On Writing Game Fiction

April 26th, 2008 · 9:39 am  →  News & New Releases

Hey, hope everyone is doing fantabulously well and your hit points are way, way up. Sadly, I haven’t had time to game much lately. Anyway, I’ve been working on a novella based on a game, so I wrote a series of articles about the process this week on my blog at MLVwrites.com. I’m still looking [...]

On the Completely Unboring Life Front… *No Really*

April 26th, 2008 · 8:59 am  →  News & New Releases

Like , Aletheia owns a piece of my soul. Couple that with my needy, pay-attention-to-me-now kitten Rimmon, a great day job that is proving to be more interesting every day, an SO who adores me, and my personal blogging commitments (among other things)…well… Yeah, my schedule pretty much sounds like everyone else on my LJ, [...]

Dear LiveJournal: Please Recommend…

April 12th, 2008 · 2:41 pm  →  News & New Releases

A decent “non-chain” restaurant in Madison A comedy, a horror flick, and an action movie An online task management tracking system An easy way to learn Flash A non-fiction book A gift for the technologically-minded An easy way to edit camera vids for YouTube! The one game I should play this year at GenCon A [...]

The Word on OddCon

April 7th, 2008 · 11:59 am  →  News & New Releases

I blogged about my experiences at OddCon on my blog, MLVwrites.com. George RR Martin, Kage Baker, Patrick Rothfuss and were all on hand. Here’s a snippet of the full review: Mr. Martin was extremely good-natured and a very savvy speaker, who obviously understood the craft. I was very impressed with him, because although he his [...]

Dear Readers: Notice on Editing and Revisions

April 5th, 2008 · 9:23 pm  →  News & New Releases

Hi folks, Thanks for stopping by and reading The Violet War. Just to let you know, my goal with this project is to make this book as readable and as entertaining as possible for you. As such, there will be times where I’ll go back in and tweak material because I’ve found that I’ve gone [...]

An Open Question to Fellow Authors

April 3rd, 2008 · 7:09 am  →  News & New Releases

So, I had a title for the free online novel I am offering for readers. The title was “The Condemned.” After doing a quick search online, I find out that there’s another book with the same title. Do I change the title? Stick with it? Any legal implications of keeping the same? Your thoughts would [...]

Chapter One for Book One of The Violet War series now Published!

April 2nd, 2008 · 6:49 pm  →  News & New Releases

I am happy to announce that Chapter One of Book One is live and ready for you to enjoy. Feel free to read it at your leisure. The first book in The Violet War series is dubbed Argentum. In this chapter we meet the main character, Sophie Miller, and her fiance, William Sands.