Recent content by Christopher Heath

I personally love the look of this map. Maybe it is nolstalgia. Reminded me of Greyhawk all the way. I still remember just staring at those two maps for hours, checking out all the cool names. Anyway, it gets my vote as cool. Big Fish Lake does sound pretty lame, though, honestly. You can...

Do they charge more for shipping if they split orders like that? I hope not.

Oh, I also heard R&R took out a full page ad in the Oct. issue of Dragon magazine for the six books they were releasing. I live in a small town that doesn't carry Dragon and I never got a chance to check it out. Can anyone let me know if the book was advertised in it. -Chris

I think the way it's generally done is they start out hard cover or trade paperback, then later down the line if demand dictates they go to mass-market. I'm not an expert on it either, but I have a good friend that used to work at a book store and he said basically that's the way it's done.

Joe, Thanks alot! I appreciate it, I really do. Yeah, it's a trade paperback. I think it'd have to sell a gazillion copies before it gets turned into a mass-market paperback. I believe the original print run was 10,000 copies. Thanks again. -Chris

Bret, Yeah, Chad Corrie's a great guy; we email back and forth. He's actually the one who informed me that R&R was taking submissions, so I owe him a debt of gratitude. Mr. Fox was saying that some of these movie/television studios take up to a year to decide on a project, so he told us to just...

Thanks Krug. If anyone is interested in the novel, the tone is dark fantasy. I hate cutesy fantasy, so nothing of that nature is in the book. My influences are H.P. Lovecraft, Michael Moorcock, Tolkien, Fritz Leiber, Robert E. Howard---so expect resonant tones from this vein of storytelling. I...

My experience? Well, I submitted a novel, but it was rejected as the main character was half-vampire and it was told in the first person. The publisher loved the writing style but thought it too risky for a first time novel (the glut of vampire stories in the market). I pitched him an idea for a...

Just posting to announce that my fantasy book Against the Drimlith (a major publication by R&R Endeavors, Inc.) has hit the shelves or can be ordered through Amazon.com. For those of you who have bought the Heathen Oracle d20 product From Novice to Master may remember the prestige class Malkan...

We at Heathen Oracle appreciate Joe taking the time to review From Novice to Master, and he makes some good points, but I think some need discussed... 1)core classes that really don't need another version like the bounty hunter, duelist and gladiator. I beg to differ. First off, they aren't...