Bent on total word domination
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…
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…
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 …
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…
A couple new things over on the linkbar to your right that bear mentioning.First off, the unsinkable Stan! has launched a new site, 10′ by 10′ Toons, in addition to his continuing Doodle-a-Day site. 10×10 is more gaming oriented and worth a look every …
Those of you who follow this blog know that I don’t tip my hand early (which is probably the point of an entire ‘nother post, but we’ll let that pass for the moment). But yesterday ArenaNet officially announced the upcoming release of Ghosts of Ascalon…
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet, Directed by Wilson Milam, Seattle Rep through Feb 28.Not a great choice as far as a “Valentine’s Day play”, but one of those great things about Season Tickets is that you don’t necessarily control the dates. But I ha…
So the weekend ‘net has been alive with comments about the latest Macmillan and Amazon shenanigans. Here’s the short version – Big Six publisher Macmillan (which, among other imprints, controls TOR books) and online book colossus Amazon are in a urinat…
It is election time again, and if you’re in King County, you’ve received your ballot and Voter’s Guide.What, so soon? Didn’t we just have an election four months ago?Yeah, but democracy never sleeps, and thanks to the arcane nature of how we do things …
Speech and Debate by Stephen Karam, Directed by Andrea Allen, through 21 February, Seattle Rep.I’m going to be up front about this; this one did not do a lot for me. I am fairly uncomfortable with the comedy of embarrassment, particularly where those b…