One might surmise that, when a book is published, it stays around more or less forever. This is only rarely true. In fact, the vast majority of my published work is out of print currently, and generally no longer available in any format. There are many reasons for this. In several instances in my work, […]
Read MoreI was first approached by friend and colleague Professor Christopher McGlothlin about contributing to a series of books discussing one of his favorite topics, sci-fi/horror films. This is a fellow who regularly is on the thank-you list of Kickstarter donors for RiffTrax, and frequently posts on social media about what films/TV series hold his attention […]
Read MoreHowdy! It’s been more than a year since my last blog post. I hope to get back to blogging on a more regular basis now – perhaps not quite weekly, but two to three times a month if all goes well. It would seem we have some catching up to do! Since last time, I’ve […]
Read MoreSince March of 2020, I’ve been working on an ebook. It’s a collection of 10 short stories that draw inspiration from the setting of White Wolf’s Werewolf: the Apocalypse tabletop role-playing game. More specifically, the stories are about the other were-creatures in the world: bats, bears, foxes, crows, spiders, and many more – the list […]
Read MoreMy writing career has been intertwined with games since day one. Games have been part of my life for years – even as a child, games were popular in my home. My parents regularly bought games for us kids for Christmas, and we sat around the kitchen table playing Chutes and Ladders and Hi-Ho Cherry-O […]
Read More(First Time in Decades, part Two) When I started out running a D&D-based game for friends a few months ago, I was thinking about converting the adventure into something I could publish. I talked about that game back in March, in this blog post: https://billbodden.com/2019/02/11/first-time-in-decades-part-one/ Since then, several things have transpired. First, the game came […]
Read MoreI attended my first StokerCon over the weekend. StokerCon is the annual convention sponsored by the Horror Writers Association, and this year it was held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Several fellow writers encouraged me to attend this year, so I decided to take the plunge. One thing that’s consistently made me crazy over these last […]
Read MoreI’ve worked at Pegasus Games for a really long time. So long, in fact, that years ago I was immortalized in the Dork Tower comic strip as Bill Blyden, Manager of Pegasaurus Games. But ‘time waits for no one’ as the saying goes, and as I grow older I find that I have less patience […]
Read MoreAs most of my readers know, I’m a freelance writer. Most of my work has been done in the tabletop gaming field, where I’ve written for companies from Games Workshop to Third Eye Games, and many in between. When writing for such a diverse selection of games, it’s important to be familiar with a lot […]
Read MoreYeesh; I went to add a new post today, and couldn’t log in. I called my hosting service, and they discovered activity that suggests a brute force attack was underway to try to take control of my website. The IT guy I spoke with suggested it was common practice to break in and use a […]
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