<i>RiverBank</i> and workshops
February 2025
Very exciting time for me! I am a bit slammed, so this one will be short.
Announcements have been coming out about my tabletop roleplaying game, RiverBank, for Kobold Press. Sign up for the newsletter, if you haven’t already! This will eventually include little videos (by me) about the game, which is going live as a Backerkit at the very end of March or beginning of April. I’ve been seeing art for it and working on the maps, and it is all delightful and absolutely beautiful.
Applications are currently open for this year’s Novel Architects intensive workshop. This is two intensive weeks of learning about novel structure and working out plot and structure for a book in its early stages. People who take it call it life changing, and a number of them have gone on to publish the books they developed at the workshop. Dates are 6/29–7/12, and information is here. (If you are interested in learning to write short SF/F, check out our sister workshop, Chris McKitterick’s Speculative Fiction Writing Workshop for Ad Astra, here.
It’s been a lot harder to get the news out this year, because FB and X have collapsed as reliable places to hear from people, and social media in general is fragmenting. And there aren’t really any places to advertise that reliably reach my target audience: people at all skill levels interested in developing a SF/F novel. Please, pass the news around to anyone you think might be interested: deadline for application has been extended into April.
I am teaching my final semester at KU, and it’s really been a great experience. I have always redesigned my writing classes each time, and this, my last, was no different. I think it may end up being my best undergraduate class ever, which is satisfying. (And, okay, maybe a little sad.)
Appearances
I just filled out programming requests for World Con this year, in Seattle 13–17 August, 2025. I’ll see some of you there, I hope?
Projects in progress
RiverBank TTRPG [designer and writer]: So much stuff! I finish the core text 2/17, and then there are all these additional bits of the project: downloadable PDFs, stretch goals, marketing vids. and so forth. As I said, the crowdfunding launch is 3/31. I hope we hit our stretch goals, as I really want to see some of those things come to fruition.
The American Tour [author] is still in limbo, but we mau be working toward the next step. I hope to have newsd for you next month.
Dreamland RPG [writer and editor] is still scheduled to launch on Kickstarter this spring I think; details as I get them. <https://www.dreamrpg.com/>
That’s all I have time for! Let no ill thing arise, dear ones—
Kij