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.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Cover art

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It looks like there is now a cover for The Battle for Turtle Island , and it is AWESOME !  Hopefully you'll all get to see it some time ...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

The rough draft is done

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I just completed the writing of the rough draft of the new game, which will be titled The Battle for Turtle Island: Buffalo Wars .  The firs...
Monday, June 18, 2012

I love three day weekends

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For each of the last two weekends, I've had Monday off as well as Saturday and Sunday.  Last week it was because of Rebecca's birthd...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

Some people really suck

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We've been trying to track down our tax refund for a while now, and we just got word yesterday that someone had cashed our refund check....
Friday, June 15, 2012

It's a secret

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When I got home from work today, I found an invitation in my e-mail to write a story for what sounds like a really cool anthology.  But, it...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

A June update on the game

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The game is coming along quite nicely now.  I'm just a few hundred words short of 30,000 now.  I'm expecting the initial draft to be...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

Book signing

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It was a pretty successful book signing. Although I'm absolutely sure that the majority of the people were there to see Warren Hammond,...
Saturday, June 09, 2012

Charlie Chases Crows

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My publisher recently sent me a new review of Red Moon Rising (I'll post a link when I have it.) In the review, the reader really like...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012

We've lost another one

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I went to lunch today at the dreaded "real" job, and was quite surprised to read the news that Ray Bradbury had passed away. Just...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012

An important message for writers

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When you're submitting your precious manuscript to an editor, be sure to read the guidelines first. If you've written a horror stor...
Sunday, June 03, 2012

To politic, or not to politic...

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...that is the question. Years ago, I used to talk about politics a lot on this blog, and I've noticed that at that time, I got a lot m...
Saturday, June 02, 2012

The Martian Wave Vol. 3

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The 2012 issue of The Martian Wave is now available for purchase. It will probably ship in about two weeks. This is the third print edi...
Friday, June 01, 2012

May recap

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A better month of blogging. Hope to be doing more and more in the months to come. Surprise, surprise May madness The Martian Wave has ...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

If you're coming to my book signing...

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...and you'd like to pick up a copy of A Problem in Translation before the signing, here are a few places you can get it... The Sam...
Monday, May 28, 2012

The second chapter

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For a very brief period of time, you can read the second chapter of my new novel A Problem in Translation on my website at http://www.jalan...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

May madness has almost come to an end

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What has been a crazy busy month is almost over, and I will be happy about that! The older two are now out of school, which makes some thin...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Translation has been Nooked

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I'm not sure why it's taken so long, but A Problem in Translation is now available for the Nook. You can find it at http://www.bar...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

A May update on the game

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Progress has slowed quite a bit on the new game in the last few weeks. Mostly for two reasons, one: I'm to a point now where I'm ha...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The Martian Wave has been delayed

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The 2012 issue of The Martian Wave was supposed to be released on May 1st, but with the changes at Sam's Dot and the push to get things...
Saturday, May 05, 2012

May Madness

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What a crazy month this has been, and will continue to be. The two oldest kids get out of school on the 23rd, so we have all of the end of ...
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