They even manage to come up with a running gag for Kira and Shaxs that works. Kira and Shaxs know each other from their days in the Bajoran Resistance, because of course they do, and the running gag is each of them insisting that they owe the other one for saving their life, with a constant stream of reminding each other of life-saving events while fighting the Cardassians. (“That one didn’t count, we were both locked up!”) It’s still true to both characters, without diminishing their lives as terrorists or what they were fighting for, and still funny as hell.
Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups, edited by Jonathan Maberry & Keith R.A. DeCandido, presented by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, is now funding on Kickstarter. The anthology features more than a dozen great tie-in writers teaming classic characters up.
We’ve already done several interviews
Rigel Ailur (teaming Annie Oakley with Marian of Sherwood)
Greg Cox (mashing up The Brain that Wouldn’t Die with Night of the Living Dead)
James Reasoner (pairing G-Man Dan Fowler with Stinger Seave)
Ben H. Rome (putting Bastet, Fenrir, and Quetzalcoatl together)
Dayton Ward (pairing Captain Battle with Blackout)
Here’s an interview with Diana Dru Botsford, who is putting three explorers together: the fictional Lemuel Gulliver and the historical figures Ernest Shackleton and Sacajawea.
Diana Dru Botsford‘s work includes the critically acclaimed Stargate SG-1 novels Four Dragons and The Drift and the Scribe-nominated short story “Perceptions.” She co-wrote the episode “Rascals” for Star Trek: TheNextGeneration, created, wrote, and produced the award-winning SF web series Epilogue, and worked on several cult-favorite animated series including Spiral Zone and Heathcliff.
What led you to choose the characters you’re using for your Double Trouble story?
Gulliver, Sacajawea, and Shackleton may have come from three entirely different backgrounds, but their devotion to the spirit of exploration unites them as characters. Shackleton said it best: “It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.”
Thanks to countless novels, comic books, and films, we’ve all become fond of heroes with capes. In the case of Sacajawea, Shackleton, and their fictional friend, Gulliver, heroism looks a little different, but it’s certainly got that same aspirational lift to it. All three of these characters embody that hunger to look beyond the next horizon. They stretched themselves, and in the case of Sacajawea and Shackleton, their discoveries and experiences contributed to today’s body of knowledge of how the world works and how humanity fits within that world.
Gulliver (through the pen of Jonathan Swift) also contributed heavily to where we are today. Swift’s stark, tongue-in-cheek language poked giant-sized holes in the African trade route, making Gulliver’s Travels one of the first anti-racist books published. Sacajawea certainly dealt with issues of prejudice as both a woman and a Native, and for all of Shackleton’s bravado and courage, he repeatedly dealt with anti-Irish bigotry.
In this story, the question becomes… “When you’ve explored all there is to explore, what’s next?”
What do you enjoy most about writing tie-in fiction?
All fiction begins with “What if?” The fun thing about writing in someone else’s sandbox (a.k.a., tie-in fiction) is that a sort of shorthand comes into play between the writer and the readers. If the writer can persuade the reader early on that they have a handle on the characters and world, they can explore nuances, threads, and even fill in the blanks (between episodes, films, story installments, etc.). Because of that shorthand, the writer can take readers much further into a world, a situation, a character’s turn. Mind you, none of that would be possible without the original creators of the characters (or, as in the case of my short story for this anthology, the actual historic figures the tale will be based upon).
What’s your favorite licensed universe that you’ve written in during your career as a tie-in writer?
As a tie-in writer, the spirit of exploration in Stargate SG-1 never gets old. The characters are each so distinct, their voices and action choices are such a wonderful blend of comedy, adventure, and drama. Plus, the “worlds” of the franchise can go on ad infinitum. While it’s not exactly tie-in (but it kinda is), writing the original draft for Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s “Rascals” with my dad was probably one of the most enjoyable experiences I ever had simply because the Trek franchise was a formidable part of my life since five years of age. The very first short story I ever wrote – at five years of age – was about Captain Kirk climbing up an impossibly tall castle’s sides to rescue Spock from an evil Gorn king (ha!).
What do you have that’s now out or coming out soon?
In the media tie-in realm, Stargate SG-1 fans might be interested in exploring why the Goa’uld Lord Yu wasn’t quite the bad guy. There’s my two-novel run of Four Dragons and The Drift. There’s also “Perceptions,” an SG-1 short story in the Far Horizons anthology that explores how the team deals with the death of their much-loved Dr. Janet Fraiser.
Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups, edited by Jonathan Maberry & Keith R.A. DeCandido, presented by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, is now funding on Kickstarter. The anthology features more than a dozen great tie-in writers teaming classic characters up.
We’ve already done several interviews
Rigel Ailur (teaming Annie Oakley with Marian of Sherwood)
Greg Cox (mashing up The Brain that Wouldn’t Die with Night of the Living Dead)
James Reasoner (pairing G-Man Dan Fowler with Stinger Seave)
Ben H. Rome (putting Bastet, Fenrir, and Quetzalcoatl together)
Here’s an interview with Dayton Ward, who is pairing two characters from 1940s comics: Captain Battle and Blackout.
DaytonWard is a New York Times best-selling author or co-author of more than forty novels and novellas, often working with his best friend, Kevin Dilmore. His short fiction has appeared in more than twenty anthologies, and he’s written for magazines such as NCO Journal, Kansas City Voices, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Star Trek, and Star Trek Communicator as well as the websites Tor.com, StarTrek.com, and Syfy.com.
What led you to choose the characters you’re using for your Double Trouble story?
When I started researching Public Domain characters so I could pitch to the anthology’s editors, I wanted to do something set during or shortly after World War I. I’d just gotten off a binge-watch of HBO’s Perry Mason reboot series and in that show Mason is a veteran of the Great War. I happened across Captain Battle during my research, who was described as such a veteran, wounded during that conflict and who later decides he’s going to do whatever he can to stop further wars. In the original comics in which he first appears—published before the attack on Pearl Harbor—he’s trying to avert another world war. The comics depict him fighting the Nazis, so I wondered what he might do once the war in Europe was over. Researching Captain Battle brought me to Blackout, a character who obtains superpowers after an accident. Despite appearing in two different issues of Captain Battle, Blackout and Battle never meet, so I figured now’s as good a time as any.
What do you enjoy most about writing tie-in fiction?
Most of the time, it’s like getting another chance to dig back into my childhood toybox. When I was a kid, I made up stories while pitting my various action figures against one another. I basically do the same thing now, only I use words instead of action figures to create my stories.
(Okay, I might still do the action figure thing every so often.)
Basically, writing a tie-in is an opportunity to run around on someone else’s playground, and if you’re lucky you get to stitch a new square into that property’s ever-expanding quilt of stories that fans love the same way they enjoy their favorite TV episodes or films.
What’s your favorite licensed universe that you’ve written in during your career as a tie-in writer?
I’ve been a Trekkie my entire life, and I’ve been very fortunate to write a good number of Star Trek stories, so it’s easily my favorite. That said, I was absolutely giddy when I got the chance to write story tying into Planet of the Apes. That’s another series of films and TV shows that contributed to my 1970s childhood jam, along with Space: 1999 and The Six Million Dollar Man, two other properties for which I’d love to write if opportunity ever presented itself.
What do you have that’s now out or coming out soon?
My most recent publication is Jurassic World: The Official Cookbook from Insight Editions. It’s a collaboration with food stylist Elena P. Craig. She wrote all the recipes while I wrote all the background and “flavor text” about the Jurassic World resort and dinosaurs from an in-world perspective. It was a change of pace for me, but a great deal of fun.
Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups, edited by Jonathan Maberry & Keith R.A. DeCandido, presented by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, is now funding on Kickstarter. The anthology features more than a dozen great tie-in writers teaming classic characters up.
We’ve already done several interviews
Rigel Ailur (teaming Annie Oakley with Marian of Sherwood)
Greg Cox (mashing up The Brain that Wouldn’t Die with Night of the Living Dead)
James Reasoner (pairing G-Man Dan Fowler with Stinger Seave)
Ben H. Rome (putting Bastet, Fenrir, and Quetzalcoatl together)
Keith R.A. DeCandido (teaming Ayesha, a.k.a. She Who Must Be Obeyed, with Egungun-oya)
David Mack (teaming Prospero the Magician with Don Quixote de la Mancha)
Here’s an interview with Maurice Broaddus, who is bringing together two Black pulp characters, Ace Harlem, created by John Terrell in 1947’s All-Negro Comics, and the Conjure-Man, created by Rudolph Fisher for his 1932 novel The Conjure-Man Dies.
A community organizer, teacher, and Afrofuturist, MauriceBroaddus‘s short stories have appeared in such places as Lightspeed Magazine, Black Panther: Tales from Wakanda, Weird Tales, The Magazine of Fantasy&ScienceFiction, and Uncanny Magazine. His novels include Sweep of Stars, Unfadeable, Pimp My Airship, and The Usual Suspects.
What led you to choose the characters you’re using for your Double Trouble story?
I’ve been reading a book called Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow by Brooks E. Hefner. In it, Hefner uncovers a trove of African-American genre fiction from the 1920s through the 1950s. Romance, adventure, Westerns, crime stories in an era that hasn’t been documented well in terms of what we read and what we wrote. It stirred my curiosity, which led me to All-Negro Comics #1 (Ace Harlem) and The Conjure Man Dies (the Conjure Man). Hopefully, I’ll help shed light on these two properties, drawing modern attention to them.
What do you enjoy most about writing tie-in fiction?
It’s another way for me to tell my stories, except by playing in someone else’s sandbox. Look, I’m living my teenage geek best life right now being able to write some of the properties that I either grew up watching or being influenced by.
What’s your favorite licensed universe that you’ve written in during your career as a tie-in writer?
Marvel. Especially Black Panther.
What do you have that’s now out or coming out soon?
My space opera, Sweep of Stars, just came out this past spring, quickly followed by my middle-grade detective novel, Unfadeable. Speaking of tie-in writing, I have a story in AvP: Ultimate Prey (“Night Doctors”), an essay in Dreams of Wakanda (“Daring to Dream of a Black Utopia”), and a re-imagining of a Hollywood staple in Classic Monsters Unleashed (“The Invisible Man: The Fire This Time”).
Most of the authors are now offering readings of their stories! Each of the available audios can be added to your pledge as a $10 add-on, or you can get all the audio readings (plus an acknowledgment, and the eBook and trade paperback of the anthology) for $125.
MABERRYTUCKERIZATIONS!
Co-editor Jonathan Maberry is offering some more Tuckerizations, including two more in his next “Joe Ledger” book and two more in one of his upcoming short stories. These are available as $175 rewards (which also include an acknowledgment, and copies of the anthology in eBook and trade paperback).
MABERRYAUTOGRAPHEDARCs!
In addition, Jonathan is also offering as add-ons autographed ARCs of the first two books in his new epic fantasy series: KagentheDamned and SonofthePoisonRose. You can get one of the ARCs for $100, or both for $175.
If you’ve already pledged, you can easily alter your pledge to get one or more of these rewards, and if you haven’t yet, now’s your chance!
Both [Gary] Graham and [Jolene] Blalock play their one scene alone together very nicely, also, with Soval prodding her and T’Pol giving near-constant pushback on Soval’s attempts to get her to stop fooling around with the humans and come back to work for him like a sensible Vulcan. Chris Black’s script is particularly strong here, with Soval using lots of clever rhetorical tricks to try to manipulate T’Pol, and T’Pol magnificently deflecting all of it. Credit also to Black for having both Soval and Tarah use the same reductive propaganda about each others’ side. (Vulcans always lie and can’t be trusted! Andorians are always violent and can’t be trusted!)
Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups, edited by Jonathan Maberry & Keith R.A. DeCandido, presented by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, is now funding on Kickstarter. The anthology features more than a dozen great tie-in writers teaming classic characters up.
We’ve already done several interviews
Rigel Ailur (teaming Annie Oakley with Marian of Sherwood)
Greg Cox (mashing up The Brain that Wouldn’t Die with Night of the Living Dead)
James Reasoner (pairing G-Man Dan Fowler with Stinger Seave)
Ben H. Rome (putting Bastet, Fenrir, and Quetzalcoatl together)
Keith R.A. DeCandido (teaming Ayesha, a.k.a. She Who Must Be Obeyed, with Egungun-oya)
Here’s an interview with David Mack, who has paired two characters from classic literature: Prospero, the magician from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Don Quixote de la Mancha, the mad adventurer from the eponymous novel by Miguel Cervantes.
David Mack is the New York Times best-selling author of more than thirty-six novels of science fiction, fantasy, and adventure. His writing credits span several media, including television, games, and comic books. In June of 2022 the IAMTW honored him as a Grandmaster with its Faust Award.
What led you to choose the characters you’re using for your Double Trouble story?
My editors stressed the importance of being absolutely certain that the characters we chose for our stories were firmly in the public domain, not just in the United States but worldwide. I reasoned that characters from the early 17th century were probably safe to use everywhere.
As for why I chose these characters specifically? I’ve long been a fan of Miguel de Cervantes’s novel and character Don Quixote de la Mancha. As an example, in the Star Trek: Vanguard literary series I co-created, I named my down-on-his-luck, quixotic adventurer Cervantes Quinn, and I described his little smuggling vessel as a “Mancharan Starhopper.”
When I wondered who would be an interesting character for the bumbling knight Don Quixote to meet, I thought, “A classic fantasy pairs a knight and a wizard.” Then I remembered that Cervantes and Shakespeare were contemporaries, both writing in the first two decades of the 17th century. I’ve also long been a fan of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, so I quickly settled upon the notion of the magician Prospero, in need of aid, summoning help — and receiving Don Quixote as the hero he both needs and deserves.
What do you enjoy most about writing tie-in fiction?
The unfettered, raw power, and the breathless respect it engenders in every mortal soul.
I hope it was obvious that the preceding sentence was an utter lie.
One aspect of writing officially licensed media tie-ins that I find gratifying is being able to weave new stories for characters whose previous tales have entertained and/or inspired me. After vicariously sharing in their creators’ adventures, I get to take those fun imaginary friends on a journey of my own devising.
Best of all, sometimes these new odysseys help me learn something new about the characters by requiring me to spend more time imagining their respective points of view. When that happens, I find myself feeling closer to and more invested in the characters after I finish writing a story than I did before I began.
What’s your favorite licensed universe that you’ve written in during your career as a tie-in writer?
I’ve enjoyed all of the various properties for which I’ve been lucky enough to work during the past twenty-two years, including Wolverine, The 4400, Farscape, and especially 24.
That said, I’ve never made any secret of the fact that my first love in media has always been Star Trek — as one might surmise based on the fact that December 2022 will see the publication of my 30th full-length Star Trek novel.
While I aspire to write novels for a number of other well-known media properties — including Star Wars, Indiana Jones, 007 James Bond, and Mission: Impossible — I hope to remain involved with writing Star Trek novels for the duration of my career.
What do you have that’s now out or coming out soon?
Next up for me is another original Star Trek adventure, an Original Series/Vanguard crossover titled Harm’s Way. It will be released on December 13, 2022.
Harm’s Way is set in July 2266, which fits into the Original Series’s continuity about a month after the events of “Amok Time,” between the season-two episodes “The Doomsday Machine” and “Wolf in the Fold.” In relation to the Star Trek: Vanguard literary saga, it falls roughly in the middle of book five, Precipice.
Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups, edited by Jonathan Maberry & Keith R.A. DeCandido, presented by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, is now funding on Kickstarter. The anthology features more than a dozen great tie-in writers teaming classic characters up.
We’ve already done several interviews
Rigel Ailur (teaming Annie Oakley with Marian of Sherwood)
Greg Cox (mashing up The Brain that Wouldn’t Die with Night of the Living Dead)
James Reasoner (pairing G-Man Dan Fowler with Stinger Seave)
Ben H. Rome (putting Bastet, Fenrir, and Quetzalcoatl together)
Here’s an interview with me! Yes, I’ve interviewed myself! That’s not weird at all! Anyhow, my story in the anthology will put together two African immortals, Ayesha, a.k.a. She Who Must Be Obeyed, the title character from H. Rider Haggard’s She, and the Yoruba goddess Egungun-oya.
Keith R.A. DeCandido is an award-winning best-selling author of sixty novels, 100 short stories, and a ton of comic books and nonfiction, including work in more than thirty licensed universes from Alien to Zorro. He has edited a score of anthologies (both publicly and behind the scenes), including ones in the universes of StarTrek, Doctor Who, Marvel Comics, and more. The IAMTW favored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.
What led you to choose the characters you’re using for your Double Trouble story?
I’ve actually written both characters before. My story for the IAMTW’s previous anthology, 2021’s Turning the Tied, featured Ayesha, and Egungun-oya is a supporting character in my urban fantasy series The Bram Gold Adventures, having played a critical role in the first book in that series, 2019’s A Furnace Sealed, and she will also play a big role in the as-yet-untitled third book in the series.
What do you enjoy most about writing tie-in fiction?
I grew up reading tie-ins and always wanted to be one of the people who got to write them. Being able to write for characters I’ve loved, particularly ones like the Star Trek and Marvel characters that I grew up with, has been an absolute joy. Plus, I’ve gotten to work with some amazing people, actually write the official continuation of one of my favorite TV shows (Farscape, for which I co-wrote a post-series comic book with show creator Rockne O’Bannon from 2008-2011), and tons more besides.
What’s your favorite licensed universe that you’ve written in during your career as a tie-in writer?
Although I’ve loved writing Farscape (see previous answer) and Marvel and Alien and Supernatural and all the others — I’ve written in more than 30 universes at this stage — I have to say Star Trek, simply because it’s been one of my favorite things since I was a little kid watching reruns of the original series. Star Trek is such a wonderful setting, and such a magnificently hopeful future with some truly excellent characters, and to have been able to play in that sandbox has been one of the joys of my life.
What do you have that’s now out or coming out soon?
In the tie-in realm, I’ve written a Resident Evil comic book that serves as a prequel to the Netflix animated series Infinite Darkness, entitled The Beginning, the first issue of which will be out soon from TokyoPop. I’ve also written a Star Trek Adventures module called Incident at Kraav III with Fred Love, a Klingon adventure that was lots of fun to do. And I wrote a short story for the recently released Zorro’s Exploits called “A Lovely View.”
As for stuff I keep the copyright on, Phoenix Precinct, the sixth novel in my fantasy/police procedural series, will be out by the end of the year (and is currently crowdfunding also), and I’ve got two urban fantasy books on the docket, probably for early 2023: Ragnarok and a Hard Place: More Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet (taking place in Key West) and Feat of Clay (taking place in the Bronx, the sequel to the aforementioned A Furnace Sealed). I’ve also got stories out or coming out in Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2022, Phenomenons: Season of Darkness, The Eye of Argon: The Further Adventures of Grignr, Three Time Travelers Walk Into…, Tales of Capes and Cowls, The Fans are Buried Tales, and The Four ???? of the Apocalypse (which I also co-edited).
Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups, edited by Jonathan Maberry & Keith R.A. DeCandido, presented by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, is now funding on Kickstarter. The anthology features more than a dozen great tie-in writers teaming classic characters up.
We’ve already done several interviews
Rigel Ailur (teaming Annie Oakley with Marian of Sherwood)
Greg Cox (mashing up The Brain that Wouldn’t Die with Night of the Living Dead)
James Reasoner (pairing G-Man Dan Fowler with Stinger Seave)
Ben H. Rome (putting Bastet, Fenrir, and Quetzalcoatl together)
Here’s an interview with Nancy Holder & Alan Philipson, who are pairing the first-ever occult detective, created by Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard for Pearson’s Magazine in the 1880s with Philipson’s creation, Mezzanotte, who debuted in the story “War Against the Mafia” in Dracula Unfanged.
Nancy Holder is a New York Times best-selling author. She received the Faust Grand Master Lifetime Achievement Award from the IAMTW in 2020. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association in 2022. Alan Philipson has written 135 novels under his and house names. He has been a professional editor for over thirty years. They are currently writing noir graphic novels and fiction for Moonstone Books and IFWG/IPI Comics as a team.
What led you to choose the characters you’re using for your Double Trouble story?
We had planned to use a different character, Dr. Hesselius, who was a creation of the wonderful Irish ghost story writer, Sheridan Le Fanu, who was touted as “the first occult detective in fiction.” But we realized that he wasn’t, really. Flaxman Low is the real deal, and we had a blast with him.
We picked Alan’s creation Mezzanotte because we thought pairing the two together would give us a lot of opportunities for “a real creeper.” Mezzanotte is an ambiguous monster, not-quite a vampire but not-quite-not. He’s not like Blade or anyone else we’ve read. So it was a chance to stretch our fangs….
What do you enjoy most about writing tie-in fiction?
In the case of Flaxman Low, we wanted to bring a great character back to the reading public. The stories about him are really fun and spooky. We think he should have another chance at life as a literary character.
What’s your favorite licensed universe that you’ve written in during your career as a tie-in writer?
For Nancy, it’s gotta be Buffy the Vampire Slayer. For Alan, it’s Deathlands.
What do you have that’s now out or coming out soon?
We’re in the Kolchak 50th Anniversary project coming from Moonstone books. We’re totally jazzed about it!
Follow Nancy online (and Alan will see anything posted there):
Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups, edited by Jonathan Maberry & Keith R.A. DeCandido, presented by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, is now funding on Kickstarter. The anthology features more than a dozen great tie-in writers teaming classic characters up. We’ve already done interviews with Rigel Ailur (teaming Annie Oakley with Marian of Sherwood), Greg Cox (mashing up The Brain that Wouldn’t Die with Night of the Living Dead), and James Reasoner (pairing G-Man Dan Fowler with Stinger Seave).
Here’s an interview with Ben H. Rome, who is putting three figures from mythology together: the Egyptian cat god Bastet, the Norse wolf Fenrir, and the Central American god Quetzalcoatl.
BenH. Rome is an award-winning writer, game designer, and communications expert who spent fifteen years editing, writing, and producing BattleTech game products. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area and is currently the Content Director and editor for the new Renegade Legion Universe.
What led you to choose the characters you’re using for your Double Trouble story?
Mythology and pantheons have always been a treasure trove of supernatural stories, so I tend to gravitate to these literary gold mines for ideas and entertainment. When I got wind of the pitch call, I immediately thought the best, most opportunistic pairing for some tension and comedy would be a cat and a dog. What gods would work well within that pairing? Bastet, one of the more familiar “cat gods” thanks to Black Panther, and Fenrir — while technically a wolf and not a dog — a popular foil in Norse mythology. Then the question became, what kind of foe is common to both cat and dog and would be the mastermind behind an apocalyptic event? I had to go with the feathered snake god Quetzalcoatl because the disparity between pantheons, the unlikely feline-wolf pairing, and traipsing them across three mythologies seemed like a fun challenge. I thought I was a bit crazy, but the pitch got accepted…
What do you enjoy most about writing tie-in fiction?
I love how I can impact a setting with a new story, twist, character, or idea that helps flesh out an established world. Taking something known and turning in just such a way to create a new dynamic is pretty cool and challenges my creative process.
What’s your favorite licensed universe that you’ve written in during your career as a tie-in writer?
I’ve written for several years in the BattleTech space, helping spin out an entire era’s worth of setting, characters, plots, mysteries, and more. It’s been the only IP playground I’ve been involved with — nearly twenty years! — and I’m ready to do more elsewhere. Currently, I’m having a lot of fun helping reimagine the Renegade Legion universe, and being involved from the ground up is a really great experience.
But I won’t lie: my ultimate goal is to see something of my creation published in the Star Wars universe. I’ve been obsessed with it since 1977, which would definitely be a defining moment for my creative career.
What do you have that’s now out or coming out soon?
I have an original short story, “To Raise a Nation, Giants Must Fall,” published in Great Wars by Lost Boys Press, which released on September 22. It’s a “what if” story where I twist the David and Goliath tale into something unexpected. I also have a short story coming in late October/early November entitled “Fractured State,” which will be part of the Voices of Varuna Volume 2 anthology. (We released Volume 1 last summer, which I edited and have a story in as well.) And next year, we’re launching the Xenovita RPG, which I’m currently working on with Derek Tyler Attico and Kelli Fitzpatrick.
Plus, I’ve got more in the pipeline for 2023 and beyond.
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