Congrats to them, and good for me for linking up with such a classy outfit.

http://www.comic-con.org/awards/2015-eisner-award-nominations

Check out the Kickstarter for WITCH HUNTER: GRAND TOME OF ADVERSARIES

Check out this Kickstarter for a new RPG product. One of the Stretch Goals is a new story by me.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1418216834/witch-hunter-grand-tome-of-adversaries-rpg-sourceb

THE FALL OF CTHULHU is available

According to Amazon, the anthology THE FALL OF CTHULHU has been available for a month. How did that slip past me? Anyway, I have a story in it, and I hope you'll check it out.

http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Cthulhu-Horrifi…/…/ref=sr_1_cc_2…

2015 Convention Plans

Convention plans pretty much finalized for 2015. Barring catastrophe, I will definitely be at the World Horror Convention/Bram Stoker Awards Weekend, Oasis, Gen Con​, Dragon Con, and Necronomicon Convention​. Hope to see many of you fine people at one or another of them.

Table of Contents for CTHULHU FHTAGN

Here's the Table of Contents for the anthology CTHULHU FHTAGN coming from Word Horde in August. I'll have a story in it, and I'm proud to be part of this excellent list of writers.

http://wordhorde.com

I will have a story in WHISPERS FROM THE ABYSS VOLUME TWO

I'm delighted to say that I'll have a humorous (at least I hope it's humorous) Lovecraftian story in the anthology WHISPERS FROM THE ABYSS VOL. 2, due later this year from 01 Publishing.

I will have a story in CTHULHU FHTAGN!

I'm delighted to announce that I will have a story in the anthology CTHULHU FHTAGN!, edited by Ross E. Lockhart​ and coming from Word Horde in August. The book is going to have a great lineup including Molly Tanzer, Jesse Bullington, Mike Griffin, Anya Martin, Scott R. Jones, and Ted E. Grau​.

I'll be writing a SHADOW OF THE DEMON LORD story

I see that the SHADOW OF THE DEMON LORD Kickstarter has hit the Stretch Goal that is a new short story by me. I'm excited to get a chance to play in this cool new dark fantasy universe.

If you haven't gotten around to checking out the Kickstarter yet, you can do that via this link:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/432417423/shadow-of-the-demon-lord

A fencing tip

Here's a tip for all my fellow fencers.

Today, my performance at the salle was spotty. I had my moments, but I was missing a lot of hand, wrist, and forearm short attacks and counterattacks. (I'm an epeeist.) And my game incorporates a lot of those. When I pick them up, I tend to win, and when I miss them, I tend to lose.

Anyway, in my frustration, I did what any experienced fencer would do. I blamed my equipment.

This was easy to do because I was fencing with a new weapon, or at least, new in the Frankenstein sense. It was newly assembled from the good pieces of weapons that had lived and died before it. Really, it felt pretty good in my hand, but a smidge heavier and stiffer than I think is ideal, so there was my excusee for blaming it.

Anyway, when I got up for my last bout of the day, against one of the better fencers in my club, I told it, "If you don't get some hand touches for me this time, you're going to Backup Weapon status. You're going back in the bag and not coming out again for a long while."

After which I scored a number of hand touches and won the bout.

So the moral is clear, fencers. If things aren't going well, threaten your weapon.