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July 15, 2010
Angry Robot on the Air!
I have the coolest publishers.
The Angry Robot podcast launched today, hosted by the excellent and talented Mur Lafferty. Listen in and hear Mur interview the Angry Robots themselves: Marc Gascoigne and Lee Harris. Also be sure to check out the official Angry Robot theme song by John Anealio, which heads off the episode.
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July 14, 2010
Guild Wars at Comic-Con, But Not Me
Earlier this month, I decided I was going to skip Comic-Con this year. I love the show, and I'll miss seeing all of my friends there. However, Gen Con was bumped up a week, so there's only a week and a half between it and Comic-Con this summer. I'm going to be spending a good part of that time in a cabin in the woods with my family instead. As a bonus, Ann and the kids are coming down to Gen Con for a couple days too so they can play games and "see Daddy be famous."
If you're going to...
July 13, 2010
Deadlands: One Shot — Again
The fine folks at Drive Thru Comics have just released the PDF version of Deadlands: One Shot. This was my first published work in comics, and it premiered way back in 1999. I wrote the book and laid out and lettered the book myself. Kevin Sharpe and Richard Pollard provided the pencils, Chris Dreier and Jason Baumgartner worked on the inks, and Matt Tice and Chris Impink tackled the colors. I was president of Pinnacle Entertainment Group at the time, and we published it through Image...
July 9, 2010
Zombify Me
Tomorrow, I'm heading down to Chicago to join the Reactor 88 Studios team for a film shoot. They're in the middle of creating the proof-of-concept short for the InSpectres movie, and they need someone to play the zombie. Sorry: "living-impaired individual." That's me.
I know. If you've seen me stumbling about on a Saturday morning at a convention, you'll say it's typecasting. That it's not much of a stretch for me to play a creature with a shambling walk, bloodshot eyes, no voice left, and...
July 8, 2010
The InSpectres Teaser
Reactor 88 Studios just released this teaser for its upcoming proof-of-concept short for a film based on the InSpectres roleplaying game by Jared Sorensen. Reactor 88 plans to show off the short at this summer's Gen Con. If you're there and care to join us, the big event is Friday, August 6, at 7:30 PM in the Westin, Capitol III. I hear there will be an afterparty at the SubTerra Lounge, the same place we used after the Brave New World: Revolutions debut last year. Hope to see you there!
...My Family in the News
Yesterday, the Beloit Daily News ran an article on the Welty Environmental Center, a great place out on the edge of town here that's dedicated to teaching people (especially kids) about nature. Ann takes the kids out there regularly in the summer for various classes and activities, and reporter Daniel Thompson showed up while they were there. Read the article to see what Ann has to say about the place, and if you cock your head the right way and peer at the photo that accompanies the text...
July 6, 2010
Release Dates Released
Angry Robot just released its upcoming publishing schedule all the way up to the middle of 2011. This includes my first two original novels, Amortals and Vegas Knights. According to this, Amortals will hit the UK in November 2010, and North America in January of 2011. Vegas Knights storms the UK in March 2011 and North America in April 2011.
To hold you over until then, be sure to look for Guild Wars 2: Ghosts of Ascalon by Jeff Grubb and me. It's due out on July 27, only three weeks away! An ...
July 3, 2010
Back from the Rockies
If it seems like it's been a bit quiet around here, that's because I haven't been around. I spent most of the last two weeks on one of those classic family road trips that American families insist on inflicting upon themselves every summer they can. (Cue up Lindsey Buckingham's "Holiday Road" from National Lampoon's Vacation.)
Ann and I packed the kids into the minivan for a two-day drive out to Colorado, where we spent a night at the house of my cousin Tim Kuhn, a professor at the University ...
Transformative Experiences
Over at Suvudu.com, a number of excellent authors talked about their memories of and experiences with the Transformers. That list includes Jason Blair, Jennifer Brozek, Tobias Buckell, Will Hindmarch, Aaron Rosenberg, and myself among many others. This is, of course, part of an elaborate plot to promote the release of Transformers: Exodus, written by my friend Alex Irvine. Be sure to check it all out.
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July 1, 2010
Free Ghosts of Ascalon Sample
Simon & Shuster has posted a good chunk of the first chapter of Guild Wars 2: Ghosts of Ascalon on its website. The same page also states that the book will be released on or around July 27, 2010. That means it's less than a month until the book is available to you. Pre-orders are open right now, though, so you can plunk down your money for a hardcopy or an e-book version whenever you like. Can't wait for you to read it!
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