After a month, sales of the Tales of Zo collection have been anemic, at best. Furthermore, my publisher cannot take advantage of the ebook promotion tools on Amazon until it has at least 5 reviews there ( Read more... )

So, a love-bomb I set up more than 6 years ago finally detonated.

Back in the day, while I was writing the Zorcerer of Zo RPG, I used Older Niece as a character-generation example and used some photomanipulations of her in the book. My family has known this for a long, long time ( Read more... )

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So, this is what I did yesterday, in rough order:

* Woke up at 5:30 am.
* Made coffee (loving the new Keurig!).
* Finished hand-editing a technical standard (freelance).
* Teleconference with old work (who I'm freelancing for).
* Lit candles for the Grandmas at IC church.
* Had brunch/lunch at Shorty's with step-brother ( Read more... )

I successfully ordered 3 new copies of the Zorcerer of Zo from Lulu. That was harder than you'd think.

One is on my desk (good luck charm), one is in my file of printed works, and one is "flexible" -- I can gift it or keep it as I want.

It's a small "mwah-ha-ha", but it's mine.

Fred's post with the Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies (and other Evil Hat games) sales numbers is now up here.

...I'm having a conversation with Paul Czege (My Life with Master) on storygames about the numbers. Come on and stop by!

http://is.gd/dzGLE

With the IPR 2Q2010 numbers that came in recently, I decided to take a look at the numbers (as of 6/30/2010).

Here, have some data ( behind the cut )

With the IPR 1Q2010 numbers that came in recently, I decided to take a look at the numbers (as of 3/31/2010).

Here, have some data ( behind the cut )

I haven't done this in awhile, but have decided to get back into the practice.

With the IPR 4Q2009 numbers that came in recently, I decided to take a look at the numbers (as of 12/31/2009).

Here, have some data ( behind the cut )