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 have posted a short note congratulating On Spec on their 20th anniversary!
If you haven’t read both of these fine [...]

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 reason being that I’ll be writing a review shortly for a new book from O’Reilly called iPhone Game Development and [...]

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 first (chronologically) in a series of stories featuring Wanderer. The ‘end’ of the series was my first story in print. It [...]

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 wait until Joni Labaqui (the contest director) had posted the results. During the wait I’ve been scouring the Writers of the [...]

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 last year for the “The Button Bin” has a couple of new stories, including “The Blessed Days” in Tales of the [...]

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 Neverwinter Nights, specifically Expansion Pack #2. Yes, you read that correctly. The team I was leading was focused on the second [...]

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 added directly to a visual surface and resized and moved however the user desires. Timelines or Storyboards can be added [...]

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 just keep my mouth shut here.
Every Witch Way
by Joanna M. Weston
This story is about the only man in a family [...]

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 stories and I was pleased to see what Erika McGinnis had created for my story. Though I have had much experience [...]

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 and not the Recycling Bin”
Feedback (re: bug reports, user analysis, critiques) is essential for many creative endeavors, from writing stories or [...]