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December 4, 2015
Gaslight fan comic!
Beautiful and wrenching. Broke my heart, and they’re my damn words; you’d think I’d be immune. Serious mega spoilers for one of the endings!
November 20, 2015
Announcing Choice by Gaslight!
I am delighted to announce that A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight is now available from the Choice of Games Hosted Games program. Look at its beautiful cover art! Unlike my other co-authored Choice of Games titles (Broadsides, Zombies, and the Affairs of the Court trilogy), Gaslight is my first solo endeavor. It’s an [...]
March 3, 2014
Forward Momentum!
HBO has dramatized A Game of Thrones; Starz in the process of doing the same with Outlander; and I hear rumors of both a Farscape and an Honor Harrington feature film. Since it seems we’ve evolved as a society to the point where we can produce good adaptations of sprawling SF stories with large casts [...]
January 21, 2014
We waited two years for that?
I’ve said several times now that I want to be Steven Moffat when I grow up. The ambition seems more achievable after Sunday night. It’s nice of him to drop the bar so low. This man gave us Jekyll, “A Study In Pink,” “Blink,” “The Empty Child,” and “The Silence in the Library.” The first [...]
January 14, 2014
My schedule for Arisia 2014!
I am crazy excited to be an official program participant at Arisia this year! You can find me at: Saturday 7pm: Narratives and Counternarratives A panel about paying homage to old stories and figuring out how to deal with their sexist and racist baggage, moderated by Mikki Kendall, and featuring Daniel Josè Older, Walt Williams, [...]
December 23, 2013
Folks! In celebration of the holiday season, and the firs...
Folks! In celebration of the holiday season, and the first anniversary of Timekeeper’s publication, I hereby declare A SALE: between now and January 5th, both Timepiece and Timekeeper will be 99 cents! If you’ve been delaying sampling the wares of my imagination, now’s the time!
October 14, 2013
At long last, pictures from the Boston Festival of Indie Games
I don’t have a visual imagination, but my friend Eileen does, and she suggested the three-level pedestal for the roses, title card, and bowl of chocolate hearts. I ended up making them out of old textbooks draped with cloth. Out of social psychology, marketing, and operations management textbooks, specifically. Which made me grin a [...]
September 4, 2013
Time Travel with the Cellophane Queen
It’s Time Travel Month on The Cellophane Queen’s blog! I and several other writers of time travel and alternate histories will be contributing posts on the subject, and it promises to be a wild ride! We’ll be telling you about an Emerald Isle still ruled by Irish kings, the real fate of the Princes in [...]
August 16, 2013
April 4, 2013
The Mysterious Doctor Quin
My recent Doctor Who re-watch got as far as “The Unicorn and the Wasp” this past week, and I adored it as much this time as I did the last time. It takes a particular kind of brain to distill a story-archetype into its component elements and then use those elements in a way that [...]
