Sid Meier’s Civilization: A New Dawn board game is one of our family favorites. It just needed a little … civilizing!
Category: Fun
Last week, I was in Portsmouth, England on business. Thanks to the kindness of a business associate, I was able to escape the meetings and fulfill a nearly life-long desire to visit one of the greatest and most legendary warships of all time: Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson’s HMS Victory. When I was a boy, making models […]
I was sworn to silence… but now the secret is out! When my son, Curtis, was a boy, he used to create theme parks for the rest of the family in his bedroom. Then in his teens he began performing magic professionally. As he grew to manhood he even began creating illusions for other magicians […]
OK, I’m not saying that Alan Tudyk and I are close … although he did let me have a booth next to his at Gencon Australia. And I’m not saying that Nathan Fillion and I are BFFs even though he did take a selfie with Laura and I some years ago which I show off […]
As long as I can remember,’what I want for Christmas’ has been the first and most paramount question of the holidays. It starts to rise up from the subconscious shortly before Thanksgiving and then blossoms full blown in my mind sometime after the turkey-fueled lethargy wears off and pumpkin pie is offered. It is an ageless […]
We recently ran a text-messaging contest for an autographed copy of our newly-released ‘Unwept’ novel, the first in our ‘Nightbirds’ trilogy. Today we selected our winner at it is… David Wade of Spencer, Indiana! As soon as our system selected the winner, I not only texted David that he had won but decided to pick […]
What a Convention season this is going to be for Laura and me! We have a full schedule and are so excited to see all of you all around the country! We have the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio next week, a book tour for our new Unwept novel, Dragon*Con and Comic Con Salt Lake and […]
As a Christian and devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), you would be right in assuming that Christmas is a special time of celebration for my family and me. My father being a scholar, over the years, has annually presented us with a ‘Christmas Test’ to help us keep […]
The Onion Reviews ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug’ I will be going to see the moving this week and have been looking forward to it for a very long time. I think Peter Jackson’s work is groundbreaking and (hopefully he is reading this) could be applied with great effect in other fantasy settings … […]