Submissions

Whew! Busy day!

As of this afternoon I have four novels and twenty-six stories out at various markets.

I also have another four stories fairly close to being submission ready!

No wonder I never have any time to be online :)





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May 18, 2012 – 4:31 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Comments (1)


Hi! I was a designer with BioWare for ten years and lead designer for Dragon Age: Origins. Check out my full bibliography or read my "Lazy Designer" series of books and learn how to start a career in game design

In the Wild

Found this at a Chapters book store the other day. Pleased to see an anthology containing one of my stories out in the ‘wild’. Uncle John’s “Flush Fiction” is available at Amazon as well.

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May 14, 2012 – 7:39 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

How to Script for Games

I’ve made an excerpt from my second Lazy Designer game design book free for the next few days. Download it here. This excerpt is about *scripting* and not stripping (there’s been past confusion and disappointment and for the record I’d just like to point out that I know a lot more about scripting than I …

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May 10, 2012 – 7:47 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Game Reviews, Second Project, The Lazy Designer | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

Interesting Podcast – Irrational Interviews

Thanks to Mordi Peshkess for bringing to my attention (through comments here) a recent Irrational Interview with Ken Levine and Amy Hennig about their roles as Creative Directors. I found this quite an interesting interview, with them discussing various issues and processes, from writing to management to dealing with feedback. Definitely worth checking out if …

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May 9, 2012 – 6:21 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Game Reviews | Comments (6)

Update!

So this is what I got done over the past few days: – Installed a timer for bathroom fan – Ran a new Cat5e cable through the walls – Installed shut-off valves in the master bath and put in a new faucet Oh… you were expecting a writing update? Ah, okay. Even with all the …

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May 1, 2012 – 7:28 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Comments (4)

Dave Gross joins as writer for Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition

For those of you following the progress of the new Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, I just wanted to share the word that Dave Gross has joined their team. http://www.baldursgate.com/news/2012/04/26/announcing-dave-gross-as-lead-writer-for-baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition/ Dave’s a fantastic writer. He has several published novels and I encourage you to check them out. He’s also a skilled editor. More importantly — to …

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April 27, 2012 – 10:38 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Game Reviews | Tagged | Comments (18)

I knew them when…

Hey, I’m still busy moving and doing edits on the novel. Hence the relative silence online. That said I do want to highlight some good news. Two Writers of the Future winners from the same year as me have received Nebula nominations. Huge (and belated) congrats out to Tom and Brad. Since they are nominated …

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April 20, 2012 – 3:18 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Tagged , , | Comments (5)

Fantasy Stories

With the publication of ‘Stone Eater‘ I now have four published fantasy stories. The other three are: From the Sea The Monastery The Tale of Lady Spite And I have another 3 sold and awaiting publication: Onion Farmer Bone Dreaming The Daughter’s Oath All of these fantasy stories share the same world though I suspect …

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April 17, 2012 – 8:09 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged | Comments (4)

My (3rd) Largest Online Community

I’ve been building up various social networks over the past few years in an attempt to learn more about social networking and to also increase my visibility as a writer (and hopefully find readers). This morning I was rather horrified/amused to realize that my third largest online gathering ‘place’ was a test site I had …

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April 11, 2012 – 8:05 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Read Now: Stone Eater

Delighted to see that my story ‘Stone Eater’ is now available to read at Abyss and Apex, the online magazine of speculative fiction. This fantasy story was one of the first I finished writing after retiring from BioWare. Best of all the story is free to read at the Abyss and Apex website for a …

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April 2, 2012 – 4:57 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged , , , | Comments (42)