Bent on total word domination
Next weekend, I’ll be in Wheeling, IL, for Capricon 32. It’s the first time I’ve been to the show, but I’ve heard excellent things about it. My schedule for the show is below. If you’re in the area, come on out and join us! Saturday, February 11 1 – 1:30 PM: Reading Probably something from Carpathia [...]
Today I wrote a guest post over at Slacker Heroes about how I set out on my 12 for ’12 plan and how I managed in the first month. Go ahead on over there and give it a read!
Between now and Valentine’s Day, my friends over at Kobold Quarterly are giving out free copies of Kobold Quarterly, their tabletop fantasy roleplaying game (i.e. D&D and variants) magazine. The issue they’re handing out gratis is #14, their Gen Con 2010 issue, which featured articles by my pals Monte Cook and Rob Heinsoo, among other [...]
One thing about writing tie-in or other work-for-hire books is that no one needs to let you know when they’ve sold the foreign-language rights to those books. This makes for some interesting moments when you find your name popping up on a book you’ve never seen before in a language you don’t speak. While looking [...]
If you read French, you can now get a free sample of the first chapters of Amortels, the French edition of my novel Amortals, published by L’Atalante. I’m happy to see them pushing the book hard, including advertising the book in the header on their website. If English is your native tongue, then head over [...]
Over at Sci-Fi Bulletin, Paul Simpson got a real kick out of Vegas Knights. He writes: At times it’s humorous, sardonic, deadly serious, horrific — and that can be on just one page! There are so many sudden shifts in the narrative that there are times when you wonder exactly what’s going on but Matt [...]
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Last summer, I joined up with an all-star team of game designers to pitch in on the upcoming Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game coming out from Margaret Weis Productions. That made me part of the game’s Illuminati, along with Cam Banks, Rob Donoghue, Will Hindmarch, Philippe-Antoine Ménard, and Jesse Scoble. Cam, who’s developing the game, has since run [...]
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The first issue of the Magic: The Gathering comic book I’m writing for IDW hits stores today. Be sure to hustle down to your local comic shop to grab yourself a copy, which comes with a playable, alternate-art card for the bestselling Magic: The Gathering collectible card game, on which the comic is based. If you [...]
My historical horror novel Carpathia is due out at the end of the month. It hits most of the world on February 28, which is the release date for the ebook edition as well. The UK print edition reaches shelves a couple days later on March 1. There’s also an audiobook edition in the works for [...]
Last night at about 10:45 PM, I put the finishing touches on the first draft of Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World: Revolution, the first book in my 12 for ’12 plan. That cut it a bit close to the end of the month, but it means I’m still on track for the year, and I [...]