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San Japan in San Antonio: The Riverwalk, The Alamo and thousands of cosplayers!

Ellen and I had a great time in San Antonio this August at the incredible fancon San Japan. San Antonio is a beautiful city and San Japan was a great time for everyone! The con was held right next to … Continue reading

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GLaDOS solos MomoCon!

Ellen was a very brave soldier to travel to MomoCon all by herself. Yes, the voice of GLaDOS is a chicken when it comes to travel on her own. Since our meeting 28 years ago I’ve accompanied her on 99% … Continue reading

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Dancing with Eternity wins the ForeWord Firsts Debut Fiction Award

http://www.forewordreviews.com/Something like this doesn’t happen every day. I had a feeling, when I was working on Dancing with Eternity, that I had a special story to tell. I tried to tell it as honestly and as humorously as I could. … Continue reading

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MAGFest!!

Ellen and I arrived at MAGFest, Washington D.C.’s music and game festival, prepared for awesomeness and it didn’t disappoint. MAGFest was held at The Gaylord, a hotel wrapped around a theme park on the shores of the Potomac and filled … Continue reading

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The Tor.com Reader’s Choice Awards

Vote for Dancing with Eternity on the Tor.com Readers Choice Awards!! All votes are write-ins. Just scroll to the bottom of the page and submit a comment to vote! Vote early! Vote often! All votes must be in by midnight … Continue reading

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At MAGFest!

Dates: Jan 5 – 8, 2012 (Thu – Sun) MAGFest is a music and video gaming festival run by fans, for fans. In more verbose terms, it’s an annual event dedicated to the celebration of video games and video game music. … Continue reading

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Ellen gets nominated for a VGA award, Part 3: Into the belly of the beast.

Okay, first let it be understood that award shows are to Hollywood as Hollywood is to normal human behavior.  That said, it was still really bizarre.  The thought that kept going through my head the whole evening was, “Reality has … Continue reading

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Ellen gets nominated for a VGA award, Part 2: On to L.A.!

Off to Los Angeles!  We flew down with Erik Wolpaw, Jay Pinkerton and his wife and Josh Weier and his wife, all Valve denizens who were up for awards, too.  Party plane!  Well, not really.  I mean, it was a … Continue reading

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Ellen gets nominated for a VGA award! Part 1

My beautiful and talented wife, Ellen McLain, was nominated for Best Performance by a Human Female at the Video Game Awards this year for her performance as GLaDOS in Portal 2.  This was fun news to receive.  I mean, how … Continue reading

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Geek Media Expo in Nashville 2011!!!

October was a busy month, so I’m a little behind on my blogging.  Ellen and I visited three major cities, Portland, OR, Atlanta and Nashville, TN, Ellen’s home town.  The most recent visit was to Nashville for Geek Media Expo, … Continue reading

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