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If you’re part of the tabletop games industry and plan on attending Gen Con, you can now apply to be an Industry Insider Guest of Honor at the show. I’ve been a part of this program ever since the show moved to Indianapolis back in 2003, and it’s fantastic fun. In the past, there’s been [...]
Tomorrow evening, starting at 9 PM Eastern Time, March 21, I’ll be a guest on #SFFWRTCHT. That’s the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer Chat held on Twitter every Wednesday night and hosted by Bryan Thomas Schmidt. I’ll be answering all sorts of questions and chatting about many things, including Carpathia, 12 for ’12, the Magic: [...]
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Just because the Shotguns & Sorcery Kickstarter sucked up nearly all my attention last week doesn’t mean that everyone else in the world stopped reading. Many of those folks even read Carpathia and were kind enough to say several nice things about it. At Warpcore SF, Ros Jackson loved the book. It’s not a relentless disaster [...]
On Friday, IDW sent out the press release that confirms what anyone who read Diamond’s Previews the previous week already knew. The first Magic: The Gathering comic book miniseries sold well, and we already have a second miniseries in the works. It’s called Magic: The Gathering: The Spell Thief, and it follows the continuing adventures of [...]
I’m sure I’ll have more to say about this soon, but thanks to everyone who lent a hand! I’m absolutely stunned at what a great day this has been. The Shotguns & Sorcery Kickstarter began the day with $7,644 and 205 backers. When it was all over, we totaled up $12,800 and 332 backers, a gain of [...]
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Wow! What a day! The Shotguns & Sorcery Kickstarter began the day at $7,644, and I wasn’t sure we were going to make it by the end of the night. I’m thrilled to report that we smashed through the $10,000 barrier at 4:36 PM, despite losing an hour to the Daylight Savings Time switch! That unlocks all three of [...]
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Early this morning, we unlocked Book 2 in the Shotguns & Sorcery trilogy. Woo-hoot! Thanks to every one of the backers for making that happen. It’s been a wild ride to this point, and they’ve made it happen. From here, it’s a flat-out sprint for Book 3, as the drive ends tonight at just before [...]
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As we roll toward the last day of the Shotguns & Sorcery Kickstarter drive, it seems clear that I set the final goal too high again. I think there may be a lot of reasons for this, and I hope to write a post-mortem about it all once this drive is over. Kickstarter is such a new [...]
The Shotguns & Sorcery Kickstarter is winding down to its final moments. As I write this, we have jut 56 hours to go, and the total stands at just under $7,000. HUGE thanks to everyone who chipped in and helped out. I’m pretty confident we can crack the $8k barrier, which unlocks Book 2. I [...]
Over on his Have Dice, Will Travel blog, my pal Keith Baker interviews me about Shotguns & Sorcery. Among his many accomplishments, Keith is the man who created the Eberron setting for Dungeons & Dragons. As he writes in the interview, “When I pitched Eberron, I described it as The Lord of the Rings meets Raiders of the [...]