I have every issue of Black Gate… a fantastic magazine. I don’t think I’ve posted any reviews for it yet though, so I’ll start with the latest issue. (Note: I subscribe to the print issue, but there is now a digital copy available too).
The Beautiful Corridor
Jonathan L. Howard
Good, fun adventure tale, with a thief daring [...]

Dragon Offerings
Janni Lee Simner
Nice story about an alternative future world where Dragon’s exist and the consequences of their existence in relation to one teenager, in particular.
Unicorn Chase
Douglas Empringham
A rather long fantasy story concerning the investigation of a witch’s death. Competently told, but I never really symphasized with any of the major characters in the [...]

Peachy
David Tallerman
A cat sits outside, watching and waiting for the inevitable. A weird little short-short, it was effective.
What the Tongue Will Taste
Sam J Drain
Ick. A strong story, but a disturbing one, the lengths a man will go to indulge every possible sexual urge he has.
Collecting James
Geoffrey Girard
What if there were a physical way of capturing [...]

Realize this review is out of order from the other Murky Depths reviews, but figured later is better than never.
The Nightrunner
Christopher Hawkins
More a vignette than a full story, it was okay, but did not really grab my attention.
So this is Mi
Allison Littlewood
This story of a woman discovering a secret behind her brother’s [...]

I’ve added a review for Mobile 3D Game Development to my amazon reviews and I’ve cleared up how to use the Flash Story Reader on your own website to read stories as they were meant to be read.

This will be the first of ten posts, one for each year that I worked for BioWare.

Preamble
After graduating the summer of 1999 from the University of Alberta I set out to look for a job. You know, to pay that massive student loan I had.
I sent about fifty resumes out, mostly programming jobs. But one [...]

Writers – check out this little flash slideshow to understand what YourOtherMind can do for you.

Some of the features mentioned will not be available until version 8.2, due for release Fall 2009.

#flash {
width:500px;
height:300px;
background-color:#333;
border:1px outset #000;
text-align:center;
cursor:pointer;
}
#flash h2 {
font-size:40px;
color:#fff;
margin-top:80px;
}

Click here to play movie

// script inside the domReady method is executed after page is scriptable
flashembed.domReady(function() {// get [...]

Kristine Kathryn Rusch has a very interesting series of blogs detailing her experiences with being a freelance writer. She will be writing and posting these and eventually publishing them. Good reading so far and I encourage you to check them out.

Occasionally I come across articles like this one from the Motley Fool where you see a rather negative forecast for the gaming industry despite a general and steady growth.
Normally I disregard these naysayers and continue to invest in gaming stock but obviously with the recession and the massive drop most gaming stocks took, I find [...]

After months of debate, I have decided upon a new name for my writing organization software (Keeper/Worgan).
And the new name is?
YourOtherMind (you may call it Yom, if you prefer).
As I talk a bit about in this post it has become so important to have a unique name, in terms of people finding and talking [...]