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Selection_893 It’s going to be a busy weekend.
There’s the Aethercon, of course.
We kick-off tonight with an interview with me and my boss Gionata dal Farra about GGStudio.
It will be 10PM for us.
Then, tomorrow, I’ll start at 6PM local time with the panel about sandbox games, and then after an half-hour pause, I’ll start the first demo game.
It’s going to be fun, and it’s weird to thing just two months back, with my old connection, this would have been impossible.

But there’s other stuff in the works. Continue reading →

10 November 2017
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Central Station!

I am very proud to announce that in the next weeks I’ll be working on the translation of Lavie Tidhar’s Central Station, that Acheron Books will publish in 2018.

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7 November 2017
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Planning the Serial – part I

170px-Spaziergang_im_Garten_Amarna_Berlin Be warned, what follows is a post on writing, so you might find it boring, uninteresting or basically a waste of time.
Forewarned is forearmed or something like that.

As I mentioned, my next big work will be called AMARNA and it will be a serial.
Not a series – like all the rest of the stuff I wrote so far – but a serial.
What’s the difference? Continue reading →

6 November 2017
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Thriller of the Week!

I am quite happy to announce that Pro Se Press’ latest project, The Pro Se Thriller of the Week has been launched today with the publication of the first HARRIDAN story.

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“PRO SE THRILLER OF THE WEEK,” says Tommy Hancock, Editor in Chief of Pro Se Productions, “is a marriage of prose storytelling with a model that has worked for decades, first in radio, then in tv and even in comic books. Regularly scheduled ‘episodes’ of stories released once a week, spotlighting four different series. Ebooks allow for publishers to do so many unique things, and Pro Se intends to take full advantage of that, setting up our own network of sorts with scheduled ‘programming’ that will appeal to fans of all types and create an excitement for all the stories to come. We are very excited ot kick this concept off with PRO SE THRILLER OF THE WEEK and have so much more to come.”

Featuring a fantastic cover as well as digital formatting and logo design by Antonino Lo Iacono and Marzia Marina, HARRIDAN: SACRIFICIAL LAMB is available for only $1.49 at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0776M2KPF/ref=sr_1_1…. The PRO SE THRILLER OF THE WEEK is also on Kindle Unlimited, meaning members can get each episode for free.

And yes, hopefully you’ll see something of mine in this series, too.

6 November 2017
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See you at the Aethercon!

What about a virtual gaming convention?

Selection_893 Aethercon is the largest online convention for roleplaying games and gamers, and it will take place on the next weekend, between November 10 and 12. It will feature demo games, speed painting tournaments, panels and interviews. There will be publishers’ stores and vendor booths.
Everything online, managed through Hangouts, Skype etc.

I will be there with my friends of GGStudio and Savage Worlds Italia, and I’ll bring Hope & Glory to the table.
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6 November 2017
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The face of Nefertiti

Nefertiti.
Chief consort of Akenathen.
Hereditary Princess.
Nofretete_Neues_Museum Great of Praises.
Lady of Grace.
Sweet of Love.
Lady of The Two Lands.
Main King’s Wife, his beloved.
Lady of all Women.
Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Queen of Amarna.

Briefly, this last one: after the death of Akenathen she moved from Amarna, by now a fallen city, back to Thebes, where she probably reigned as pharaoh.
And she had a weird taste in headgear. Continue reading →