The review is coming in the next 36 hours, but in the meantime, check out this trailer.
Target achieved on Patreon and a 12k-word story on demand
I am extremely happy to announce that thanks to the generosity of my Patrons, we have achieved a new goal on Patreon: 100 bucks per month.
And as I promised back when I launched my Patreon page, reaching this target means I’ll write a 12.000 story on demand for my patrons, based on their choices and preferences. Continue reading
The Elizabeth Taylor Blogathon: The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
It’s the Elizabeth Taylor Blogathon and I am so terribly late.
Now I normally get late at the blogathon, because my mind is like an overcrowded attic and there’s too much stuff piled up in there. But the problem in this specific case is also, I fear, that I am not a fan of Elizabeth Taylor.
Beautiful woman? Of course.
Great actress? Undisputable.
An icon in so many different ways? You bet.
So, really, that’s me – not a fan.
So sue me.
But before you sue me, be sure to check out the blog In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood, that is hosting the vent and that will provide a huge selection of posts about movies featuring Elizabeth Taylor.
Once you’re done, and before you sue me, you might want to check out the rest of this post. Because we are about to talk of Bill Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, as directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1967, and featuring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as a bickering couple.
What a novel idea, uh? Continue reading
Amarna episode 2 on Amazon
Yes, Kindle users can now get their copy of the second episode on *AMARNA** directly to their device through this link.
First steps towards the AMARNA roleplaying game
I’m designing some material for the roleplaying game side of AMARNA and I thought I’ll start with a set of character sheets for the main characters.
Go for high-quality PDFs,to be distributed for free as a gadget.
I was highly impressed by the recently discovered Achtung!Cthulhu handbooks, in terms of overall quality and look, and I’d love to do something similar, creating a file folder or memorandum-style booklet for the good guys and one for the bad guys.
Or do a “fake documents” trying to copy the style of the French Call of Cthulhu handbook.
And I’ll also steal the idea of “statting” the characters for a variety of systems.
I’ll certainly go for Call of Cthulhu/Basic RolePlaying (with provisions made for Pulp Cthulhu), and for Savage Worlds, but I’d also try and add other systems – Ubiquity, for instance, to be used with Hollow Earth Expeditions, and maybe the old reliable D6 system. I’ll have to cram a lot of numbers and tables in those files.
Something for the weekend, but also an important first step in putting together the AMARNA campaign.
It will be fun.
And it will also be a good opportunity to revisit a few old systems, in view of my (slowly growing) catalog of pulp roleplaying games.
AMARNA, episode 2
The second episode of AMARNA, my new pulp adventure serial, is available on Gumroad as of now.
The zip file on sale on Gumroad includes the epub, mobi and PDF versions of the second episode of the story.
Looking for answers to the mystery of Amarna, Valerie Cazaret and her unlikely allies stumble on something far larger than they suspected, and as the Nazi Thule Society steps in, the supernatural suddenly rears its ugly head.
What next?
Right now my Patreon supporters in the Five Bucks Gang and the Ten Bucks Brigade have already received their copy or the discount token to save on the ebook.
And in a few days – hopefully – the second episode of AMARNA will also be available on Amazon1.
- but truth to be told I prefer Gumroad because it allows me to publish in a variety of formats, and pays higher royalties. ↩
Late supper with the Librarian
I spent last night watching the second of the three TV-movies in The Librarian franchise.
It’s like riding a seesaw – and if I actually enjoyed the first Librarian movie, the second was a terrible let down.
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines is an African adventure aimed at a younger audience that fails to capture the simple goofishness of the first movie. And yet, the cast is more or less the same, the plot is a simple piece of chewing-gum and everything should go for the best.
Only it does not.
A pity, really – but no matter how much I wanted to like it, I sank into a bottomless barrel of boredom. Continue reading
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