Back at work the Monday after GenCon. If I had been smart (and if things at work would have supported it), I would have just taken today off. So, I’ll give you the thumbnail from the show.

First panel was Short Stories vs. Vignettes. About 20 people in the audience. Since GenCon is a gaming convention, we discussed writing gaming short stories ( Read more... )

Shore Leave 2016 has come and gone and in my (not so) humble opinion, it was quite the success.

Had a great afternoon on Friday visiting with Greg Cox, Christopher L. Bennett, Keith DeCandido, Nick Mamatas, Robert Greenberger, and Dayton Ward before the show started. Also caught up with a ton of other authors at Meet the Pros Friday night. Saw ( Read more... )

I’ll be catching you all up on some of the stuff going on here, but the quick highlights:

“No Rest for the Wicked” was published by Battlecorps on their website and will be released in their “Slack Tide” anthology later.

Just finished the first draft of “The Enemy You Know” tonight. That’s a bit over 10,000 words since Saturday (and given how ( Read more... )

So far, we have survived Snowzilla 2016. I’ve managed to not completely fritter away my days off buried under the snow. Well, mostly, but not completely.

I heard back from my editor on Paladin who liked the edits I made to the story. Always good news. So, I suspect the next time I see it, it’ll be the galley proofs. *yay!*

I also worked on my Gale ( Read more... )

Submitted a proposal for a new short story last night and continued refining my Kickstarter site. Spent some time visiting with a couple of friends who’ve run successful campaigns -they had very different approaches, but I see things in both that I think I can adapt to my campaign.

What I need to do now is start coordinating with people to ( Read more... )

Another busy evening here. Proofed a short story that’ll be released soon. Silence in the Library is re-releasing the stories that originally appeared in the 2014 Origins Game Fair anthology, Monsters to the general public. I’m excited to see this release and hope you enjoy all the stories.

Also, I am submitting a pitch/synopsis/50 pages to a ( Read more... )

Looks like December is going to be a busy, busy month.

First of all, I have Geekonomicon coming up on the 11-13th, so I need to start figuring out what I’m going to take with me to the show.

Then, I have to finish and submit my story “Paladin” to Kelly Swails for the 2016 Origins Game Fair anthology.

And tonight, I got an invite to submit an 8,000 ( Read more... )

It never fails does it. Been working on”The Sleeping Her“, which is the working title for my novel follow-on for For a Few Gold Pieces More. Unfortunately, as I hit about 8000 words, I realized, the first half of the 2nd Chapter had nothing to do with the second half.

OK, so now I have a third chapter, but I now have to go back and add some more ( Read more... )

Sent the first set of revisions for a short story back to the editor. Took me a bit to get into the revisions, partly for personal reasons, partly because I’ve been busy with other projects. Still, I think all in all it’s going to turn out OK.

Also found out that another anthology I’d submitted for several months ago seems to be coming to fruition ( Read more... )

Before we post part two to the Darkside Codex story, I have some general writing news.

Sunday was the first blog post I’ve published at Black Gate. It’s supplemental information for my book, Terra Incognito, about designing a fantasy or historical village for writers or gamers. After talking to my publisher, StarWarp Concepts, they’d like me to ( Read more... )