Now Available: Call to Battle

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Now available on DriveThruFiction: the 1996 novel Call to Battle, inspired by the RAGE CCG, is now available in PDF for the first time! Book One in the Saga of Jay No-Name Life’s tough enough for Jay Caldwell. He’s trapped at military school, estranged from his stepfather, and brutalized by his sadistic headmaster. Things only … Read more

V20 Ghouls: An Outline & Inspirations

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Back in September I shared the V20 Ghouls Outline Panel Recap, and since then I’ve hired a team of writers. This post gives you a quick version of the outline that we hashed out from the Outlining Panel, and what we’ve been working on since then: Prologue: Opening Fiction 5,000 Words – Monica Valentinelli Introduction … Read more

Moon-Banished

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I’m on the redlining charge now. That’s where I read through all the first drafts and mark up comments and corrections, everything from use of the passive voice to rules that don’t do what they claim to do, before passing back to the writers for second drafts. Of the book, I’m about halfway through — 109,000 words out of 215,000. I can normally redline 10 to 20 thousand words each day, but it’s in-depth work that involves keeping the whole contents of the book in my head and cross-referencing everything. That’s why I’m being even quieter than normal — I’m reading, but I need to focus on the redlines so don’t have time to respond just now. I am listening, though. Also? Sleep-deprived. That one’s nothing new, though.

Anyway: idigam won, 42 to 14. So let’s talk about the Moon-Banished.

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An Interesting Conversation About Schedules

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One of the reasons that I love writing the weekly Monday Meeting Notes blog https://theonyxpath.com/category/news/monday-meeting/ is the real dialogue that is possible in the comments. This week, there was a great comment expressing concern for the way some books are listed in the updates section of the blog with the same notation week after week. Here was … Read more

Now Available: Tale of the Visiting Flare

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Now available on DriveThruComics in PDF and print! The young warrior known as Visiting Flare wanders Vaneha in search of the answers to the jumbled broken puzzle that is his past. In times of stress he catches fleeting glimpses of a time when his power reshaped history, but he does not know whether those visions … Read more