career | Geek Theory

Some career updates to keep everyone current with what’s going on for me:

First, I am pleased to announce that I am now represented by Eric Showers of Morhaim Literary. Not changing agencies which means this transition has been blissfully straightforward. While I am focusing a lot on game design right now, I still have fiction projects I want to make progress on and of course still have my existing books out there finding new readers. Eric and I gelled instantly and I’m excited to work with him in developing new fiction projects and continuing my multi-class Author/Designer career.

And if you haven’t been following my game design activities, I’d encourage you to take a look over on Patreon or check out my YouTube feed where I have a bunch of videos sharing my perspectives on and experience with Daggerheart, which has become one of the most buzzed-about ttrpgs of the year.

Born to the Blade S1 cover art - by Will Staehle

The flames of war burn bright, and options are growing thin.

The only way out for the Warders of the Circle is forward.

Today’s release “All the Nations of the Sky” by yours truly completes Born to the Blade season one!

I’ve learned SO MUCH about writing, storytelling, and business from this series, and am so grateful to my co-writers Cassandra Khaw, Malka Older, and Marie Brennan. They brought so much to the series and I have learned a lot about storytelling from each of them. I’m grateful to @serialboxpub for taking a chance on this series, for bringing the team on-board to help make new moves in storytelling, to meet readers where they are in their busy lives, commuting, sneaking in bits of reading time here and there, and so on.

I’m so honored that the series has connected with readers and that I’ve had the chance to push myself as a storyteller. Having reviewers covering the series week after week has been an utter delight.

In working on projects since BORN TO THE BLADE, I can already see the improvements to my craft – in characterization, worldbuilding, action scenes, and sentence-level craft. It’s been a lot of hard work and even more excitement, wonder, and joy.

So thank you to everyone who has been reading the series, to everyone that reviewed an episode or the season or talked about it with friends. The future of Born to the Blade now comes down to word of mouth and continuing to spread and earn new readers.

If you want to see what happens next for Kris, Michiko, Ojo, and everyone else, keep talking about the series with your friends!

BONUS: new readers can get the entire first season for just $1.99 at serialbox.com/redeem with the code SUMMER18