News updates about appearances, projects and releases.
Laura and I will be appearing at the Salt Lake Comic Con FanXperience (FanX) next week from Thursday, April 17th through Saturday, April 12th. We’re excited for this year’s FanX as we have a lot of exciting things to share at the convention with our fans there, some of them never before seen in public. […]
One of the most enduring stories about the origins of the Dragonlance novels is that the books were written from the events taken directly from gaming sessions and our play. The truth is … a bit more complicated than that. Dragonlance was originally envisioned as a series of role-playing modules for the Advanced Dungeons & […]
How do you make life real in your fictional story? Sometimes that means setting your fiction in the real world. When I set out to write a dystopian novel about AIDS internment camps in the near future, I knew I needed to ground it in somewhere that was real for me. This week, that same […]
When Kevin Anderson called me and asked if I would like to be a part of this bundled collection of ebooks, how could I say no? The new “truly epic fantasy bundle” that debuts today from storybundle.com is a veritable Who’s Who of bestselling modern fantasy, featuring works by Neil Gaiman (an original American Gods […]
It is a truth in life that to make our dreams come true, we often have to conquer some pretty mundane territory. In 1983 the problem facing Harold Johnson and I was not how to create the extraordinary vision of Dragonlance … but how to get the company we worked for, TSR, Inc., to approve […]
I had not been working at TSR Inc. for very long before all of the designers and artists were called into a meeting in the old hotel. This was a very special gathering: a presentation of the results of a consulting firms perspective on our company. Outside perspective was considered helpful. This was the early […]
The first morning that I worked at TSR Inc. I arrived half hour before they unlock the doors. I was so excited and anxious to start work that I could hardly wait to begin. Laura and I had found a ‘modular home’ to rent in Elkhorn, a town about twenty minutes north of Lake Geneva. […]
It was early on March 15, a Monday, when Laura and I secured our then to children, Angel and Curtis, into their child seats in the back of our Volkswagen Rabbit and began our journey east toward a new job and a new life. We headed east from Orem Utah through Provo Canyon where […]
After being offered a job by TSR in February 1982, the most difficult part was saying yes. I had lived most of my life in Utah, had met my wife there, and our then two children had been born there. While it was true that as a missionary had traveled to the far side of […]