The end of the year is approaching, and I don’t have anything scheduled to come out in the next few months, so it’s time for the yearly roundup. Focusing on writing Wizard Confidential for a year and a half left my short story backlog low, which means I published all of zero this year. That…
Wizard Confidential Seattle, 1927. You’re a private eye in a city drenched in secrets. Bootleggers run speedboats over the border to supply speakeasies and jazz clubs; gangs shoot it out in dark alleys; and the coppers are even more crooked than the crooks. Crime isn’t the only thing lurking in Seattle’s misty streets: there are…
We’re always told that years are roughly the same length, but when I try to remember back to the beginning of this year, all I see is the gray haze of the far distant past. I spent most of the year working on a game for Choice of Games, but that’s a 2026 thing. More…
This has been a light convention year for me, and Seattle Worldcon is going to be my last event of the year. It’s also a light con for me, since I had a scheduling conflict with my only panel. That leaves a pretty light event, but I’ll still be plenty busy meeting with SFWA members,…
I didn’t write a list of eligible works last year because, well, I didn’t have very many of them. It would hardly count as a list. Also, the biggest award that I pay attention to is the Nebulas, and I’m recusing myself this year due to briefly serving as President of SFWA. Some of what…
The best four days in gaming is winding up again this week, and I’ll be there with piles of events for the Gen Con Writers Symposium. For those of you not familiar, the Gen Con Writers Symposium is a fantastic piece of the overall Gen Con experience. It’s a series of panels, workshops, and seminars…
My consumption of books has oddly slowed this past month, not because I’ve stopped reading but because I’ve started going through Choice of Games titles. They’re fantastic and fun reading experiences, but they don’t count on my StoryGraph titles, putting me down to ‘right on track’ in the quest to read 75 books by the…
