It's nearly a book!
Had to share the absolutely awesome cover of my next project from Kobold Press: The KOBOLD Guide to Worldbuilding. It's targeted mainly at roleplaying game GMs and designers, but there's some great stuff in it that applies to fiction writing across the board. Look!
It's got essays from some absolutely awesome authors (including some stellar stuff written by the estimable the_monkey_king and--good God--an essay from me!*), a wonderful introduction from our own kenscholes, and it's available for pre-order now!
*My piece is about writing in licensed universes (having edited a number of such projects), including interview material from conversations with kradical and another well-traveled game designer in the field. When I read it against the other essays in the book, it's kind of an outlier, a little hard-nosed maybe, and as much about the mechanics of getting such a gig as well as actually executing on it. But my publisher supported the idea of including it, and I was delighted to do it. I'm pretty pleased with the piece. But then, I'm pretty pleased with the whole book.
It's got essays from some absolutely awesome authors (including some stellar stuff written by the estimable the_monkey_king and--good God--an essay from me!*), a wonderful introduction from our own kenscholes, and it's available for pre-order now!
*My piece is about writing in licensed universes (having edited a number of such projects), including interview material from conversations with kradical and another well-traveled game designer in the field. When I read it against the other essays in the book, it's kind of an outlier, a little hard-nosed maybe, and as much about the mechanics of getting such a gig as well as actually executing on it. But my publisher supported the idea of including it, and I was delighted to do it. I'm pretty pleased with the piece. But then, I'm pretty pleased with the whole book.