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Just wanted to check in and account for my lack of updates on LTUE as I had promised. I had another freelance job drop in my lap, and I couldn’t refuse. This one has kept me busy pretty much every free moment I would otherwise have. Not sure how long this will last. It seems like it will be a fairly long-term gig, but not always as time consumin...

Remember how I posted about LTUE a couple of weeks ago? It was freaking awesome! Of course, I’ve never been to a convention before, so maybe I’m just naive and inexperienced. But I figured you just might be interested in some of the things I learned at the three-day FREE convention—excuse me, conference—er, symposium? Their official material ca...

So I just heard of a cool writing conference called Life, the Universe and Everything. It’s scheduled for February 11, 12, and 13 at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and this year the illustrious Brandon Sanderson will be attending. The schedule looks jam-packed with awesome panels and presentations. There are lots of other published aut...

Yesterday I mentioned something I didn’t like about Brent Week’s Night Angel Trilogy—an interesting similarity to Robert Jordan’s world of the Wheel of Time. I actually softened it a bit before posting, because I didn’t want to be mean or rude. Just a few minutes later, I decided to look up the blog of Patrick Rothfuss, author of the awesome Th...

Is “iconicity” a word? It is now. I’m reading a series called the Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks. It’s been really enjoyable for the most part. But something has cropped up in the third book that serves as a prefect example of The Wheel of Time’s status as an icon in the fantasy genre. It turns out that in this story there is a group of ma...

The other day I had this strange idea for a roleplaying game (RPG). I’ve been calling it “distributed roleplaying.” A central idea of most roleplaying games is that one person, the Game Master (GM), provides the setting, story, and even some of the rules for the game, while the players control only a single character. Essentially, the GM control...

I’m a published author, but it didn’t happen in the way you usually think of. I didn’t complete a manuscript. I didn’t get an agent or a contract from a big New York publisher, let alone an independent small press publisher. Actually, in the interest of full disclosure, I should say I’m a published co-author. And the book was already in its thi...

It seems everyone is talking about Avatar. I’m glad it was so successful. I hope it will continue to convince more studio executives in Hollywood of the box office potential of big budget sci-fi movies. Avatar is being released in three different formats. I guess there are probably more accurate technical terms to describe the various formats...