If you haven’t heard yet, Rich Baker revealed that the fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons will advance the Forgotten Realms timeline to 1479. That’s more than 100 years from the current setting. (I’m basing this on the year listed in recently released FR novels.) The Spellplague alluded to in the Grand History of the [...]

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Once again, the self-titled “Young Dragons” of WotC are making their presence felt in the Realms. I’ve also included the debut novel of Marcy Rockwell, a fellow Maiden of Pain contestant and honorary Young Dragon, whose entry into the world of Eberron is a long time coming and well deserved. Depths of Madness: Book 1 [...]

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After reading a great article on J. A. Konrath‘s blog about marketing tools, I decided to create a MySpace profile over the weekend. I also tried out a friend-adding bot. I found a Forgotten Realms group and used the bot to send out about 200 “add as friend” requests to the group members, along with [...]

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I don’t normally participate in memes, but I’ve seen this one on quite a few author blogs and it’s definitely topical. 1. According to my mother, I came home after the first day of kindergarten, plopped down on the couch with a book, and started to cry after only a few moments of flipping through [...]

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“Boxed” would be more accurate, but doesn’t make as catchy a title. Patience, I will explain. The desk on which my computer sits, the desk where I do my writing, has two sets of shelves, bracketing the space where the monitor sits. The set of shelves on the right is divided in half vertically (so [...]

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