Howard Tayler's blog
Star Pirates & Anthology Builder
Submitted by Howard Tayler on July 8, 2009 - 12:09
The folks at Star Pirates have been itching to get me to design ads for them for over a year now. Unfortunately for them I’ve been too busy to pay much attention to advertising — which is kind of strange, because you’d expect a good mercenary like me to be taking to that particular revenue stream like a fish takes to water, but I digress — so they had to go stand in line for slots via Project Wonderful.
Guest Comic and other Monday Things
Submitted by Howard Tayler on July 6, 2009 - 11:58
David Reddick, one of the hardest-working men in the comics business, asked me to do a guest comic for him over at The Legend of Bill. He provided a script (which I tweaked to my liking) and I provided the art. I’m happy with the way it turned out. Bill is fun to draw.
Go look!
Hey, Writing Excuses fans! Ummm… sorry! We’ll get Episode 3.6 posted real soon now.
XDM Page Spread Leaked to The Internet
Submitted by Howard Tayler on July 2, 2009 - 21:00
I’m checking out the new website over at xtremedungeonmastery.com (your official source for all things XDM) and what do I see? A page spread, right there where anybody can read it without buying it.
It looked almost exactly like this.
XDM Pre-orders Are Now Open!
Submitted by Howard Tayler on July 1, 2009 - 10:08
You may now pre-order your autograph edition of XDM: X-Treme Dungeon Mastery, by Tracy and Curtis Hickman, illustrated by Howard Tayler. Tracy Hickman is the co-creator of Castle Ravenloft and the popular Dragonlance series. His son Curtis is a practicing magician. And me? Me you probably already know.
Busy Weekend “Campingâ€
Submitted by Howard Tayler on June 29, 2009 - 11:22
The family went camping this weekend. I went driving up and down the canyon.
XDM Pre-orders Will Open July 1st
Submitted by Howard Tayler on June 25, 2009 - 13:59
On Wednesday, July 1st at 8:00am Mountain Time we will open pre-orders for XDM: X-Treme Dungeon Mastery by Tracy and Curtis Hickman. Howard illustrated this must-have reference for RPG referees, dungeon masters, and serious role-players, and has been showing off his advance copy for a couple of weeks now. The book is hard-bound, 160 pages long, black-and-white, and costs $29.95.
Transformers: ROTFL (Rolls On The Floor, Laughing)
Submitted by Howard Tayler on June 25, 2009 - 13:57
I saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen yesterday, and it was not my favoritest thing ever. Here are the rankings as they now stand:
1. Star Trek
2. Up
3. Terminator: Salvation
4. Angels & Demons
5. Transformers: ROTF
6. Land of the Lost
7. Night at The Museum 2
8. Wolverine
There’s a Ninja in My Garden
Submitted by Howard Tayler on June 23, 2009 - 00:18
Well, no. There isn’t. Garden Ninja Painting Studio lives in somebody else’s garden. But they’re good friends of mine, and good things are coming.
Clearance Cleared, Biff Booked
Submitted by Howard Tayler on June 19, 2009 - 10:52
Y’all went through our scratch-and-dent books pretty fast, folks. It almost makes me wish our volunteers had dropped a couple of cases of books down the stairs or something.
Post-Shipping Clearance
Submitted by Howard Tayler on June 16, 2009 - 22:41
With Scrapyard out the door Sandra is in the throes of the post-shipping clean up. You should see the basement. It looked like a tornado hit it. Then it looked like FEMA hit it. Then it looked like nice, competent professionals came in and put everything back together.
Anyway, part of this clean-up process includes updating the store listings to reflect actual inventory. We found a few more mousepads, pins, and loose magnets lying around.
