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 :)

Uncle John’s “Flush Fiction” is available at Amazon as well.

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 do stripping).

Anyways if you read it and like it, please consider leaving a review on Amazon!

p.s. Please remember you don’t need a Kindle to read this! There’s software available to read on your computer/smartphone and so on.

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 you are curious about this aspect of game dev.

Oh… you were expecting a writing update? Ah, okay. Even with all the home improvements I have done a bit of writing.

I have about ten chapters to go before I’m finished major revisions to novel #4, so I’m starting to get back on track. At this point in the schedule I should have started writing Novel #5 but that looks to be a couple weeks away (wasn’t planning on moving so that’s derailed me a bit).

Hoping I’ll catch up as I know summer will be slow writing months because the kids will be home with me full time.

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 me :) — is that Dave is also the first editor to buy something from me! Over a decade ago he purchased an article I had written “Give Them Pidgins” for Dragon Magazine. It was my first published work.

So I’m very pleased he’ll be working on this project.

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 in separate categories I can hope that both of them win:
‘‘Mama, We Are Zhenya, Your Son’’, Tom Crosshill (Lightspeed 4/11)
‘‘Ray of Light’’, Brad R. Torgersen (Analog 12/11)
[See the full list of Nebula nominees]

Additionally Brad is nominated for a Hugo for the same story and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer!!

Best of luck to both of them.

As well, Drew Karpyshyn, a writer I knew from back during my BioWare days (and successful author of several Star Wars novels) has signed a deal to have an original fantasy series published. Details here, or go here if you want to visit Drew’s website.

Very pleased for him and I can’t wait to read the novels.

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 that will not be immediately apparent from reading them as they take place in different locations and times.

(BTW if you are curious about my other published work, you can check out the list, grouped by genre or the full bibliography).

This morning I was rather horrified/amused to realize that my third largest online gathering ‘place’ was a test site I had created several months ago using wordpress and some social networking plug-ins. I had created the test site to explore a couple technical ideas I had.

Now it has a few hundred members on it! Without advertising or soliciting. And really without any features in the site.

Of course these members aren’t real people. They are spam bots and it seems that I’ve created a little virtual place for spam bots to go and solicit one another. There’s not a single living person in the entire mix.

Best of all the story is free to read at the Abyss and Apex website for a few months, after which it will be archived (you need to be a subscriber to read the archives). Please let me know what you think of it! And if you enjoy it tweets and shares will be very much appreciated.

This is my second story to see print this year. The first, ‘Touch the Dead’ is in the current issue of On Spec Magazine. As well, many of my previously published stories are available from Amazon, Smashwords, iTunes, Kobo, and for the Nook.