Category Archives: fiction

Posts about my fiction or, I suppose, other folks’ fiction as well.

The One-Year Plan: Goal One – Met!

I finished a novel last night. I’m still a bit stunned by it honestly. It’s a Middle Grade novel, sure, so it’s 1/3 the size of a standard adult novel (what most folks think of when they think of a … Continue reading

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The One-Year Plan Begins Now

The grand odometer of life has flipped another digit, and I’m staring across a field of 365 chances to fulfill some dreams until it does so again. As I talked about back in September, I aim to become an honest-to-goodness … Continue reading

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Out Now: CONSPIRACY RULES!

I’d been a fan of Lester Smith‘s original Dark Conspiracy for many years. My gaming interests tend to have a dark streak and Lester’s vision of a near-future world overrun by all manner of horror was a perfect fit to … Continue reading

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Behold the Human Stretch Goal

Over the past couple weeks, three different game designers offered me a chance to contribute to their Kickstarter projects as a participant in possible stretch goals. As the first’s been active for a bit, and the second was just announced … Continue reading

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Operation: Awesome – The One-Year Plan

About a month ago, I talked about how I needed to add new direction in my life (“A Metaphorical Haircut“) and that, even though I was sitting pretty with a great job at a great company, I was left partially … Continue reading

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A Metaphorical Haircut

It’s not that I get bored easily. But when I do tire of something, I have to change it. Mostly this means shaving my head or growing a ridiculous mustache but sometimes this means bigger things. I launched Operation: Awesome … Continue reading

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Out Now: DON’T WALK IN WINTER WOOD

Just a quick note to let all your story game fans know Don’t Walk in Winter Wood is now available for purchase! I only contributed a bit of fiction to the book; the heavy-lifting was done by Clint Krause who … Continue reading

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Some People Liked Some Books I’m In

Starting a new job, working on two pen-and-paper game lines, selling a home, and moving out of the state are taking up a lot of space in my calendar so this isn’t the timeliest of updates but some pretty prestigious … Continue reading

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Out Now: TALES OF THE FAR WEST

This one’s a knock out, folks. Last summer, my friend Gareth Skarka launched a Kickstarter for his Wild West/Wuxia adventure game setting Far West. Support flooded in, eventually netting Gareth and company almost $50,000 in backer pledges. From its beginning … Continue reading

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P&E Readers Name HAUNTED Best Horror Antho!

Preditors & Editors rolled out its yearly Reader Polls a couple months back and readers chose HAUNTED: 11 Tales of Ghostly Horror as the Best Horror Anthology of 2011! HAUNTED really is a great book. My story “It Happened in … Continue reading

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