I've been saving up links to post here and just realized I'm getting overwhelmed, so I'd better post em here!

Big news: Tales of Rosuto Shima, the short story collection from the Steampunk Musha kickstarter, was just released in its first edition to the Kickstarter backers -- and it's also up on DriveThruRPG. My story, "The Gamelan Device," will ( Read more... )

Apologies for the long blog absence without warning! I was off on a family vacation that involved not one but two family weddings in beautiful Michigan. We had a lovely time, and when I returned home I jumped right into finishing up the last round of autobiographical essays, which included an original piece by Tananarive Due. Due and her husband, ( Read more... )

As part of the Kickstarter project for the new Steampunk Musha RPG, the gang at Fat Goblin Games has released The Steampunk Musha Explorer's Guide for free over at RPG Now. It's text I recognize very well from the original edition of the game -- some city descriptions, some mythology, and the Tale of Yu that I posted here just the other day! Best ( Read more... )

The Steampunk Musha RPG kickstarter has funded! Hurrah! It still has more than two weeks left and is within $200 of making the next goal. You can still become a backer here.

As promised, here's some flavor text from the original game. I hope you enjoy this excerpt!


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Some of the projects that I've worked on seem to vanish. A couple of anthology short stories I've written seem to have vanished; Ransom was only on contract to be sold for a year before all rights reverted to the authors. New copies of my novels are nearly impossible to find (though used copies usually turn up at the usual online suspects). For a ( Read more... )

I've had several thoughts for blog entries lately, but it's not always easy to find the time to sit down and write. Luckily, I have a netbook, which makes it possible for me to type this right now with a sleeping Bug on my arm. Another reason I've been putting off blogging, as I mentioned earlier, is that I don't like to post when I owe lyster a chapter ( Read more... )

First item of business, Steampunk Musha RPG, the Iron Gauntlets version, got a review! It's been out for awhile now, so I'm pleased to see that people are still finding it--and even more pleased that people are enjoying it when they do. The d20 version is still planned to be out there some time, and hopefully more folks will find it then, as well ( Read more... )

One small piece of advice: after declaring Apollo as a patron, do not then state that you haven't worn sunscreen since July, and therefore have no need of it at the end of August. This is foolish. And also a recipe for sunburn and/or sunstroke. Because the gods are spiteful. That's sort of their thing ( Read more... )

Nearly all of my B&N preorders have shipped and should be arriving on my porch in the next few days. So I'd like to take this moment to wish a happy Book Birthday (in some cases, belated from earlier this week) to:

• frost_light's One Foot in the Grave,
• melissa_writing's Ink Exchange, and
• shanna_s's Don't Hex with Texas

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I had really, really intended to do something to celebrate Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Wretch day, but honestly, I never marked it on my calendar. All the work that I have out of the submission circuit is older, and therefore doesn't really reflect me as a writer now (as much as I like some of it, I acknowledge that it's from an earlier stage in my ( Read more... )