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DISTANT SHORES: XDM — Xtreme Dungeon Mastery Available
Our Xtreme Dungeon Mastery book is now available. You can purchase the book here online. You can learn more about the book at xtremedungeonmastery.com. Be sure to visit schlockmercenary.com to learn about our illustrator Howard Tayler and his web comic series.
Episode 44 / July 6th, 2009
DISTANT SHORES: T.V. … or not T.V. …
I contemplate the death of my widescreen, HD plasma television … and how it portends the downfall of western civilization.
CREATIVE ENGINE: Perfect Pitch
Crafting the perfect pitch of your book is a lot more complicated than it looks … even for an old pro.
UNCHARTED TERRITORIES: Acting as if…
My wearying a lifeguard shirt at a water park leads to an incident with a lost little girl … and a contemplation regarding whether people are more ready to believe fantasy than the truth.
STATUS REPORT
CAPTAINS CABIN: XDM — Xtreme Dungeon Mastery
Wherein we talk about how XDM came to be. You can find out more about this project at xtremedungeonmastery.com. Be sure to visit schlockmercenary.com to learn about our illustrator Howard Tayler and his web comic series.
Episode 43 / May 21st, 2009
PORT OF CALL: Old South Church
Margaret Weis and I walk the “Freedom Trail” in Boston, Massachusetts and discover the roots of rebellion alive and well in the Out South Church.
NEWS AND MAIL
DISTANT SHORES No fan of Twilight …
Tracy explains the origins of the modern literary Vampire … and why he believes that Stephanie Meyer’s ‘Twilight’ series does a disservice to women.
UNCHARTED TERRITORIES Changing my name to Fannie Mae …
Here are the words to Tom Paxton’s ode to the current ‘bail out’:
Everybody and his uncle is in debt,
And the bankers and the brokers are upset.
Goldman Sachs’s, Merrill Lynch’s
Saw themselves as lead-pipe cinches,
Now they’ve landed in the biggest screw-up yet.
Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns and all their kind
Have turned out to be the blind leading the blind.
They are clearly the nit-wittest
In survival of the fittest––
Let me modestly say what I have in mind
Chorus:
I am changing my name to Fannie Mae;
I am changing it to AIG.
On this bail-out I am betting;
Just a piece of what they’re getting,
Would be perfectly acceptable to me.
I am changing my name to Freddie Mac;
I am leaving for that great receiving line.
I’ll be waiting when they hand out
Seven hundred million grand out––
That’s when I’ll get mine.
Since the first amphibian crawled out of the slime,
We’ve been struggling in an unrelenting climb.
We were hardly up and walking
Before money started talking
And it said that failure was the only crime.
If you really screwed things up, then you were through;
Now––surprise!––there is a different point of view.
All that crazy rooty-tootin’
And that golden parachutin’
Means that someone’s making millions––just not you!
(to chorus)
CREATIVE ENGINE: Heraclitus and Schrödinger’s cat
An essay on how Quantum Theory explains the relationship between the writer and the reader.
STATUS REPORT
CAPTAINS CABIN: How Beautiful Upon the Mountains
Wherein we council how to publish peace.
Episode 42 / March 27th, 2009
SPECIAL EDITION: Dragonships Video Interview
Last December, Margaret and I did an interview for Expanded Books on our upcoming Dragonships novel release. The first book, ‘Bones of the Dragon’ is available now. Here is some insight into this first novel.
Episode 41 / January 16th, 2009
CAPTAIN’S CABIN: My Brother, Gerry Hickman
On December 20th, 2008, my beloved and only brother, Gerald Todd Hickman, passed away suddenly as a result of a bicycling accident.
Episode 40 / January 13th, 2009
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