... but hitting a "finish a new book manuscript the night before heading out to a comic con to promote your other books" deadline is kind of fucking amazing. Of course it's now 2 a.m. and nobody's around to celebrate with me, and the dog is just staring at me like "GO TO BED."
And then I find out I gave some writing advice to a teacher a few months back and he now incorporates it into his classroom and it legit helps his students.
Okay, maybe not ALL writing advice is bullshit.
For the past few months I've been working on a series of novellas called the Dungeon Crawlers, in which a group of friends find themselves trapped in a Dungeons & Dragons meets the Descent style game. And in all honesty, without Gygax's work, the Dungeon Crawlers wouldn't exist, and it's amazing, as someone who grew up super geeky, to see how this ostracized game has,...
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So last year, I wrote a book that was sort of my answer to writing a different kind of Atlantis story, about a young woman who finds out she's the heir to Atlantis and has to stop her war-mongering aunt and isolationist father from either killing each other, or starting a war with the surface. One reviewer said "Arthur Curry's got nothing on this girl,"...
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So one of my newer novellas, "The Players Guide to Dungeon Crawling," is free until Saturday at midnight EST if anyone's interested. It's a spinoff of "Roll for Initiative" and follows a group of tabletop gamers who get trapped in a fictional world based on a cursed dungeon-crawling style board game.
Book 2 just came out a few days ago. I'm having a blast with...
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So I've got a new side project going on, a digital-only (for now) series of novellas about a team of role-players who become trapped in a cursed fantasy game. The first novella in the series, The Players Guide to Dungeon Crawling, just launched and it's free from now til Saturday at midnight. If you're into RPGs, D&D, gaming, comedic adventures, or my YA series...
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I grew up in Boston. We'd long ago mastered a good drunken tacky St. Paddy's. But for a while, I lived in Galway, and I spent countless days in Cork and Dublin. I jugged along Coast Road buffeted by the winds off Galway Bay. I prowled Dominick Street and Grafton Street and have memories of Ireland that come crashing back at unexpected moments, because if...
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Got invited onto a talk to to talk about my books, writing for YA, the comic con culture, and seeing characters you created cosplayed for the first time. This was an awesome day. (So glad I wore a slimming shirt on camera.) I'm the first segment in the episode. Check it out! (I'm kinda proud.)
I'm an ex-journalist. I'm always tied into the news. Constant barrage of information. All day, all the time. But today I was at a Boston Comic Con to promote my superhero books and cut off and the world went crazy with hate and anger and I feel guilty for having a good day when so many others spent a day afraid and angry.
Processing that...
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That pot of coffee seven hours ago has not worn off yet. This definitely qualifies as a bad life choice.