Hi All!
Friendly reminder that I will be signing books in person at the Maryland Renaissance Festival this Sunday, October 1st. I encourage you all to come out and meet me! I’ll be right outside the Page after Page Bookstore from 10-5 or so (barring food breaks!). Tickets have been absolutely selling like hotcakes, so I highly recommend getting yours online asap here!
If you can’t make it, remember you can always purchase my books here online.
Hope to see you all there!
Sigh. You Knew it was going to happen. Life gets in the way! Between other commitments, summer school, family events and the like, I did not reach my foal. Sadly I barely reached 20,000 words and about 11 chapters. That being said, I don’t think this is a failure, I’ve got a great story start, and I’m going to keep working at it this month. Ideally, I’d love to be able to finish this by the fall, which is a reasonable goal. Here’s my (reduced, but realistic) goals for this young adult fantasy novel. Ideally I’ll be able to get this done before regular NaNoWriMo begins, which gives me the chance to clear this out in November.
Here’s a tiny snippet of what I’ve been writing – very raw and unedited, but here it is.
“Lyria!” Artor called. More sounds of combat behind her. “Could use some help here!” She glanced over her shoulder. Artor was barely fending off the last vartu, using his warhammer and knife. Both combatants were bleeding, but the vartu’s size and strength were winning out. Lyria pulled her last arrow and aimed, waiting for a moment when the vartu would be more exposed.
In the meantime, if you want to learn a bit more about my steampunk novels in the world of the Steam Empire Chronicles, check out my Amazon page or check out my TTRPG materials at my DM’s Guild Page.
It has been nearly a year since I wrote an installment in Tallavanor’s Tales, and with the time allotted by summer break and a desire to get back into writing, I’ve taken the opportunity to compose some more of this tale. We’ve had quite the adventures in the past time, so summarizing it will be tricky, but hopefully I’ve done the last year’s events justice. (part 1 of 2, since it’s longer than I anticipated!)
Continue reading “Tallavanor’s Tales: It’s Been A While, and the World’s Turned Upside Down”Enjoy the new Tales of Tallavanor – now in audio form!
You – Hey you! Want to listen to all of Tallavanor’s Tales from the very beginning? Well now you can! Thanks to our Friends over at Fantasy Storytellers, you can listen to a large chunk of my character’s story. Pretty neat! I’ve embedded the first one below for your delight. Also – gotta say, I love the artwork! Someone’s got some talent over there, and I want to know who! If you want to reread Tallavanor’s Tales then check out the homepage for that here, and if you want to read more of my work, check out my novels and DM’s Guild Dungeons and Dragons Modules!
Exciting news everyone! I’ll be returning to the Maryland Renaissance Festival this fall. You’ll be able to get my alternate history steampunk series, as well as an exciting new TTRPG offering from things previously available only online. You won’t be able to get these anywhere else, so be sure to pick them up. I’ll have more details to come in the near future, but for now, be sure to book October 1st in your calendar to come and visit me to get your books signed! Of course, if you prefer to go any other weekend (and let’s be honest, if you’re like me, you want to go several weekends) you can always go and grab my book from then before or after that weekend as well!
Tickets go on sale in August, so be ready to grab them! You can get multi day passes now.
Howdy everyone! Let’s do our check in for the first week of NaNoWriMo! The as yet unnamed final project is in progress. Let’s look at this week’s stats….
Continue reading “Camp NaNoWriMo Check in #1 – End of Week 1”Yup, you heard right! I’m tackling Camp NaNoWriMo again this year, but with a simpler goal – write a young adult fantasy novel. I’m excited to use what I’ve learned from writing D&D campaigns and adventures in this world I’ve named Teraneath. It’s also the world that includes various D&D adventures I’ve already written such as Tales from Temerrit. I’ve got so much more to reveal to you in this series, but suffice to say you’ll have to wait until the ending for the big reveal, rather than getting tons of hints and tricks!
Continue reading “Camp NaNoWriMo 2023 – Here we go again…”Running a D&D Campaign for Middle Schoolers – the Tutorial and Learning to Play
As I mentioned in an earlier article, I’ve been running a D&D club for middle schoolers at a local school. I had more interest than slots, and decided to run the club just one day a week to maintain my sanity. Let’s quickly review what I said I would do…
Continue reading “Designing a D&D Campaign for Middle Schoolers – The Tutorial Section”Hi everyone,
It’s been a while, but I wanted to share with you that I’ve made a list of top 15 alternate history blogs. I’ve had the fortune to talk with and blog with several other people on this list, but I encourage you to go check them out! See the list here. I’ve got another exciting thing in the pipeline, but I’ll wait to share about it until it is ready to go.
In other news…. after a rough few months I hope to be returning to blogging and writing more frequently. Watch this space!
Designing a D&D Campaign for a Middle School afterschool program.
Greetings, and welcome back to Modern Papyrus! Today I’ll start looking at a new series of designing a Dungeons and Dragons campaign for a group of middle schoolers that fits into a shortened time period after school. This has it’s own challenges and restrictions that require some suitable tweaks to the standard D&D Campaign. So let’s take a look!
Continue reading “Designing a D&D Campaign for Middle Schoolers Afterschool: Episode 1”
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