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In the interest of keeping people up to date on my experiences: The PDF book is currently #39 on the Top 100 Release this month on RPGNow (across all categories). It is the #13 best seller in the Fantasy d20 Category category, and it is the #2 best seller in the d20 Class/Race Books category...

I enjoyed this post, too. It's interesting to read about the "other side", since I just wrote about my experiences with having my first book published as a PDF (you can read about it here, although I know you already read it, Destan). As far as layout, artwork, and all of that, I was...

Same thing with me! As a fellow marketing person (advertising for me), I'd be very interested in reading what problems you encountered on this.

This morning (Pacific Time) when I checked at 9:30am, it was now up to #48. :)

So, I just checked the "Top Sales Lists" on RPGNow and see that my book is ranked #85 so far this month. I have no idea what that means relative to other books because I actually never looked at those lists before. So, after two days, it's #85 but I don't have any idea how many sales that...

I read your two blog entries and am awaiting Part 3. Very interesting, encouraging, and frustrating at the same time. :) Good luck, and keep submitting those stories.

Okay, I looked at it again and I think there's a good amount of "fluff" in the book, particularly in the sections about Family Icons (heraldry), clothing, court games, and creating a manor (including the types of people who work there). There's also a fiction section woven throughout the book...

That part was fun to write, and I'm glad it's still a part of the book considering that it's not typical of the Quintessential series to do that.

I like your class and a lot of the ideas in it. Just some random thoughts after glancing over it (I must be getting old - I had a lot of trouble reading the small type). :) * No mention of armor proficiencies, but I'm assuming it's either Light or No Armor based on the weapon proficiencies...

I'll drink to that! Seriously, I found that writing is a pretty solitary business, but I tried to involve my wife when I could, chatting about ideas with her and getting an "outsider's perspective" on what I was doing. She didn't always have the time to read everything I was writing, but she...

Cool avatar pic! I remember that from Dragon #89. Or was it #86? There was a whole series of those chess-style paintings by the same artist, Dennis Beauvais, I want to say, that were on #83, #86, and #89 and then he did another non-chess painting on #92. Anyway, there was a good article...

FYI, there are a few sections in the "A" list that don't have commas between names, so watch for that when adding the names to your list. Also, I just sent out the Eberron CS to the "A List", but also accidentally forgot to uncheck a John Coltrane CD so that got shared, too. Just ignore it. :)

Congratulations! Did you self-publish or did you freelance? What product? Were your experiences similar to mine in terms of timing, rewrites, etc.? Have you gotten any reviews yet? (Welcome to "20 Questions"... well, "Four Questions"). I'm awaiting reviews and customer feedback as well.

I absolutely agree but I think that most of those were dealt with as Performances (Perform skill) rather than craft. Perform (Haiku) and Perform (Flower Arranging) and stuff like that, I think, were considered "High" skills. I believe that they got 4 skills points per level. As a...

I'm not sure where you heard this or if you're joking, but this is not true. Mongoose has an entire staff of full-time writers who all are paid employees, of course. I'm a freelancer, but I did get paid. Mongoose Publishing is a professional company and I am very pleased to have been able...

Glad you all enjoyed the saga. I was looking through my old e-mails and remembered that you got in a bad car accident right around the time we were corresponding about this. No worries! I started another one right after I submitted this one. It's been a slow process - I got into dividing...

Well, that's hard to answer. It kind of does both. :) Basically, I did not change the class at all - the mantra behind the Quintessential Series from Mongoose is not to change the base classes - only to provide more options and alternatives. So, this book does not alter the base aristocrat...

Thanks for your interest. I used a lot of resources when writing the book, including books and websites on the Carolingian-era, ancient Rome, ancient China, feudal Japan, ancient Korea, medieval Europe, and 15-18th century Europe as well as many more. The ideas are sprinkled throughout the...

So, today I got an e-mail telling me that a d20 book I wrote was finally published today - in PDF format on RPGNow. I'm not here to push the sales of the book (that's being taken care of in the d20 Publisher's Forum). Rather, I thought it might be interesting for people to know how it all came...

I did a LOT of research for this book, from how the aristocracy differs by culture and time period, to the construction of manor houses, to the meaning behind the symbols used in Western and Eastern heraldry, to aristocratic clothing (just to name a few!). I think a good bibliography is always...