Irons in the Fire

This morning I e-mailed my final draft of RPG-ology Volume I to Dimensionfold Publishing, having received the final form of the foreword by Dave Mattingly last night.  I also have the next book, RPG Theory 101 and Other Essays in Role Playing Games, ready to go, complete with its foreword by Regis Pannier of the French edition of Places to Go, People to Be, but I did not want both books to hit the market too close together.  Watch for RPG-ology within the next week, and the theory essays book early next month.

Meanwhile, I've also finished prep on In Version including its character sheets for the support site, to be released on the Internet after we finish the current novel, and have begun prep on Con Version.   I am almost half way through setup on the Romans analytical commentary.  In other efforts, I wrote entries for the Christian Gamers Guild series Faith in Play and RPG-ology for July and August, staying ahead of the game there.  Additionally, I was asked a question about ghosts in the New Testament, and have begun outlining a response for the mark Joseph "young" web log.

Speaking of the blog, it opened the month as usually with a song, web log post #464:  The Song "The Secret" , which I suppose is a serious song inspired by a joke about two ways to get to heaven.

At the Christian Gamers Guild we had Faith in Play #63:  Inadequacy , about how to facilitate a game in which the characters are certain they cannot succeed against these impossible odds but they manage to do so anyway, and that without referee fiat. The Bible Study continued with Mark 3:10 through 3:20, and included Musings:  Joy , suggesting that joy is not a gift but something we are taught, and Musings:  Donkey Duty , observing that sometimes the seemingly menial unimportant and even demeaning jobs God gives us become very important within a larger plan.

I continued publishing Con Verse Lea with chapters 40 through 45 moving stories for James Beam, Lauren Hastings, and Tomiko Takano.  Eric R. Ashley and I continue to create the twelfth novel, A Dozen Verses, which has been an interesting challenge as he picked all the worlds and I've been trying to wrap my head around them to help write interesting stories in them.  I learned something about my writing process from this, but as I wrote about that on my Patreon web log, I'll only do so here if someone asks.

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