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The Future, the Past, Willful Ignorance, and Simon and Schuster

(In which I probably guarantee that I won’t be published by Simon and Schuster.) Preface I waited a day to talk about this, because I was pretty mad and ranty about it yesterday. Having given it a full twenty-four hours and evaluating my internal gauges, it turns out that I’m still angry, and that is [...]

Quick Notes on the #FrankfurtTOC

The Frankfurt TOC (Tools of Change) conference took place today, as part of the Frankfurt Book Fair (going on this week).  Like the TOC Conference earlier this year, FrankfurtTOC had a lot of folks there twittering the coolest ideas, giving a kind of stop-motion summary of the talks taking place. What follows are the posts [...]

Cloudy

Via Wordle, a word-cloud displaying the most commonly used words on my Twitter feed. Submitted without comment; I’m too busy being narcissistic.

Habituals Update

It’s been relatively quiet around Casa Testerman for the past week or so. There was a trip to Philadelphia, thick with unexciting wardrobe malfunctions, but otherwise I’m plugging along with writing, reading, and trying to get these damn habits locked in. Lemme sum up: Reading: It’s been a very good month for me as far [...]

Story Games: How to Play Them and Why

Mike Sugarbaker explains how we can take back entertainment from the networks and film industry by creating our own stories through story games.

Wizards of the Coast takes a… novel approach to dealing with PDF piracy

And by “novel”, I mean to say “utterly stupid and short-sighted.” Earlier this evening RPGNow, Paizo, and DriveThruRPG pulled all of their Wizards of the Coast PDF products (where both new and much much much older products were available) at WotC’s request.  The ability to purchase them ended at noon – the ability to download [...]

Tor.com gets a jump start on April 1

Tor.com / SaiPhai. Phantasee. The unavyrse. And related-er subjectz. / An Open Letter to Our Readers:. A common reaction to the new TÖRdötCÖM revolution has been to point out that our new name is actually pronounced exactly the same as our old name, a criticism which must be addressed in two parts: First, the pronunciation [...]

Adrift: 2nd month of posts complete

You can read the first two months of Adrift-related posts (from the @finnras Twitter site) here: Adrift » February. Adrift » March. The posts are organized in chronological, top to bottom order, so you can read the story in something like ‘typical book format’.