J Alan Erwine's Blog

J Alan Erwine is a prize winning SF writer. He is also an SF editor, and the co-designer of the Ephemeris Role Playing Game. He is also the creator of the Rocks on the Other Side RPG, as well as the Battle for Turtle Island RPG.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Why, yes, it is snowing

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I'm sitting here playing catch up (mostly Sam's Dot stuff), and watching the snow outside my window. It started snowing last night,...
Monday, October 26, 2009

MileHiCon day 3

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The last day started out as quickly as the previous. At 11 in the morning I ran a game of Ephemeris. It looked like we wouldn't get en...

MileHiCon day 2

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Hit the ground running for day 2. My panel was at 10 am, and this one was GM 101: A Thief, a Mage, and a Paladin Walk into the Tavern. It ...

MileHiCon day 1

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I had planned on blogging over the weekend, but we got home late every night, and I was exhausted. Overall, the con was good, although it s...
Friday, October 23, 2009

Getting set for MileHiCon

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The Con starts in just a few hours, and we're getting all of our final preparations done. My first panel will be at 4. If you're g...
Friday, October 16, 2009

Species Sourcebooks

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I've now finished all six of the species sourcebooks for the Ephemeris RPG. This has been a pretty big undertaking, and I'm now gla...
Saturday, October 10, 2009

Circus

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Last night we took the girls to the circus. I have some very mixed feelings about the circus. I remember having a great time going as a ki...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

My MileHiCon schedule

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No word yet on whether or not I'll be hosting a game of Ephemeris, but here's the schedule as I have it now... Fri. 4pm 100 years si...
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An Ephemeris Update for early October

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Yesterday, the Melanathee Sourcebook for the Ephemeris RPG was released. This is the fifth of the species sourcebooks I've written for ...
Sunday, October 04, 2009

H1N1 and other news

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This last week has been a long and tiring one. Our oldest started running a fever and generally felt like crap. We finally got her into th...
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Friday, September 25, 2009

A condolence card

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Yesterday we received a condolences card from the vet who has helped us with all of our sick dogs. Everyone from the office signed it. Thi...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Thunder and Coco

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I've been wanting to post about the dogs that we've lost in the last few weeks. For those of you new to my blog, our dog Spike cont...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

We lost another dog

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On Thursday, we had to put our oldest's 17 year old Cocker Spaniel, Coco, down. He'd been in their family for four years, and he wa...
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Saturday, September 12, 2009

I really have to wonder about people

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I wonder whatever happened to common courtesy in this country. Because Rebecca's dad needed her van to go to Texas, we've been usin...
Monday, September 07, 2009

Ephemeris Update

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We've been hard at work on Ephemeris materials. A couple of weeks ago we released Critters & Pests by Ian Brazee-Cannon. This is a...
Friday, September 04, 2009

Puppy update

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It looks like Spike has made a full recovery. He's back to his usual puppy self, jumping on everyone and trying to love on everyone as ...
Friday, August 28, 2009

A crappy day

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When we went to get our daughters back from Texas this summer we brought back a puppy for them. His name is Spike. He's a lab mix who...
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Crazy busy

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It's been a while since I've posted because I've been crazy busy. The e-book versions of the Ephemeris RPG have really started ...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Got Game?

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The Ephemeris RPG is now out and should be available wherever you buy books or games. If your local book, game, or comic store is not carry...
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Weekend Update

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Friday was the big Twitter release party for the Ephemeris RPG...12 hours of tweeting is enough to drive just about anyone batty...myself in...
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