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Perhaps not so grand, but here I am, none the less!

It has been a busy four months or so, and though I'm not at a break between projects (I have plenty left to do on the adventure for Serenity Adventures, as well as some work for Rick Hershey on the Steampunk Musha RPG he has in the works), I am at a break between have-it-in-by-now-or-it's-late deadlines. The next "official" deadline (in red pen on my calendar) I have is in late May (when I will be away in Greece and Turkey, so I will certainly have it done early). It is such a nice feeling to be able to give myself permission to *not* work for one day. Then it's back with my nose to the grindstone the next!

I realize I didn't blog about DDXP and my experiences with 4th Edition, and this is in part because I am a bad blogger. It is more, however, due to my participation in the conversational reviews we're doing in an ongoing fashion on the current issue of Secret Identity Podcast. Max Saltonstall, Brian LeTendre, and I are better together as reviewers than we are apart (well, in my case, anyway), and if you don't mind listening to the audio version in 15 minute increments (that's the length of our segment, "Action Point Counter Point"), that's far better as far as gaming goes than what you'll see here on my blog.

In short: Read more... )

But there's more news here than just convention catch up. I should have posted this at the beginning of the month, since we're almost at the midway point: for the month of March, my story "The Valley" is being published/hosted on The Edge of Propinquity Web zine. (You may know them as [livejournal.com profile] t_e_o_p.) Mine is the guest story for the month: the rest of the zine is serial fiction from four dedicated authors who grow their worlds with each installment. It's a site well worth checking out--and of course, I'll be delighted to hear responses to the story.

Those seem like the major updates since I last posted. I expect to get back on track now that I'm back (and that the deadlines aren't hovering so closely around my neck as usual). I may even finally get to work on the novel I was supposed to have finished by... when did I commit to on this blog? The end of March? Heh, self-imposed deadlines don't have nearly the motivation factor they need....
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Wow, news about a different project! While I was at GenCon, Rick Hershey started working on the comic for Steampunk Musha, which means I really need to write the last handful of pages! In the mean time, the Web site has been launched, and the RPG will soon be out from Politically Incorrect Games. Keep an eye out for it!

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Empty Room Studios is proud to bring you the official launch of the Steampunk Musha Website.
www.steampunkmusha.com
Feel free to check out the artwork in the gallery, read the short fiction, or download cool bonuses for the upcoming rpg. And make sure you let us know about it in the forum!
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Imagine an island where tradition wars against technology. The last of the samurai have nowhere to turn, and yakuza thugs and street fighters now hold the respect of the streets. Shangti Cowboys have showed the island the power of firearms, and Mechanists have proven the triumph of machine over superstition. But the old ways linger. Kabukika, warriors of the theater and users of magic, hold onto their traditions, as do the Nikobo, who find that as the land travels farther from its traditions, its spirits grow restless...

Both humans and their gaijin cousins toil to rebuild from the last war, and the Clockwork Ronin, remnants of that era, struggle to find a home. Juunishi-po, a people born to resemble the forms of the zodiac, and keshou, distant relatives of goblins once kept as slaves, have learned to embrace the new technology and bring glory to their people. The Jinteki-Oni, half-me and half-demon, have come down from their mountain homes to learn the ways of men. Change has come quickly to the island, and these changes bring chaos, on which the demons of old still thrive.

This is the world of Rosuto-Shima, a setting for Iron Gauntlets. Introducing four new races, a host of new vocations, several new skills and styles, and four kits that combine background and vocation as a single unit, Steampunk Musha combines Asian flavor fantasy with Victorian technology to create a world of tradition, technology, and chaos. High fantasy and science fiction clash and combine in a conflict of old and new, father and son, clockwork and spiritual. The world is changing. How will you change it?

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Currently reading: In the Claws of the Tiger. I learned yesterday that I was using theosophical incorrectly, as it has Rosicrucian undertones. I basically mean playing with faith through fiction. I'll try to find a word that actually means that.
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Ah ha! Live journal is more clever than I realized, and it seems to be enabling me to post pictures from GenCon in a public forum. (I suspected they would have to be uploaded online somewhere else, first. I am relieved, as that was a quest I wasn't looking forward to.) I do recall having discovered this once before, but I'm just as happy to have discovered it again.

pictures! )

Should you happen to find other GenCon pictures featuring the White Silver crew on the Web, please let me know! (The publisher, of course, has some up at the White Silver Publishing Web site as well.)

Currently Reading: In the Claws of the Tiger by James Wyatt. I'm looking forward to writing a bit more about the theosophical leanings when I've finished the book! (I did sneak in a quick romance novel last night: Perils of the Heart by Jennifer Ashley. She writes very fun pirate romances.)
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Sorry for the delay in getting all of this posted. I've been struggling against the flu, which I believe I caught somewhere among all the hand shaking. This is comforting, as it means that some of the illness that I thought I was giving myself for being nervous was actually a physical ailment. I'm going to take comfort in that!

Full GenCon Report )

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