Fourteen: Write-y Stuff!

Hi all,

Real life's been pretty hectic lately, dealing with mom's medical issues, drastically changing our move schedule to coincide with hers (and to coordinate it with hers, someone currently several states away), changing our house-buying goalposts by making it a house big enough for her and her lifetime's worth of stuff, too, and...just lots on the ol' plate at the moment.

Overwatch has been a recent refuge -- because as a quick, multi-player, online game, I can get in a match or two in just twenty minutes or so, and then get back to work after a quick break, something that certainly can't happen with Skyrim or Fallout 4 or the like! -- and that shows in my latest Patreon fic. "Miracle Shooter" has long been an augmented-reality game in Shadowrun lore, so I had some fun combining first-person-shooter fun with an ongoing character from my Patreon fiction this month. That was nice.

In other news, Shadowrun: Anarchy has been out for long enough for reviews to come trickling in, and they've been largely positive. Being a multi-writer RPG sourcebook, a few hiccups and wrinkles invariably emerge, but we've got the errata squad (plus a few of us eager writers) trying to smooth things over, so that's good.

Also, my most recent anthology contribution, for The Cainite Conspiracies (a tie-in fiction book for Vampire 20th Anniversary: Dark Ages) is being previewed to the general public here (and is already out as an e-book to folks who backed the Kickstarter a while ago). Getting to work on a World of Darkness piece -- after being a fan of the setting for about twenty years now -- was really cool, and getting to write the Clan-oriented piece for Toreadors (not quite my favorite Clan, but not too far off!) was icing on the proverbial cake.

Last but not least, we're getting our ducks in a row for a Kickstarter -- we decided to delay the launch until a few more things were extra-ready -- that will feature professional voice actors working off my script and story, set in my Over The Stars sci-fi universe...so keep an eye out in the coming months as I give more updates on that.

I hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween, and good luck heading into the holiday season!

--Russell