Someone contacted me recently with this question. He wanted to know how to get his novel turned into a video game.
Here’s my response:
I’m afraid I don’t have very good news for you. There are certain novels that are made into mainstream top-shelf games, but they’re typically big-name series. A grade-A game costs millions of dollars [...]

Genre: fantasy
Year written: 2009
Year first published: 2011
Art by: Steven Austin
Where You Can Find It

Guest Blogger: Morva Shepley
Here are a couple of tips I thought I’d pass along to fellow writers. They’re from no less a person than Jane Espenson, who has written for such TV shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, and the new version of Torchwood, Torchwood: The New World. She was in Australia [...]

Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Many games include races that are non-human, and these are the toughest to write for. It’s so easy to fall into the trap of thinking like a human writer, which you are, and writing dialogue that your fictional race would never say.
In order to write for any character, you have [...]

I specifically remember the moment I started reading “The Salt Line,” by Grant Stone. I was immediately transported to a strange landscape whose mood carried me through to the end. Everything about the story evokes a connection with ancient cultures and sources of power that go back even before humanity walked the earth. I found [...]

It’s not everyday you get the chance to give someone a goat!
For a woman in Afghanistan and other war-torn countries, a goat can provide a sustainable income that allows her to feed her family. For your loved one, you get the opportunity to give a unique and meaningful holiday gift.
And, if you go [...]

Guest blogger: Paris Crenshaw (Go back and read Lesson #4)
Lesson 5: You will never “find” time. You have to make time.
Okay, so now we’ve reached what is, for me, the greatest challenge to my writing: Time. I’ve already mentioned that all of those demands on my time will easily keep me from meeting a deadline [...]

Bruce Taylor, aka Mr. Magic Realism, is one of Seattle’s landmarks, always seen wherever writers are gathering, dressed in his white suit and top hat. He’s a ray of light in an otherwise very rainy and dark city, drawing writers and other creatives to him. If you ever get the opportunity to converse with him, [...]

There are many reasons you might want to turn your kids onto tabletop roleplaying games (like Dungeons and Dragons). Let me just list a few that come immediately to mind:

Encourage storytelling, imagination, and creativity.
Encourage social interaction with live people.
Give siblings a common interest.
Encourage reading.
Family time!
Keep them off the real streets and out of real dark [...]