News: Shadowrun’s Corporate Guide (for which I wrote the Mitsuhama chapter) has a street date of July 21st, 2010. Whee! Real Life: It intrudes on everyone, writer or not. No...
In the days of the Roman Empire, you got free food if you just showed up for the circus. The divide between rich and poor was extreme. Rome had no...
It’s official! Catalyst Game Labs has released the Corporate Guide, a new sourcebook for the Shadowrun role-playing game. It’s an electronic .pdf for sale on Battleshop and DriveThruRPG.com. Pre-Orders for...
I’m not a big fan of journalists. Nothing against them personally, but so many of them seem determined to put political spins on things just to get ratings or to...
A friend commented on my previous entry about Life, Love, and Sex, telling me (in person) that Stargate Universe and Transhuman Fiction weren’t so much a fantasy about sex and...
If the early 21st century will be remembered for anything, it will be this: Moving past the conventional ideas of love and sex to explore new avenues of "interpersonal relationships"...
Well, I survived the Nebula weekend. Met lots of fun people. Laura Anne didn’t win her nebula, but Eugie did (good for her!). John Scalzi was nominated for at least...
Ah, yes. The 2010 Nebula Awards run by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Small conference, but lots of friendly people. I’ve already met a lot of...
Busy morning. Got up at 5:00 a.m. to help set up at UNF. Registration was a bear. I volunteered at the registration desk this morning and it was insanely busy....
The U.S. Government has launched a new website called MyMoney.gov. At first blush, it looks very interesting. It’s mainly tools and resources to help people budget for their current financial...
Brandie Tarvin is an author and tie-in writer and a copy editor. In addition to her original fiction, she has written SQL Server articles, Shadowrun: The Role Playing Game sourcebook material and fiction as well as a piece for Hasbro’s Transformers. She currently lives in Florida with her family and is owned by two cats.
