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Blog postOn Monday, the IAMTW (International Association of Media Tie-In Writers) announced the nominees for this year’s Scribe Awards. I was pleased to see my novel Minecraft Dungeons: The Rise of the Arch-Illager made the list for Best YA/MG Novel!
It shares that honor with:
In the Study With the Wrench (a Clue novel) by Diana Peterfreund Liberty and Justice for All (a Marvel novel) by Carrie Harris The Rise of Skywalker (a Star Wars novel) by Michael Kogge -
Blog postOn Friday, Marvel announced its plans to publish a new tabletop roleplaying game called the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game. Normally, I’d be pretty excited about this because I’m a lifelong Marvel fan and roleplaying gamer. I learned how to read with Spidey comics, and I played the classic Marvel Super Heroes RPG from TSR till my boxed set fell apart. But instead I’m absolutely gobsmacked by it because I’m the new game’s writer and co-designer.
I’ve been sitting on this news for -
Blog postHey, it’s midnight in Stockholm, so….
On May 25, 2021 (today-ish), the brand-new video game Biomutant launches to the public. My pal Stefan Ljungqvist has been working on this amazing game for years, and I’m thrilled that it’s finally out there for the world to play.
I first met Stefan something like 30 years ago, back when he was at Target Games in Sweden and I was working on the Mutant Chronicles roleplaying game, among many other projects. We’ve kept in touch over the years -
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Blog postThis post probably doesn’t apply to most of you reading it, but if you get my posts emailed to you via Google’s Feedburner, that’s all about to stop. Google is finally laying Feedburner to rest, which means it won’t bring my posts to your email inbox any more.
All’s not lost though. I’m switching over to Jetpack/Wordpress for subscriptions to the blog. If you want to get on that list, just go to my blog and look for the subscribe button in the lower right under “Posts via Email.” Simp -
Blog postWow, it’s been a long time since I updated this blog. Let’s just say that helping hold down the home fort during a pandemic and getting work done at the same time has been a wild juggling challenge, and this is one of the flaming chainsaws I let drop.
Since the last post back in December, I managed to get two more Shotguns & Sorcery RPG books out to the Kickstarter backers. We’re waiting to get proofs back from DriveThruRPG for the print-on-demand versions now. Once those are in, -
Blog postThe rights to Shotguns & Sorcery: The Roleplaying Game reverted back to me earlier this year, and I’ve been working to get the things promised to backers in the 2015 Kickstarter off to them ever since. The core book—based on Monte Cook Games’ Cypher System—finally released to the public this summer, and in the past couple months, I managed to get three other things for the game out the door:
The Player’s Guide: A cut-down version of the core rules, offered up on the cheap so you can g -
Blog postToday, the Black Library released two new editions of books based on Blood Bowl, Games Workshop’s game of fantasy football. In this case, the fantasy doesn’t involve NFL teams but elves, dwarves, vampires, and other fantastic monsters having over-the-top hyper-violent pun-filled battles in between slaking their thirst on ales like Bloodweiser and Killer Genuine Draft.
This was one of my favorite games back when I worked at the Games Workshop Design Studio in 1989-1900, and I had the h -
Blog postLike most people, I’ve been staying close to home and hunkered down in these pandemic-plagued days. If I’d known this was going to happen, I’d have spent more time at C2E2, which wound up being the last convention I attended this year. While some of those shows have been canceled outright, many of them have gone virtual, so I’ve been joining in via Zoom rather than in person.
For instance, look for me on a couple panels at the upcoming Storytelling Across Media convention held by the -
Blog postDecades back, in the mid-’90s, I was the developer for the Mutant Chronicles roleplaying game for Target Games in Sweden. It’s a dark future setting in which corporations rule the solar system and strive to protect us from demonic/alien forces of mind-bending evil invading from beyond. It’s been featured in RPGs, board games, and collectible card games and was even the subject of a 2009 movie starring Tom Jane and Ron Perlman, for which I wrote the novelization.
It also made its way t -
Blog postOn July 7, my latest novel hit shelves. Rise of the Arch-Illager is an officially licensed novel based on the brand-new hit video game Minecraft Dungeons. It’s for ages 10 and up, and it focuses on the origins of the villain of the game, the legendary Arch-Illager himself.
The book is already selling well. It debuted as the #1 children’s ebook on Amazon. It doesn’t hurt that Minecraft is one of the most popular games of all time.
I had a wonderful time working on this book wit
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