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December 13, 2016
A Waterloo Primer
With only a week to go on the Kickstarter, and less than a month before Timepiece is due to be released, I thought it might be helpful to offer a primer of what (everyone thinks) happened on the field of Waterloo, so you can have it firmly in mind when Timepiece tells you what really […]
December 6, 2016
Where I Get My Ideas
It’s one of those questions we in the creative industry get asked a lot, and the answer is both project-dependent and frequently more complicated than you would think. In the case of Timepiece, though, it’s more straightforward than usual. Timepiece was born when a friend of mine told me about a dream she’d had, in […]
December 2, 2016
Three Lists To Pique Your Interest On A Friday Afternoon
Books I Read For The First Time While Researching Timepiece: Waterloo: A Near-Run Thing by David Howarth Sharpe’s Waterloo by Bernard Cornwall The Age of Napoleon by Alistair Horne The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert Asprey Daily Life in Victorian England by Sally Mitchell Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England by Kristine Hughes […]
November 29, 2016
The Keeping Time Trilogy is now available for pre-order!
(First of all, let me apologize for the garbage “how to write an expository essay” nonsense that was coming from this blog over the last few days. That wasn’t me, obviously. We’ve fixed the security. It shouldn’t happen again.) This is me: You can now pre-order Timepiece (or the whole Keeping Time trilogy if you […]
November 15, 2016
Timepiece has cover art!!!
It’s beautiful, and I could not be happier. Go Stillpoint! It’s on track to be available at the beginning of January. More info here.
September 13, 2016
TimeWatch is now available for pre-order!
History is written by the people with the time machines. And now you can be one of them, via this ridiculously fun RPG created by Kevin Kulp and published by Pelgrane Press. I am proud to have contributed to it. […]
August 9, 2016
The Ennies have spoken. Long live Pelgrane.
I’ve never yet made it to GenCon. Someday. One of these years. I must say I’m particularly sorry to have missed it this year, given what I hear of Kevin Kulp’s awesome MCing of the Ennies. (That is, the “GenCon EN World RPG Awards,” for those of you unfamiliar with the term.) It’s also a […]
March 30, 2016
Exciting news for Timepiece fans!
And, of course, for me. You know how you all keep asking me if I have any plans to a) publish print editions of Timepiece and Timekeeper, and b) write the third book? I now have answers. A) No. But Stillpoint Digital Press does! I have signed on with Stillpoint, and they will be publishing […]
February 18, 2016
Boskone!
Join me at Boskone (February 19-21, 2016) in Boston, MA for New England’s longest running science fiction and fantasy convention. It’s going to be a fun weekend filled with books, film, art, music, gaming, and more. For more information about Boskone, check out The Boskone Blog, Twitter, and Facebook. Visit the Boskone website to register. I’ll […]
January 14, 2016
My Arisia Schedule!
Arisia starts tomorrow! Come visit me at: Games and Representation, Friday at 7pm RPG Gaming: Rails versus Sandbox, Saturday at 10am Shifting the Language of SF, Saturday at 1pm The Choice of Games table at the Indie Games Expo, Sunday 11am to 1pm Masculinity and Femininity: Gender in Gaming, Sunday at 7pm Being The Hero [...]
