(Image from:  Where's the Drama? , by Billy Marshall Stoneking) For my "workshop finale" during this year's Summer ...

Sad day for us Star Trek fans.  (I've been one since junior high).  Leonard Nimoy, who's played Spock for a generation, bids farew...

A friend of mine posted this on line and I just had to swipe it.  I play wargames for enjoyment and the camaradarie of my fellow gaming bu...

A Touch of Evil (AToE) is an adventure boardgame, set in the late 18th Century.  Players are a band of heroes attempting to find the lair ...

(Image:  Steve Berry) PNWA  does an excellent job of cramming as much activities as possible into three-and-a-half days.  Mealtimes...

In the on-line survey I received from PNWA, I voted Jesse Joshua Watson  as the "Captain Jack Sparrow" of the conference.  Je...

As a blogger, I decided to attend the How To Set Up an Author Blog Tour workshop, for Saturday's second venue, hosted by Kathryn T...

Wait a minute.  Three narrative arcs in a story?  I only see one here (pictured above).  In the first Saturday workshop I attended,...

After a nine month hiatus, due to the popular fiction class I attended; along with my amicable divorce and subsequent move, I finally m...

Every time I describe wargaming to a non-gamer, they ask, "Oh, is it like Risk ?"  I tell them, yes, only more specific to parti...

After nearly a year in suspended animation, the "Grue Crew"  has returned to host their fourth podcast. In this episode, Rox of ...