I’ve received some recent emails and comments related to my post on turning your Dungeons and Dragons campaign into novel. It gives me the warm fuzzies to know that people are still reading this poor, neglected blog. It has also spurred me to ask why people are so interested in writing a D&D novel based [...]
Don’t write a Dungeons and Dragons novel
Filed under Soapbox on January 18, 2011
Tagged: Dungeons & Dragons, Erevis Cale, fantasy fiction, Forgotten Realms, Paul Kemp, R. A. Salvatore, Wizards of the Coast
A hundred years from now
Filed under Writing Journal on January 15, 2008
Tagged: 4E, Dungeons & Dragons, Forgotten Realms
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 [...]
Young Dragons ’07 releases
Filed under Market Report on May 8, 2007
Tagged: Eberron, Ed Gentry, Erik Scott de Bie, Forgotten Realms, Jaliegh Johnson, Marshiela Rockwell, Rosemary Jones
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 [...]
My own space
Filed under Writing Journal on December 26, 2006
Tagged: Forgotten Realms, Maiden of Pain, MySpace
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 [...]
15 Things about books and me
Filed under Trivia on December 15, 2005
Tagged: Bible, Dragonlance, Dungeons & Dragons, Forgotten Realms, Hardy Boys, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, memes, Narnia, Robert Jordan, Shannara, Star Wars, Terry Brooks, Wheel of Time
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 [...]

