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Video Blog: The RPG Social Contract

After some prodding from my wife, I’ll be releasing a series of blogs concerning Role Playing Games, such as reviews, tips, and overall philosophies I have. Instead of my normal blog format, I’ll be doing most of these as videos.

The first of which is my thoughts on the social contract concerning the responsibilities and expectations that players and game-masters agree to when joining or forming a RPG group.

This is a topic I’ve discussed several times over the years with various players an...

Podcast Interviews

It’s been a productive month. Redemptor (Valducan #4) is done and currently going through Beta readers. I plan to have the first draft edited and turned in to Ragnarok by month’s end. I’m very happy with how this one has turned out.

For you podcast fans (or anyone interested in hearing my voice) I have two podcast interviews I’ve recently done.

First, I’m over at The Arm Cast Podcast chatting with Armand Rosamilia.

Next, I stopped by The Grim Tidings Podcast with fellow Ragnarok author Kenny...

Signing Events and Other News

For anyone in the Dallas Forth Worth area, I’ll be at the Highland Village Barnes &Noble this Saturday, October 22, from 2-4. Come by, say, “Hello,” and get your books signed.

If you can’t make it to that, I’ll also be appearing at the Lewisville Texas Barnes & Noble on Saturday, November 12, from 1-3. I’d love to see you.

In other news, pre-orders for Cohesion Press’ SNAFU: Black Ops anthology are now available. Inside you’ll find my Valducan story “Raid on Wewelsburg.” Set during the final...

Nine Facts About Sea of Quills

One year ago, my second Black Raven collection Sea of Quills hit the shelves. So in keeping with the tradition with Eleven Facts aboutMountain of Daggers, I want to celebrate witha few bits of trivia about Ahren’s second collection. And being that there are nine stories, it deservesnine fun facts.

**Spoilers Below**

1: Unlike most of the adventures that were written as stand-alones to be released one at a time, the first story, Temptation’s Proposal, was written specifically to be the opening...

Guest Blogs

It’s been quiet on my blog, but I’ve been busy chatting it up on other blogs.

So for anyone that has missed my current blog-storm, you can find them here.

At Beauty in Ruins, you can read about how I came up with some of the unique monsters I used for Dämoren, Hounacier, and the Screamers in Ibenus. I also confess me deep fear of jellyfish.

At The Quillery, I discuss the different genre styles I use between each Valducan novel in order to keep the series fresh.

I paid a visit to RisingShadow...

Ibenus is Out

Ibenus hit the digital shelves today. Kindle editions are now available at Amazon.

While paperbacks started shipping out early last week, this is essentially the release day. Ibenus should begin appearing in bookstores and on Audible September 13th.

But it’s out there. There are no last-second changes or tweaks I can make. It has flown from the nest and become part of the Valducan story.

In the meantime, all I can do is enjoy my funta (The official drink of Ibenus), keep working on Redemptor...

Ibenus Pre-Orders Are Live

Pre-orders are available for Ibenus.

You can find itat Amazon and Barnes &Noble.

Once again, R.C. Bray narrates the Audible edition, which runs 10 hours and 44 minutes of pure awesome.

Amazon jumped the gun and started shipping some paperbacks a little early (I can only assume they were excited about it, as well). It was a bit of a surprise when a fan tweeted me about their shipping notice.

The first reviews are coming in, which is always wonderful…and honestly, a bit terrifying. It’s a stra...

A Tale of Three Review Platforms or: Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Audible

We all know that reviews are important for authors. If you didn’t know that, then allow me to tell you that reviews are important for authors. For many new and lesser-known authors (like me) they can be the lifeline to new readers and to sales. That means that authors spend way more time than they should worrying about and analyzing reviews. There’s manyplatformsthat people use to rate and review books, but three of them (at least for me) stand head and shoulders above the rest. So today I’m...

Audiobooks You Should Hear

As I’ve said many times before, I’m an audio book addict. Listening to a book has become my standard entertainment while driving or working on some simple task that would prevent normal reading or watching something. Audio books are the fastest growing market and frequently I’m asked which onesI’d recommend. So here’s a list of my most regularly recommended audio books and why.

World War Z

Written by: Max Brooks

Performed by: Full Cast

I was fortunate enough to have read this book right when...

Writing Update: Edits and Pre-Orders

I’ve been quiet on my writing updates recently. Time to correct that.

Ibenus has completed its first found of edits. We’ll be making a few more passes to get it all nice and polished. I will say that reading it for the first time in months was a funexperience. I really like this one and I look forward to hearing reader responses. Release date is still set for September 2016. Paperbackpre-order is available on Amazon.

Layout by Shawn King

Dämoren is going through its final revisions as well f...