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The heartbreaking aspect of the gig is the lack of cross-over marketing for the artist. One could assume that if writer X wrote an...

Isaac Asimov wrote plenty of tie-in fiction. The idea that a successful writer "debases" themselves writing a tie-in is basically a...

In this day and age, award winning writer's can't turn down any project they feel they are a fit for. On a related note Kij Johnson...

I see they’re continuing to hire people who worked for EN Publishing. James Haeck and now Leon Barillaro!

I'll counter my sad story with a more promising one. We've all heard of sci-fi and fantasy writers that also did ttrpgs here and there...

100% Local gaming metas are all over the place. "Dead" games are alive and well at one FLGS and one state/province/district over another...

Never mistake where you happen to live to be representative of the world.

Ah. Now Critical Role has to avoid the classic "ttrpg lighting in the bottle" trap. You keep selling out, so you keep printing, each...

When I was a reporter, I did a story on the state of the small Sheriff's county jail and was told so many jail break stories by the...

Not any more. They’ve added extra stuff which has delayed fulfilment until May.

My workspace is pretty conservative in terms of dress and office/cubicle decoration. While I still have a bit of hesitation in coming...

Azul is a good one. I don't get to play boardgames that often... I have a retired former neighbour who invites me to a games night the...

Congratulations!

Ticket to Ride and Azul are her go tos. Love Letter once in a while. We are also diving into the "Murder mystery in a box" genre that's...

Same. Probably the most bizarre interaction I had in the 90s was during a summer job where an older lady assumed the only reason a grown...