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January 25, 2012
Results From the PARPG Play Test
So @Rolling20s and I were finally able to discuss his visit to SCARAB two weekends ago as well as the results of his play tests of the Probability Angels RPG. As I mentioned last week, the whole concept of attending smaller, regional conventions was scrapped. @Rolling20s ended up leaving the convention and driving north to a house full of friends where he was guaranteed a play test.
First, I want to thank, @celeloriel, @daniel14159, @TheUniverseGM, @cadorette, and @nezumi_hebereke for...
January 18, 2012
Looking Forward
I was hoping to discuss how the most recent convention/play test/Probability Angels RPG marketing thing went, but it's getting late and @Rolling20s is still on the road and I won't be getting a full debriefing in time to write this.
Chalk that up to poor time management on my part. I forgot what day of the week it was due to the three day weekend. That counts as poor time management, right?
Anyway, I do have some information. One play test was undertaken at the convention and the few players...
January 11, 2012
Convention Number Two
Your foot taps nervously on the ice, a light crunch sounding from the ever-present frost sucking onto the floor of the Fortress of Solitude. You've spent the last three months of your afterlife inside of this iceberg, but you still haven't gotten used to it and the cold air molests the back of your neck, your wrists, your face, trying to slither its way into your clothes and freeze you to death.
Jonathan's cavernous voice is echoing all throughout the huge ice chamber and even as your back...
January 4, 2012
The $.99 Price Point in Publishing
There have been a lot of articles recently, and not so recently, about how much e-books should cost. Obviously this will always be up for debate, but over the course of last year somehow Kindle self-publishers landed at $.99 as the correct answer for now.
Why $.99? Well for starters that's the lowest you can go. There's also a lot of allure in those double digits to the right of the decimal point. Something priced at $1 seems, somehow to our brains, to be much more expensive than something...
December 21, 2011
10 Quick Facts About Korea
In light of the breaking news this week that North Korea's weirdly androgynous leader has passed away, I thought I would do everyone a public service and put together ten key facts about Korea so you can seem smart without having to wade through all those newspaper articles.
Korea is believed to have been written between the years 610 and 632.Contrary to popular belief, Muhammad is not believed to have written Korea, instead it is believed that he dictated Korea to his companions, who then...
December 8, 2011
Your Holiday Guide to New York
It's that time of year again, when going below 55th street means participating in a mosh pit and traffic stands still for about four weeks. Ah, yes, the holidays in New York.
I have a handy guide to help you through these times, except when I tried to recreate the old post here for you to read, my website continuously went wonky. Something about one of the pictures being in an old format or…I have no idea. It's been an "Email the Tech Guy" kind of week.
So, this is lame, but I will merely...
November 30, 2011
Why I Hate George Lucas
Over this past weekend, for some reason, Spike TV was on constantly in my apartment. They were airing the entire Star Wars saga over and over again in a continuous loop. I'd head out for errands and come back to watch Luke get de-handed. After a late dinner I watched some Jar Jar. On Sunday I watched the finale of the original while texting with a friend.
It was during this text conversation that we realized that all of the movies would be trotted out, once again, starting this spring…only...
November 23, 2011
Progress in Self-Publishing? Maybe…
I think I spotted a ray of hope for self-publishers this morning.
A lot of days I sit at my computer doing nothing more than trying to get people to pay attention to me. And not in a fun, "Look at me I'm wearing a lampshade on my head!" sort of way. In a repetative, mindless, grind known as cold-emailing.
I have numerous Google Alerts set up for terms that have something to do with my books: "Urban Fantasy," "Independent Reviewers," "Genre Tweaking Novels Where a Ronin Saves a Roman Slave From ...
November 16, 2011
A Poem for NaNoWriMo
It's November, which means it's also National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo for short. During this time hundreds of thousands of wonderful lunatic take on the task of writing an entire novel in one month. I have never participated in this event…because it's freaking nuts. But I do love to support all those taking on this challenge and pursuing their dreams. I usually write a little pep talk each year but this year I did something different. I wrote a poem, in the style of Edgar Allen Poe's "...
November 9, 2011
Probability Angels Role Playing Game
While noodling over the results of sending my friend @Rolling20s to a gaming convention to do some marketing, which you can read about here, a lot of ideas have been tossed around. Some in my head, some with @Rolling20s in conversation, some with my tarot card masseuse.
One very fun idea has taken root and will become a full grown idea tree in the coming months. @Rolling20s and I are going to put together a one-off adventure for him to run at gaming conventions of Probability Angels as a Role ...
