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A Life Measured in Books and Cats

on March 10th, 2010

Okay, I know this is not a great follow-up to that terrific series with Ed Greenwood, but life brings wonderful things followed by terrible things.
This morning, my cat Merlin died.
Eleven years ago, a gray tabby kitten followed a 32-year-old man who was taking his three-year-old and one-year-old boys on a walk in their wagon. The [...]

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Category: Rob's News

Grab Bag

on March 10th, 2010

First, I’d like to welcome author and 4E game designer Rob Heinsoo to the blogroll on the right. Rob promises more entries if I add him, so I’m going to hold him to this.Also, I’ve been spending a lot of time with Steambirds, a brilliant little game by…

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Category: Jeff’s News

Nimby

on March 9th, 2010

So I’ve come across two things recently, involving unwanted businesses, affecting the communities to the north and south of where I live.For the newcomers, the home office of Grubb Street is located near Panther Lake, in unincorporated King County, bet…

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Category: Jeff’s News

Wonders

on March 7th, 2010

“Coalesced from a collapsing cloud of dust.”

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Category: Bruce’s News

Archived Tweets for 2010-03-06

on March 6th, 2010

from savage nature / build a fire, a fence, against / forests prime evil // #haiku #micropoetry (for an "evil" haiku contest) #
RT @storykim: It’s Haiku Friday! Today’s topic: Evil. Write your own haiku, maybe win a prize. http://tinyurl.com/co3tha #fb ^LS #
RT @jrobertking: Death's Disciples got it right for Chicago. @GreatDismal Test a nuclear weapon, [...]

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Category: Les’s News

Archived Tweets for 2010-03-05

on March 5th, 2010

Did I miss a memo re obsoleting 1024×768 screens? You kids with your Twitter feed overlapping your photo & horizontal scroll are killing me. #
The work day endeth satisfactorily. (Love my job.) Time to head home & finish the character-creation chapter I've been promising @Jamie1km. #
RT @baffled "antique charm bracelet ~ Nana wistfully clicks clasp [...]

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Category: Les’s News

The Perils of Publishing

on March 4th, 2010

On the announcements here and here, I’ve gotten two questions:1) Why didn’t you tell us about this sooner?2) Didn’t I read somewhere you were working on a Star Wars book?Here’s my answer to the first question: A lot of writers post about their ongoing …

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Category: Jeff’s News

Press Release

on March 3rd, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                      &…

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Category: Monte’s News

GM’s Day Sale

on March 3rd, 2010

All Malhavoc Press pdf products are 25% off now through the weekend! Enjoy!

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Category: Monte’s News

Paranormal Romance

on February 28th, 2010

I have a new short story up on the Wily Writers site. Wily Writers makes electro-published speculative fiction available on the mojo wire, and my story, “Happily Ever After”, is available both as text and read by the talented Scott McGough, who in addi…

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Category: Jeff’s News