Los Angeles in the 1930s WPA Guide next to a large delta green coffee cup on a Haunted West mousepad.
This morning’s #BooksAndBrews is a trip into 1930s Los Angeles, more #DeadCityBlues research and keeping the gears turning. ☕📚🌴
The game’s coming along nicely, and I’m locking in the sweet spot between grounded history, hardboiled noir, and magick. That balance is the key and it’s starting to sing.
Delta Green coffee mug beans Crime Novels book on patio table outside on beautiful day.
Delta Green coffee mug beans Crime Novels book open to the Postman Always Rings Twice on patio table outside on beautiful day.
Doggie with ball in her mouth to be thrown
Just trying to get an hour of #BooksAndBrews reading to get into the right headspace for #DeadCityBlues writing tonight after the day job… but the doggie clearly has other plans for me. 🐶📚
And honestly, look at that face. How am I supposed to say no?
Black company with a cup of coffee
Taking a break for #BooksAndBrews, cracking open Book 4 of #TheBlackCompany, #ShadowGames. ☕⚔️
Been enjoying this research, reading, and diving deeper into the world. Soon I’ll be shifting gears into Phase 2 playtester feedback… which should be a blast in a very different way. 😄🎲
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I had fun meeting readers and writers over the weekend, like Mary Boyle and Quinelle Bethelmie at #BooksandBrews and author and volunteer Ken Boekhaus (who writes under Ken L. Burke) at #carrolltonbookfest, plus other Atlanta area authors including Gaby Anderson and Robert Gwaltney.
Bookmail!
1. I saw these books that needed a good home and so I liberated them from #BooksandBrews in Tucker, GA. They just had too many good books in there! More for my entry way table!
2. BRBF Preorder books are in! I'm so excited to see everyone and SLING some BOOKS!
The Illustrated Man by Bradbury, with a Starbucks outside on a table.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the books I enjoyed as a kid and feeling the pull to revisit them. So I’m kicking things off with a classic: The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. 📚✨
There’s something special about returning to stories that helped shape you and seeing them now. #BooksandBrews
Munchkin Quest, Munchkin Quest 2, Munchkin Cthulhu, and Booty near a cup of coffee.
Today’s #BooksAndBrews is really more of a #BoardGamesAndBrews. 🍻🎲 Broke out a stack of my Munchkin stuff and started flipping through them again, still such chaotic fun.
What’s your favorite Munchkin and why? Or have you never played one?
The Unnatural Engine v.2.0 by Dennis Detwiller word document draft. Next to a Swing's coffee cup and a keyboard. All on a Haunted West mousepad of a Demon train battle in the Old West.
Reading Dennis’s Unnatural Engine ruleset this morning and I’m once again struck by his design sense. It’s clean, crisp, and concise, everything exactly where it needs to be. 📚🎲
Definitely need to get this one to the table soon. #BooksandBrews
A little #booksandbrews session with Lorain Brewing and Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins! #booksky #beersky #brewsky
Makers & Shakers: A Hidden History of Black Americans in Booze on a Haunted West mousepad of Demon Train battle near a Captain America filled coffee mug.
This morning’s #BooksandBrews: Makers & Shakers: A Hidden History of Black Americans in Booze. ☕🥃
It was a gift I’m excited to dive into, maybe it sparks a new scenario, or maybe it’s just the joy of reading something I love.
Thank you, Jill!
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Tonight's #booksandbrews features Bumming Beaver Brewery and The Chateau Murder by Greg Mosse! #booksky #currentlyreading #reader #brewsky #beersky
Had a little mid week #BooksandBrews at Brighten Brewing last night. They had an adult book fair and I confess, I was unable to resist the draw. Their robust porter is top notch! #booksky #reader
Glen Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company with a stout-filled Black is Beautiful beer glass with the opened Dark Hollow stout beside it.
Doing some very enjoyable “research” reading with Shadows Linger on this beautiful Saturday. 📚⚔️ Should be wrapping it up and moving into The White Rose next.
Sometimes you just have to pause and say… I love my job. #BooksandBrews #GrimDark
The Monsters We Defy on an iPad
This morning’s #BooksandBrews read, The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope. 📚✨
I started it a while back and I’m really looking forward to diving back in.
The Big Book of the Continental OP by Dashiell Hammett on a Haunted West mouse pad with a Delta Green giant coffee cup in the background filled with coffee.
This morning’s #BooksAndBrews is me slipping back into the right headspace for #DeadCityBlues. ☕🕵️♂️ I’m rereading The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett and letting that hardboiled rhythm do its work.
Trying a few new things with the game, and I’m really liking how it’s shaping up. #HarlemUnbounding
Delta Green Impossible Landscape near a coffee cup
This morning’s #BooksAndBrews hour is me diving back into Impossible Landscapes for Delta Green. ☕👁️ I love a great campaign, and this is easily up there with the best ever published. Am I biased? Absolutely. Does that make it any less true? Not even a little. 😄📚
Cthulhu Confidential Corebook and sourcebook Even Death Can Die with note pad and Delta Green coffee mug all on a Haunted West mousepad.
This morning’s #BooksAndBrews hour is all about reacquainting myself with #CthulhuConfidential mechanics so I can run a it for a Patreon backer later this month. ☕🕵️♂️ Before rereading my own scenario, luckily, I’ve been deep in a noir headspace lately, so the vibes are already doing some of the work.
#booksandbrews number two for the weekend at Hop Brothers Brewing. Still featuring Suzanne Collins because I can't read that fast 😅 #booksky #brewsky #beersky
Honestly, I love Schnitz Ale Brewing. They are very style conscious, and their Bavarian food is a can't miss. Fav of the day was their Scott's an Evil Man, a Scotch ale that will leave you craving more! #beersky #brewsky #craftbeer #booksandbrews
Weekend #booksandbrews featuring Schnitz Ale Production House and The Balad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. #currentlyreading #craftbeer #brewsky #beersky #booksky
Black Gotham by Carla Peterson next to a french press coffee pot and full Swing's coffee cup.
This morning’s hour of #BooksandBrews is all research, 19th-century New York for Black Gotham paired with a proper French press coffee. ☕📚
Having #booksandbrews at Saucy Brew Works, the bartender here deserves a raise. He gently intervened in a situation where I felt super uncomfortable, what a guy. Cannot appreciate him enough. #booksky #brewsky #craftbeer
My first #booksandbrews adventure for the year featuring Paz by Liz Shipton and Southern Tier Brewing Company! Southern Tier is a craft staple in the northeastern US and we are so lucky to have a satellite in Cleveland! #craftbeer #beersky #booksky #reader #currentlyreading
The Black Company Chronicles by Glen Cook next to a Krispy Kreme donut and a Starbucks latte.
This morning’s #BooksandBrews is more #BlackCompany & I’m having a great time with it. I’m gearing up to run #ArcDream 's The Black Company RPG playtest for my group next month. I’ve got a strong feeling they’re going to love it, though I’ll admit I might be a tad biased. ☕📚 #GameDevelopment #TTRPG
Western Roundup Magazine: The World of Western Noir issue, beside biscotti, a full Delta Green coffee mug, all on a Haunted West demon train map.
Been grinding away at the day job & taking a #BooksAndBrews hour with a holiday biscotti, a coffee, & my new Western Writers Magazine. ☕🍪📖 Doing some reading to shift my brain into Haunted West mode before this afternoon’s writing sprint. Anyone else have a ritual to get into their creative zone? 🤠✍️
This morning’s hour #BooksAndBrews is still me narrowing down the family TTRPG, with a dive into Werewolf: The Apocalypse. ☕🐺 They asked for: Modern-ish, investigative, action-heavy, with magic, supernatural, or superpowers, this is #2 of my 5 finalists. Am I overthinking it? Probably. 🎲😄
The Black Company TTRPG playtest kit with the scenario The Summer of Riots by Arc Dream near a Darker Hue Studios coffee cup all on a Haunted West mouse pad.
Today’s #BooksAndBrews is a reread of The Summer Riots for my #TheBlackCompanyTTRPG playtest later this month. ☕⚔️ The mechanics are brutal in the best way laser-focused on what it means to be a mortal soldier in a merciless world, where survival hinges on the Company and who's watching your flank.
