Fave magazines
Two of my favorite magazines are On Spec and Black Gate (they cater to two different readings tastes but both provide intelligent and entertaining stories every issue). Anyways the folks on the Black Gate blog…
iPhone Developer’s Cookbook – Review
I originally purchased this book while at BioWare in anticipation of working on an iPhone game and so it had sat on my unread pile for a bit. I finally decided to tackle it, one…
The Prophet
My story ‘The Prophet’ is now available in the anthology END OF DAYS: AN APOCALYPTIC ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 2 from Living Dead Press. You can order the anthology directly from Amazon. This story is actually the…
Brent Knowles – Writer of the Future!
Win! Well the news is (finally!) out and I am ecstatic. I’ve placed first in the Writers of the Future Contest for the third quarter. I’ve known for a couple weeks, but have had to…
Nebula Season
The nomination period for the Nebula Awards has opened up and several writer blogs that I follow are now listing eligible works. Here are a couple of so far: Mike Allen, who had a nomination…
BioWare-Brent Year 4 (2002 – 2003)
This is the fourth of ten posts, one for each year that I worked for BioWare. Neverwinter Nights Expansion Packs So it was around this time that we started working on the expansion packs for…
StickIt Pages
StickIt pages are a type of notebook page in YourOtherMind, the Writer’s Organizer. They allow for a visual organization of characters, scenes, research and story/novel drafts. StickIt Pages What does it do? Notes can be…
Review On Spec #78
Cover by Cristy Road Just finished reading the latest On Spec. This is issue #78 (Fall 2009). From the Sea by Brent Knowles Well, I kind of know the author of this one so I’ll…
“The Tale of Lady Spite” as told in Tales of the Talisman
Received my contributor’s copies of Tales of the Talisman Volume V Issue 2, in which my dark fantasy story “The Tale of Lady Spite” appears. Tales of the Talisman has custom artwork for all the…
The Lazy Designer: Providing Useful Feedback
This is a section from Brent Knowles’s Lazy Designer design best practices book. Read the rest of the sections on the Lazy Designer homepage. “How to Submit Feedback that Will Make it into the Game…
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