Change is in the air. Or maybe it’s just spring. I dunno. Anyway, even as I branch out into MySpace and Facebook, updates to this site are in motion as well. Already, the News and Allies pages have had some overhaul, and this will branch out to the Creations and Character pages over the next […]
Dedicated to Otzi
I’m not really sure when I first got the idea to write a book about a man who tattooed magical symbols on his skin, but when I first started work on the Painted Man, my friend Neil sent me an article about Otzi the Iceman. Otzi is the original Painted Man. He was a man […]
Cover Art
Things are moving full speed ahead with UK production of the book. ARCs (Advance Read Copies) are set to go on press soon. ARCs are usually a cheaply made version of the book, printed on newsprint-weight paper in a very no-frills fashion. The purpose of ARCs is for reviewers and famous authors to get a […]
Old School, Part II
So I finally broke down and threw away the last of my cassettes. For those of you born after 1985, a cassette is a recording medium, like MP3 or AAC, but the information is contained in a long spool of magnetic tape instead of a digital data stream. Remember those CD’s you used to have […]
R.I.P. Gary Gygax (1938-2008)
I was very saddened to hear that Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, possibly the greatest game ever, died yesterday. He was 69. Some shoddy business deals cheated Gary out of much of the financial success of his work, but the gaming world never failed to give him his proper respect, and that’s more […]