Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1927. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. The biggest thing this story brings to the canon is one of the most evocative apocryphal case references: “Matilda Briggs was not the name of a young [...]
Back from Grand Masquerade. It was an amazing, wonderful, bizarre, exciting, and utterly exhausting time. As such, I’m pretty brain-dead today, but I wanted to at least let people know that the updated version of “Your Game Sucks” that I presented at Grand Masquerade this year is up on my Free Stuff page in PDF. If my recorder worked [...]
In my preparations for The Grand Masquerade, I didn’t get a chance to sit down and type up my notes for “The Sussex Vampire” for tomorrow (which is a shame, as it would have been appropriate to post while I was at a convention talking about vampires). The good news is that I have notes [...]
A quick note of a couple of things I’ve done recently as I prepare for The Grand Masquerade. Troll in the Corner recently posted an interview with me and Rich Thomas about White Wolf stuff. I even talk a bit about what games I currently play. I also recently wrote a review for Flames Rising [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1927. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. The best way to describe this story is to talk about a pastiche first. Bear with me for a bit. In Nicholas Meyer’s The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Watson [...]
(Thanks to Genevieve for suggesting this topic.) I have ranted about this topic before, but there’s a specific slice of it that I haven’t really talked about. It’s common writing wisdom that you should follow the publisher’s submission guidelines (and it’s usually the first thing I tell people when they ask me for one piece [...]