It's almost here! I've heard from editor Adam Strong-Morse that the release for Choice of Kung Fu is set for tomorrow. You can check at Choice of Games for purchase options for your device; if you want to play the browser version, I get my CoG games straight from the Chrome Store.

And now, a cute demonstration of feline martial arts.

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Two projects have been keeping me busy enough to take up blog time, but both are coming to a head. The first is my Choice of Games kung fu project, which is coming to the concluding chapters and is planned for a before-Christmas release. Which means you all will be able to see what it is I've been working on! I'm very grateful to my playtesters, ( Read more... )

While I'm not keeping up with blogs, I do keep up with the articles on Tor.com from time to time. Today I read a great one by Liz Bourke about why saying "it's the past, it was just like that" isn't a good excuse to make all of your female characters simpering, or all of your characters heteronormative. It's well worth reading, and some ( Read more... )

Seems to me that there was a time, not so long ago, that I used to keep up with dozens of bloggers, who I liked and felt a kinship with. That also used to be the time when I updated my own blog with some regularity. Clearly, that time has passed ( Read more... )

Look at what I got in the mail!


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Did you all like my disappearing act? Next, I'll saw my assistant in half! But really, what have I been up to in the past month?

• Copyediting. A lot.
• Watching Leverage. (Thanks to lyster and publius513 for the recommendation!)
• Watching Eureka, on which my friend Margaret Dunlap is a writing assistant.
• Realizing that catching up on back episodes of cool TV shows takes ( Read more... )

jimhines talks a lot about martial arts and writing on his blog. An experience at kempo tonight lent itself to this kind of comparison as well, so I thought I'd try an analogy over here ( Read more... )

Two days in a row! It's been awhile since I blogged that frequently.

Since yesterday's commitment on Devon's Deadline Dames post, I've been thinking a lot about the nature of goals, and about the ones I set up for myself at the beginning of the year. It's easy to lose sight of goals when you're not doing anything about them, and I think I was ( Read more... )

...particularly when, while doing dive rolls, you fall on your head. Twice. And then you don't realize until the next day that you must have knocked yourself pretty hard, since the world is spinny and walking in a straight line is far too much a challenge ( Read more... )