Have you been published? Share your experiences here.

[MarkAHart]

Richards,

I remember several of your "Ecology" articles -- you do excellent work.

I was initially devastated to read a review ...of Dragon magazine as a whole, over its multi-decade history, and have the reviewer decide that basically everything in the magazine was great except for my Monster Hunters "Ecology" articles. Yes, in his mind I was the single worst thing about the magazine's entire history.

Reviews like that demonstrate a poor reviewer, IMHO. Still, stuff like that can't be enjoyable to come across.

Thanks for your ideas and thoughts, as well as the inspiration. Mongoose puts out a lot of excellent product, and it is neat that your work in DRAGON had a part to play in working with Mongoose.

 

[tensen]

You got it. Feel free to drop by next time you're around if your mom/wife/female acquaintance needs sewing supplies. Here's a map: http://www.happysewingroom.com/Map.htm

This is my mom's fabric store. I live in the attic (don't all writers live in the attic?!), quietly doing my thing and avoiding Cabela's.

You know, if I knew about that before the Origins trip, we probably would have stopped by on our way out there... That was probably hour 3 or 4 on the 10 hour trip.

 

[Napftor]

You know, if I knew about that before the Origins trip, we probably would have stopped by on our way out there... That was probably hour 3 or 4 on the 10 hour trip.

Well, tensen, there's always next year.

 

[Napftor]

Razzifrazitt...double post

 

[barsoomcore]

I'm just getting my feet wet at all this...

My first RPG publication was the Free Lunches adventure for Dire Kobold last year. It was a pretty exciting moment for me, I can tell you, and seeing the finished PDF all illustrated and whatnot was a real thrill. I called up my old gaming buddies from junior high school and we had a good nostalgic chat about the old days.

After that I got selected for a couple of entries in Vanishing Goblin's upcoming "Rooms With A View" project. And I'm now hard at work on the first mini-game for EN World Gamer which promises to be tons of fun. There's a couple of other projects on the go, and I'm hopeful of keeping up a more-or-less steady line of work. I don't have any illusions about being able to go full-time anytime soon, nor do I particularly want to -- my day job is a good one.

I do a lot of "free" work that doesn't get edited but keeps my hand in -- my Story Hours, my websites and so on. Hal asked me to do the website design for his The New Americans website, which I did. And of course doing the Modern SRD Online was pretty much a full-time job for a while.

 

[Carnifex]

I'll copy/paste my post from Samothdm's similar thread over to here:

I'm another person whose first work was published recently (Steam & Steel: A Guide to Fantasy Steamworks published by En Publishing). I'll summarise my experiences here:

I was originally asked by Horacio to write something steampunk-y for the now non-existant Horade Publishing company, because he was a big fan of my story hour, and my homebrew features some steam tech and steampunk elements. I was originally intending to write a little mini-setting, like a sample town or city, with a few minor rules for steamtech equipment attached. It then ballooned into a proper steamtech sourcebook, which I naively originally thought would only be 32-64 pages. It ended up 128 pages long

Anyway. I was well into writing Steam & Steel for Horade, when Horade went down. Basically Horacio went out of contact for a while, and I was left with this nearly-completed manuscript for a sourcebook and no one to publish it. I waited quite a while in case Horacio resurfaced as it was him who had encouraged me to write it in the first place, but in the end I decided to see if EN Publishing would be interested. Contacted Hellhound, showed him the manuscript, and he was indeed interested Sadly problems with the art delayed it for months, but it was a gerat relief to see it finally published this month!

I'm now working on several new projects. Due to my work on Steam & Steel, I was 'headhunted' by Malladin's Gate Press to help with one of their lines. I also sent a proposal to Enkwell Press for another sourcebook which they accepted, and also sent in some stuff to open calls as well.

I have no idea how typical my experience is of getting published; what I do now know is the terrifying experience of waiting for the first reviews of your product to turn up, and now the elation of those reviews being good ones

 

[EricNoah]

I wrote four articles for Dragon Magazine back in the early 90s, but only two saw print. One of those, "Right from the Start" (Dragon #208) I can't even bear to read because it's just so bad. The other, "Hitting the Books" (Dragon #212) was one of the first writing experiences where the words just poured out -- I really had the "holy fire" within me during that one, and it was a topic I felt very strongly about. That was a much better experience for me overall.

Seeing my work in print was such a thrill, I can't even describe it except to say that when I opened that first magazine and saw my article the room swam before my eyes.

I harbor a secret desire to write adventures for Dungeon Magazine and actually started a couple (one was Dreamland -- http://webpages.charter.net/ericnoah/noahrpg/dreamland.htm ) back in 2E days, but I don't know that I have what it takes to do it. But if you see me published anywhere in the future, that'll be it.

 

[Richards]

What were the two articles that didn't get published about, Eric?

Johnathan

 

[EricNoah]

What were the two articles that didn't get published about, Eric?

Johnathan

One presented three variations on the Witch kit for 2e (a potion brewer, a spirit worshipper, and a demon summoner). The other was about designing campaigns around a "boss" -- giving the PCs a boss who provides them with jobs to do. Neither was anything special.

 

[LondonReign]

I harbor a secret desire to write adventures for Dungeon Magazine and actually started a couple (one was Dreamland -- http://webpages.charter.net/ericnoah/noahrpg/dreamland.htm ) back in 2E days, but I don't know that I have what it takes to do it. But if you see me published anywhere in the future, that'll be it.

Aww, hell, Eric, if I can do it, you certainly can! (Proud author of "The Iron Satyr", cover adventure for Dungeon 108). I remember your website with your Planescape adventures. Great stuff!

And BTW, what is the name of this site again???