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May 19, 2010
Angry Robot Finds New Home
While I was out last week, my pals at Angry Robot announced that they'd left the HarperCollins family and joined the growing Osprey flock instead. While this has caused some understandable turbulence in their release schedule, I think this is a fine thing. I was happy to be a HarperCollins author, but with the troubles wracking the publishing industry on a weekly basis HC has been trimming a lot of things, like the experimental and innovative HarperStudio.
A novel (in all senses of the word...
Keeping Back the Wolf
In a post over at Gameplaywright.net, my friend Jeff Tidball celebrates his first year as a full-time freelancer. In his post, he quotes something I said to him a while back:
Day jobs seem permanent, but it's an illusion. Matt said he preferred knowing right where the wolf was all the time, right outside his door. He'd rather dispense with the illusion of permanence and deal with the reality that there are no guarantees.
I still feel that way, and I've been at this for over 20 years now, with a...
May 6, 2010
Full Ghosts of Ascalon Cover
Earlier today, I spotted the full cover for Ghosts of Ascalon on the official Guild Wars 2 wiki. Speaking of which, if you're at all interested in learning more about the upcoming Guild Wars 2 MMO, that wiki is a great place to find a solid collection of the bits that have been announced so far. The entry on the novel, for instance, is filled with good stuff.
While you're at it, be sure to check out the newly launched Guild Wars 2 blog. The game's actual designers are peeling back all sorts...
May 1, 2010
Super Slackers
Ever imagine what might happen if Superman and Lex Luthor lost their jobs and wound up having to live together? Well, wonder no longer. DQniel Kaufman just released a pilot for his new web video series Roommates. Besides Dqniel, it features my friends Miranda Horner as Lois Lane and Mike Selinker in a stunningly funny turn as Mr. Mxyzptlk. Be sure to check it out.
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April 23, 2010
Games and Fiction
I just launched into a new series of articles over at The Escapist. The plan is to sit in the crossroads of games and fiction and toss around a few Molotov cocktails to see what bursts into flames. Having written more than a few games, novels, and gaming novels over the decades, I'm curious to find out.
In this month's column, I cover the history of gaming fiction. It turns out that hobby games and fiction have been rooted together since their very first moments, and we can lay the blame for t...
Booklife on Hite
Over at Booklife, Jeremy Jones interviews Ken Hite about two of his favorite topics: Cthulhu and creativity. The article includes kind quotes about Ken from Will Hindmarch and me. (Since Ken let me crash in his guest room last weekend during C2E2, it was the least I could do.) It's a fun article that captures those specific aspects of Ken's career well. Check it out.
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April 20, 2010
Quiet Storytellers
I just posted "Quiet, Too Quiet," my latest piece for Storytellers Unplugged. In it, I talk about why I haven't been posting too much over there lately, which is the same reason you might see some large gaps in time around here every now and then too. Check it out, and try to be as understanding as you can.
Then maybe I'll write a con report on C2E2. Short Version: I had a great time. Long Version? Coming soon, I hope.
Email this to a friend? Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet...April 18, 2010
Producer Too
Looks like myon the Brave New World: Revolutions film finally cropped up on IMDb.com. I spent a good deal of C2E2 hanging around with some of the Reactor 88 Studios guys, and things are coming together.
Speaking of which, it turns out there's now an embeddable YouTube version of the Brave New World: Revolutions trailer. You can enjoy it right here.
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April 7, 2010
Music from College: Steven Mark and Ronan Lynch
The music of a couple college pals turned musicians cropped up this week. Back in 2006, I revealed that I'd borrowed the name Ronan Lynch — the main hero of Deadlands — from an Irish exchange student I'd met at the University of Michigan. Ronan had worked as a journalist for a while but had moved to Germany to take up singing in a roots reggae band. Recently, he's helped launch Irie UP, a new magazine dedicated to the international reggae scene. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but...
April 6, 2010
New Makeshift Prodigy Album Out
Makeshift Prodigy — the band that played a fantastic set at the Brave New World: Revolution teaser trailer debut at last year's Gen Con — released its second album today: Mathematica. You can listen to the whole album for free online, or you can buy a CD for $5. If you'd rather download it, it's available in a stunning variety of music-file formats (including MP3, of course), and you can pay whatever you like for it, down to a bare minimum of $4.99.
