I am more than happy to announce that my new novel, Ghosts of Smoke and Flame, will be released on February 19th! A story of rookie ghosts, a lovesick angel, a demonic cell phone, a possibly psychic cat, and more it’s proof that even if you think your family is Hell, things can always be worse…
You can pre-order the eBook here. In the meantime, gaze in wonder at the awesome cover by renowned comics artist and author Matthew Dow Smith!
I’ll be doing 3 readings this holiday season.
December 11th, I’ll be at the legendary Noir at the Bar at Yonder in Hillsborough, NC.
December 12th, I’ll be at Eastern NC Noir at the Bar at Larema Coffeehouse in Wilson, NC.
And December 20th, I’ll be hosting and reading at Spirits Of The Season, at the mighty Moon Dog Meadery in my home town of Durham.
(I promise, if you show up for all 3, you’ll get a different story each time, including at least one world premiere.)
See you there! (and there, and there…)
This upcoming weekend, I will be speaking at the Game Your Future conference in Baltimore, Maryland about the contents of my book, The Video Game Writer’s Guide to Surviving an Industry That Hates You. The talk is at noon on Saturday, followed by an autographing session. Come on down! It’s going to be awesome!
So here’s what went down last month. I:
Got published in issue 1o of legendary noir magazine Dark Yonder with my first true non-supernatural noir story, “Competitive Advantage”. I’m pretty sure that’s also the only piece of fantasy baseball-themed noir ever written, much less published.Pretty sure there was other stuff in there, but I think that’s a good start.
Now, deep breath, and then September.
Big news!
I just launched a Patreon!
Here’s a sample of what you can find over there. Content will be pretty much steady at least five days a week, with me talking about everything from game development to Sasquatches to writing to, well, pretty much anything.
Looking forward to seeing you over there!
Every so often, someone invites me onto their podcast to talk about some flavor of writing or other. I always enjoy doing this sort of thing, and it’s a real pleasure to have these sorts of conversations.
This past week, I had the rare distinction of having three podcasts episodes where I was a guest drop, one after another. Here are the links:
First up, the mighty Brian Kindregan had me on at Game Story Basics. Here’s part one
And here’s part two, where he called me a “narrative wild man”.
Switching gears a bit, here’s a three-headed conversation on what was the most ambitious piece of work I did back in the White Wolf days, Charnel Houses of Europe: The Shoah.
Coming up, I’ll be making appearances on a few more, most notably the Corner of Story and Game. Will keep you posted!
Just got back from my annual trip to New England for Necon, which was, as ever, a delight. This year I had the privilege of serving as Toastmaster, and was thus tasked with delivering the opening toast to the convention, as well as hosting the welcoming dinner for the Guests of Honor and interviewing the Writer Guests of Honor (Cynthia Pelayo, Errick Nunnally, and Eric LaRocca) onstage. I also moderated a panel on writing local horror, MCed the improvisational humorous writing competition Write Club (where I was gloriously sandbagged onstage by my girlfriend), co-hosted Necon Update (a humorous look at the con and various campers), and hosted a new event where first-time Necon attendees got to give a reading. Oh, and Ellen and I also hosted a late night unofficial Scotch and Cheese party, which was by all accounts a smashing success.
And there was some other stuff that went on that I will talk about later.
But it was great, I promise. Already planning for next year!
