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LoreSmyth, Tales, and Project Updates!

Some exciting news!

First off, I’ve been hired by Chris Van Der Linden, the founder of the third-party tabletop RPG publisher The LoreSmyth, to work (essentially) as his right-hand guy. I’ve been working on blog posts, social media, PR outreach, and overall strategy for the LoreSmyth for the past two weeks, and I’ll be running a D&D game at Aethercon this year using the company’s original campaign setting, “Savage Dawn.”

Second, I’ve signed a contract with Fable Labs, a company that serves as a publisher for independent interactive stories (via an app called “Tales”), to work on one of their internal story ideas. I’ve been signed on to write a 26-“episode” series, starting with a three-episode pilot! I can’t disclose more than that, but the story is right up my alley.

Third, I’ve started up my second D&D Legends group at Hex & Co, which means I have roughly 12 people who are paying a subscription to play with me in my custom-built world.

Between Hex & Co, the LoreSmyth, Tales, and other freelance and volunteer writing projects, my schedule has filled up pretty rapidly, which means I have to put some of my other projects on hold.

This means that Black Heaven: a Necromantic Dating Sim will be shelved for now, and I’ll only be working intermittently on A Board Game of Thrones: a Game of Thrones Board Game.

However, I’m still working on new fiction, and have at least two stories that have full drafts completed, including a new one about Yute and one about Ryu-Ito.

 

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Outer Places, GIFCON, and Clarkesworld Magazine!

Three big pieces of news!

First, I’m taking on the temporary title of Interim Managing Editor for Outer Places, the sci-fi/science site where I work! My official title is Staff Editor, but until a new managing editor is found, I’ll be taking on that role and managing OP’s output and marketing. I’ll probably be heading out to SDCC, WonderCon, and NYCC this coming year to help cover events and speak on new panels too, which is amazing!

Second, Clarkesworld Magazine accepted my new pitch for an essay on magic and worldbuilding! For the past several years I’ve been bugged by magic in different books and games, especially The Elder Scrolls, because it’s often treated like a science where mages can ‘experiment’ and harness ‘magical energy.’ The way I see it, treating magic like science will inevitably create a domino effect within the fantasy world that leads it to turn into a world like ours, one where magic is harnessed like any other natural phenomenon. Magic will stop being magic, and Middle-Earth will become just ‘Earth’.

Third, I submitted a presentation proposal to GIFCON, the Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations convention, outlining a lecture I want to give on ARGs and The Rats in The Walls, my April 2015 project. I got an email last week that my proposal is under consideration, and that I should hear back around mid-January. We’ll see!

Finally, two of my friends got me a new poster:

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Looking forward to 2017!