Over the past couple of days, I've received requests from the Shacknews community to help some indie game developers within our ranks document the process of developing their games. I did not initiate these, and was very flattered to be mentioned specifically as a go-to guy for writing about games.

If you've read STAY AWHILE AND LISTEN or the ( Read more... )

Pro WrestlingIf I could do it all over again, I would become a professional wrestler and give the fans a "once (or twice) in a lifetime" match against The Rock, one of my idols in and out of the ring, at WrestleMania. Or maybe not. I hate exercise as much as I love the idea of grappling with Kurt Angle and talking trash on the microphone while The ( Read more... )

Stay Awhile and Listen: Book 1 has been doing well, but I haven't had much time to notice. I made requested edits to HERITAGE for the publisher, and have been scheduling DM Press's releases for the 2014 calendar year -- all of which I'm writing, so I've been rather busy. Here are a few tasty morsels that have come out of the last several weeks ( Read more... )

Pardon my dust. The weeks leading up to the launching STAY AWHILE AND LISTEN left me exhausted, and not keen on spending time keeping my personal blog up-to-date when I'd been scrambling to keep up with coverage on the DM Press website and our social media pages. I think that's a problem most writers want to have, so you'll get no more complaints ( Read more... )

By the time you read this, Stay Awhile and Listen Book 1 will be available. If you preordered on iTunes, the book should have infested your iBooks device like monsters crawling up from Hell's deepest pit to infest the good people of Tristram. For those who didn't preorder, go to the Kindle storefront and behold the luminescence of the book's cover ( Read more... )

We're 6 days away from the release of STAY AWHILE AND LISTEN - BOOK 1. Six days. That's bizarre. Scary. Exciting. I've loaded up my plate with a sample of every dish of the buffet of emotions, really. First and foremost, I'm proud. The book turned out well... and I'm not the only one who thinks so ( Read more... )

Last fall I ran a complete chapter from STAY AWHILE AND LISTEN on Shacknews. The promotion went over so well that I decided to give away a few more pages... only, closer to the book's release rather than a year off ( Read more... )

Two awesome pieces of STAY AWHILE AND LISTEN coverage dropped yesterday.

- First up, you can now pre-order SAAL 1 on iTunes. You won't be charged until 10/31 when the book becomes available, so reserve it now.

- Lucas Smith, a writer at VideoGameWriters.com who's currently reading SAAL for review, interviewed me about the book. We cover a range ( Read more... )

Last week's announcement of STAY AWHILE AND LISTEN 1's release on October 31 shifted the promotional wagon into drive. The first stop on our tour: Venture Beat. Dean Takahashi, an editor for the site, extended an invitation to write an editorial on a topic related to the book. I loved stories of Blizzard North's controlled chaos, a catch-as-catch- ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I sat you down and had a writer-to-reader chat with you about why I carved Stay Awhile and Listen (SAAL) into three delicious servings, the first of which launches on 10/31. Today, I'd like to explain how I carved it up so you know exactly what each serving of SAAL will get you. I also show off SAAL 1's table of contents and explain how ( Read more... )