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I can't remember if I've posted about the podcast a fellow author invited me to take part in. It's called Characters & Class (cnclasspodcast on all social media) and it's just us inviting writers to join us in rolling up characters for D&D with no prep time, which is also a great writing exercise for non-gaming character creation. Anyway, I'm posting today cos we're giving...
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Great response to our first episode last week, so I thought I'd share the second episode of Characters & Class, where a couple of authors roll up D&D characters on the spot with no pre-planning and come up with unique character concepts. This week we do a couple of fighters and show how no two fighters have to be alike. This is exactly the sort...
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One of my fellow sci-fi authors (whom I introduced to D&D during the pandemic) invited me to start up a podcast where we do quick character creation on the spot, sort of a combination of D&D and a writing workshop as we brainstorm concepts and such. It's been a lot of fun to record and the first episode is available now:

Characters & Class

If...
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If you're a reader looking for a distraction over this pandemic-Christmas, I've got two of my novelettes free on Christmas Eve and Day:

Gifted is about a group of young superheroes bumbling their way through their first holiday together:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KQGHYY6

And Krampus in the City is when those young superheroes have to save some kids from... you guessed it, Krampus!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MSYJ1P6

Have some holiday escapism...
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Should've posted this yesterday for Krampusnacht, but my old superheroes vs. Krampus holiday horror comedy story is free over on Kindle today!

Happy to announce that we've finally released Doc Silence: The Cost of Magic, an urban fantasy story telling the origin of the mentor of the Indestructibles. This is the book I've always wanted to write. Myth, folklore, tragedy, and love.

So I wrote a thing and put it up on Medium. Saving Throws: How D&D saved my life during COVID. Realized some folks here might find it relatable. It's a hard time to be human, and a lot of us are finding shelter from the storm by playing pretend. Are you playing a lot of RPGs during the pandemic? Has it helped? Has it...
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I know a few folks follow my books here so I figured I'd share this - the books are now available, signed/personalized, through my own website. I even have some first edition versions available in limited numbers! Didn't figure I'd ever do an online store since Amazon and other bookstores are so convenient, but just in case anyone was looking, wanted to make this...
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"What do you do at 2 a.m. anyway?"
"Well, sometimes I sit here alone and get angry about how my brain has retained every single perceived mistake I've ever made, but forgotten every ounce of music theory I ever learned, so when I'm trying to identify something I know I used to understand about musical structure it's like I'm grasping at fireflies I can't catch."...
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Just in time for the summer convention season, Book 5 of the Indestructibles series, "The Crimson Child," has officially launched! I'm really proud of this one. Took a while to get it ready with the process of changing publishers.