What I Did This Week

So it's been quite the week for announcements. Here they are, all gathered in one place:
It can be told at last - the fine folks at JournalStone will be publishing my videogame ghost story Vaporware this year. Vaporware is the story of what happens when a game development project doesn't want to get canceled, and the manuscript has already claimed the life of at least one e-reader.My first short fiction collection, Snowbird Gothic , will be out shortly from NECON E-Books, and by "shortly" I mean "any day now". It features wonderful cover art from my friend and coworker Richard Case ( Sandman , Doom Patrol ), as well as a plethora of stories both long and short, some of which have never appeared elsewhere. And if you're curious about content, rest assured these are all stories my brilliant wife Melinda referred to as "the creepy stuff". While you're at it, if you're a horror fan you owe it to yourself to check out the selection at NEB, as they're doing a marvelous job of mixing newer works with classics from authors like Charles Grant, Les Daniels and Darrell Schweitzer.The wizards at Apex have put up my devotional in support of my story "Coin Drop" in the Dark Faith: Invocations anthology. There's also an ongoing discussion of the piece at Goodreads.I am pleased to say that I have once again been accepted to give a series of game writing roundtables at GDC in San Francisco. I'm also once again helping shepherd the Game Narrative Summit, which once again will be full of excellent speakers like Corey May, Jay Posey, Noah Falstein and many more.Saturday I'm doing a livecast discussion with the ridiculously sharp Marty Smith of ScentTrail about gamification as it relates to his ongoing charity efforts in the fight against cancer. I'm just hoping I'll be able to keep up with the questions.Sportsthodoxy, the sports blog I share with the estimable Jim Kiley, his brother Sean and new fella Dustin Clingman, just had the best month of its existence, traffic-wise. Thanks for reading, folks, and I hope our brand of high-minded snark and cheap Ray Lewis jokes continues to amuse.The media embargo has been lifted on my current videogame project, Splinter Cell: Blacklist (due out in August) and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. You can check some of it out here.There's another review up at GreenMan, this time a look at wonderful modern fantasy novel Stray Souls by Kate Griffin. I'll shortly be contributing another piece to my irregular column series, Brief Lines, as well; the first two are up here and here.And that's about it for this week. Next week I'm off to Toronto to work with the folks at the studio there; hopefully the pace will be slightly slower. 
Then again, what the hell. Full speed ahead!