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When last we left our hero, he’d run a marathon. Other highlights since then:

• The wedding (HUGE SUCCESS)
• Honeymoon in Iceland (also fun; considerably less ice than expected though)
• Intracytoplasmic sperm injection, as we found out we were extremely unlikely to have kids using ( Read more... )

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Cubicle 7 Entertainment is producing a roleplaying game based on the award-winning Laundry series (The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue, and the forthcoming The Fuller Memorandum) by the even-more-award-winning Charles Stross, and uses the also-award-winning Basic ( Read more... )

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I’ve updated (and by updated, I mean ‘mangled the HTML of deli’s nice site, so she’s going to design another one I can’t break so easily’) Milkyfish.com, which is our self-publishing operation. We’re starting off with a trio of Traveller supplements.

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Matthew Sprange (aka My Boss)’s annual State of the Mongoose report is up. It pretty much lists all the books I’ll be writing for Mongoose in the months to come. My current project is Deus Vult, about a secret order of demon-hunting monks running around Medieval Europe. I ( Read more... )

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First, the saga of the comics.

We ordered a somewhat ambitious print run of 100 copes of Fish for Fish from Comicxpress in the US about a month ago. Shipping should have taken two weeks. Even if there was a delay, we should still get them in plenty of time for the Edition Book ( Read more... )

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The Hammer’s Slammers rpg I wrote for Mongoose is apparently out on the shelves. Early reports appear positive, on the whole. The game’s based on the novels of David Drake, and I’m both amused and honoured by his comments that “the fellow who did the writing really understood ( Read more... )

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This weekend (Sat. 4th July), deli and I will be at Edition Book Arts in Dublin. It’s a book, comic and zine fair, and entry is free. It’s on in Temple Bar.


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Matthew Sprange’s annual State of the Mongoose post is up. My big Mongoose-thing for next year is overhauling PARANOIA, and I’m glad that I won the argument about the HIGH PROGRAMMER book. I still need to figure out how to write the thing, of course.

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