The Paul S. Kemp and Wizards of the Coast reunion tour

I’m pleased to announce that the matters I alluded to here have been resolved and that WotC and I are getting the band back together for a reunion tour.

This means that I will, in fact, be continuing the story of Riven, Mags, Cale, and his son, Vasen.  This pleases me muchly.  So much so that I think I’ll post a picture.

I posted about this last year:

Paul S. Kemp leaves Wizards of the Coast

“I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.“

-George Burns

Normally, I would not write anything about this, but I feel obliged to let those of you awaiting the release of Godborn know that I have ended my relationship with Wizards of the Coast. As a result, I will not be writing Godborn and my contribution to the Forgotten Realms will end with The Twilight War. I sincerely apologize to those of you who were awaiting The Cycle of Night.

All that happened here is that Wizards made a decision that they thought was appropriate (and was, in fact, based on perfectly valid reasons), but that decision conflicted with what I thought was appropriate. We tried to resolve matters in good faith, but it just wasn’t to be. It’s unfortunate, but it goes that way sometimes. And that’s all I’ll have to say about it so please don’t ask for further details.

I remain grateful to Wizards for publishing my novels, and in particular have nothing but the highest of praise for my editor, Phil Athans. Honestly, my primary regret here is that I feel like I’ve let a lot of you down. So again, please accept my apologies if you were one of those awaiting Godborn.

-Paul S. Kemp

This The Cycle of Night series was to start next year and undoubtedly Godborn was my most anticipated novel of 2010. I suppose this is part of the problem with publishers and shared fiction in general, now we may never get to read the tale of Vasen Cale…

Damn I was looking forward to this.

I know Paul will continue to churn out great works of fiction but alas I am not a fan of star wars books and that seems to be what he is working on at the moment. I am disappointed in Wotc for not doing whatever it took to keep on one of the best FR novelists.

You can keep up with Paul at his live journal: http://paulskemp.livejournal.com/

Controller Map by Butt Johnson

Found this Image today via Stumble, pretty neat.

Overcompensating does it again! I especially like the last panel…

$th of July

Awesome Over the top Patriotic Theme party at Jason’s tonigyht, should be a blast!

Thanks to Laura for the idea

Ranger the Dinosaur

So yea the tablet rocks, well worth the money.

Genius G-Pen M712

Its no Wacom but for 128.00 it most certainly can hold me over until I can save up for a Cintiq.

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Now playing: The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
via FoxyTunes

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Now playing: Regina Spektor – On The Radio
via FoxyTunes

Ashenwiki is good to go.

Chat is up and running.

Ashen Steam still needs some tweaks.

Unmentionables will need to be rebuilt.

I decided to scrap all my old database files which isn’t a big loss as there was not much here to begin with.