Archive | 06. Mar, 2007

Visting Decipher

In the tail end of September, 2000, Decipher Inc, the makers of the Star Wars™ collectible card game flew Timothy Zahn and me out to Norfolk, VA for a photoshoot connected with their upcoming Reflections II card set. Previously that month they’d shot pictures of a model portraying Mirax Terrik, Corran’s wife, and at the […]

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Last Call II

Why Prince of Havoc was my last BattleTech® novel. For years there have been people who had circulated the rumor that whichever BattleTech® novel had come out most recently from me would be my last. These rumors have not been true in the past, but now, like a broken clock which is right twice a […]

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Last Call

Why I’m not doing any more Star Wars novels: Dark Tide: Ruin is going to be my last Star Wars book for a while. There are several reasons for this, and I wanted to share them with you so rumors could be put straight, anger and hostility could be defused, and no one would end […]

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The Return II

As expected, my first essay and story about the future of BattleTech has created a lot of excitement. (Okay, excitement is a euphasism here for some of the more volatile responses.) I could head out to the net and read a lot of traffic that suggests I’ve completely lost my mind, or so I am […]

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The Return

We all know how this works, right? At Gencon Jordan Weisman, Randall Bills, Janna Silverstein and I held a seminar on the future of BattleTech. Someone who was there didn’t like something he heard, and told someone else about it, putting his own spin on it, forgetting some aspects, focusing on the things that angered […]

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