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The Neverwinter Campaign Setting was published by Wizards of the Coast for Dungeons & Dragons 4E.

Credits: A few of the character themes, a few of the factions in the "Factions and Foes" section, and the bulk of the gazetteer write-ups for the Neverwinter Woods, Gauntlgrym, Evernight, and Thay.

Notes: Actually my first Forgotten Realms gig. I really had a blast working on this one.

…to receive author’s copies. 😀

In this case, author’s copies of Human Tales, an anthology that includes "Tithe," my first professional short fiction sale that wasn’t a tie-in.

Yes, that means I published non-tie-in novels before I was ever able to publish a non-tie-in short story.

Laurence Fishburne has been cast as Perry White in the new Superman movie. Over in the Ultimates line of Marvel Comics, the new Spider-Man is a young bi-racial teen named Miles Morales.

If you dislike Fishburne as an actor, or if you’re upset that they killed Peter Parker (even in a reality separate from mainstream Marvel Comics), fine. No problem. But if your objection to either or both is that the actor/character isn’t white?

Shut the hell up and keep it to yourself. You’re making the rest of us geeks–and the rest of us human beings, for that matter–look bad.

(And I wish to hell this was just me being preemptive, but I’ve already seen lots of racist commentary on both issues, and it turns my stomach.)

What say you: Is the original Jaws properly classified as a horror movie, or is it not?

Justify/explain your answer.

I don’t know if I’m prepared to call this the best Marvel movie to date. Need to see it, and some of the others, a few more times.

But I am prepared to say that, in terms of mood/tone/feel/aesthetics, it got absolutely everything right. Seriously. It’s brilliant in that regard alone. My biggest complaint is that it wasn’t about eight hours longer, so we could see a lot more of Cap’s missions during WWII.

Between this and X-Men: First Class, I kind of want at least half of all comic book movies to be period pieces from here on out.

A period of time during which non-traveling writers and freelancers can expect to receive absolutely no answers to any of their questions. 😛

(Have fun, guys. I hate you.)