Playing catch-up

Filed under Reviews, Writing Journal, Young Dragons on August 8, 2005
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There are a couple of “old business” items I keep forgetting to post on, so I’m going to get those out of the way before I get to the main subject I wanted to discuss today. First, a couple weeks ago I got my royalty statement from Hasbro that covers the first quarter of sales [...]

Putting words in my mouth

Filed under Writing Journal on June 6, 2005
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As many of you probably already noticed, I scheduled a book signing at the local Borders. Check out the Events page for details.
Last year, while writing “How Burlmarr . . .”, I held a contest to come up with the draconic word for “lightning.” I picked three finalists from the entries. Now that the book [...]

Catan Online

Filed under Reviews, Writing Journal on May 16, 2005
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My friend Wan Gai informed me Saturday that MSN’s Zone is previewing an online version of Settlers of Catan. A huge fan of the game, I spent a good chunk of the weekend playing against the computer, and live opponents. It was fun. The online version is very true to the board game. One feature [...]

Burlmarr uncut

Filed under Writing Journal on May 6, 2005
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I’ve been watching RotD2’s Amazon.com sales rank since it officially came out this week. It has been consistently above 10,000, peaking somewhere in the 6,000s both today and on Tuesday. No reviews yet.
I have gotten some comments on the forums here, and discussion is starting to pick up with the Worlds of D&D book club. [...]

Release the dragons, officially

Filed under Writing Journal on May 3, 2005
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Today is the day, so all those of you who have been deprived of your dragons can now march up to the counters of your local bookstores and demand your copy of Realms of the Dragons II. No more hiding them in the back storeroom, managers! Once you’ve read through all the great stories, post [...]