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Dev Talk: Indie Development, Game Journalism, and Straddling the Fence

If folks have been wondering why I’ve been so quiet lately, it’s because I’ve had my head down and been hard at work on a new side project: launching my newindie game studio, Touchfight Games, with a few good friends. Today, I’m making the news official: I’m diving head-firstinto the exciting and crazy world of indie game development, and I couldn’t be more excited. What does this mean for my long-time freelancecareer as a game journalist and my future book projects? What games am I working o...

Shop Talk Interviews: Episode 1 – Andrew Groen on kickstarting his new Eve Online history book

In this debut installment of Shop Talk Interviews, I talk with long-time game journalist Andrew Groen about the massive Kickstarter success off his new book project: A History of the Great Empires of Eve Online. We chatabout the project, cover some tipson how to run a slick bookKickstarter campaign, and also briefly touch on turning long-form articles into books.

If you like the show, stay tuned! I’ll be having other special interviews in the near future on a sporadic basis. You can also tune...

Join The New Freelance Game Journo Network Facebook Group!

For a long time now, I’ve been meaning to build a place online where the many awesome game journalists, freelancers, and writerfolks I interact with on a one-on-one basis can freely interact with one another! Many of you have the same questions, challenges, and obstacles, and it makes super sense to me to introduce everyone to each other so we can share insights and grow together as a community!

That’s why I finally created theFreelance Game Journo Network. It’s a private Facebook group that’s...

Pay What You Want for Freelance Writing Hacks Audiobook + PDF Bundle!

Grab the PDF + Audiobook bundle via Gumroad for ANY price (yes, even for $0 if you choose)

Hey, awesome humans of the Internet! I’m running a special today! You can instantly download a PDF and Audiobook bundle of my third Game Journo Guides Series book - Freelance Writing Hacks: 55 Tips For Word Mercenary Success for ANY price you want!

Here’s the quick skinny!

This bundle is normally priced at $4.99, which is way cheap considering the crazy time and energy I poured into writing the book, narra...

The Freelance Game Podcast Ep 7 – Interview with Francesca Reyes (OXM)

The world of gaming print magazines continues to change at a rapid pace,which is why we’re psychedto have former Official Xbox Magazine Editor in Chief Francesca Reyes asourspecial guest on The Freelance Game podcast this week.Fran drops some knowledgeon developing good freelancer-editor relationships and digs into a wide range of print-related topicsin this lengthy and informative episode! Also: apologies for the sporadic audio blips during the Interview. Skype was being a bit naughty, but d...

The Freelance Game Podcast Ep 6 — Hitting The Panic Button!

We’ve all had moments of panic in our freelance careers. Those terrifying days you wake up and suddenly discover that half of your steady workload has evaporated in a split second. Or maybe a majoroutlet you write for is shutting down. Or an importantfreelance budget is being cut. Or a killer editor you love working with has just been laid off. Or all of the above! In this episode, we talk about some of the setbacks we’ve faced as freelancers — both in the distant and more recent past — and h...

I want your feedback! Help me out by taking the Game Journo Guides Reader Survey!

Hey awesome people, readers, blog visitors, and other assorted humans!I need your help! As I continue plugging away at writing upcoming books and creating other future projects, I’d really love to get your input on what kinds of topics you’d like me to cover next in upcoming guides, what your thoughts are on specific formats, and what challenges you struggle with. The more info I can get, the better I can tailor my next few projects to better suit your needs.

If you haven’t checked out my Game...

Shop Talk: The First Graph From Hell

Staring at a blank screen, knowing you have to make word magic happen is frustrating when you’re on deadline andthings aren’t clicking as fast as you need them to. It’s even worse whenyou havea sense of what you want to say, yet reaching for the specific words leaves you grasping at the empty nether.I’m in one such predicament myself. In this case, it’s with a game review that is in desperate need of writing STAT! In fact, I find that mental long jams pop-up most frequently for me when I’m wr...

Shop Talk: Writing A Book – How Hard is it REALLY? (Part I)

This is the first post in a multi-part series exploring thebehind-the-scenes elements of self-publishing and ebook creation. Something new for ye olde blog! Enjoy!

Writing a book. I know, it sounds daunting, especially if you’ve never written one before. Traditionally speaking, a book length non-fiction work can run anywhere from 50,000 to 75,000+ words. If you’re used to bashing out articles that cap out around 1,000 words MAX, the thought of stretching that out times 70 can be terrifying, ev...

Shop Talk: The Challenges of Launching a Book 100% DIY

Today, I’m celebrating the launch of my third book in the Game Journo Guides Series — Freelance Writing Hacks: 55 Tips For Word Mercenary Success — out now for $2.99 on Kindle and PDF or $4.99 for a cool Audiobook+PDF bundle! Whee! But rather than ramble on about what the book is about and why you should check it out (you can read that at the link above), I wanted to spend a few moments talking about what it’s like launching a niche book like this as a self-published author.

Momentum is a fick...