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Writing update and an Interview

It’s been a while since I posted anything to this blog, hasn’t it?

I’ve been spending my available free-time writing a new book. The likely title (subject to change) is Awake the Mystic Song. It’s a YA fantasy novel and the first in a trilogy. You can read a more about it here.

In honor of Dragonmount.com’s 15th anniversary, somebody on our staff interviewed Jennifer Liang and I. Head over to the site to check it out.

Read the Interview

Writing Retreat

I returned home yesterday from a 5-day writing retreat. I attended along with my writing group based here in my hometown in northern California. We had a great time, better than any of us expected. We rented a house in Ukiah, and it proved to be an amazing place to relax and get some writing done. The house was located within a large, picturesque set of rolling hills. It spread over several hundred acres, which meant we literally couldn’t see another building unless we crossed the property li...

When RPG’s had teeth: The Bard’s Tale

I’ve played a lot of Role Playing Games (RPG’s) over the years, but my all-time favorite remains to be The Bard’s Tale, the very first RPG I ever really played. While I admit that a large part of that is nostalgia, there’s actually some objective reasoning to my argument.

First, let me explain the story. The plot is rather simple and comes nowhere near the complexity of modern games like Final Fantasy or Dragon Age. Instead, the premise of The Bard’s Tale is very simple: The evil wizard Manga...