Everything's Coming Up Samuraipunk
Salons, TRPG Bundles, Podcasts, and Fiction
Honored samurai, ruthless ronin, wayward vagabonds, shadowy ninja and helpless villagers... welcome.
Opening Volley
It’s been a while. It’s been too long. But then, this was always meant to be a low-key newsletter.
Main Event
Whereas January was a rather solemn, quiet month, February is already shaping up to be extremely creative.
Slick back, dress up and grab yourself box seats for Rachel Haywire’s Cabaret of Secrets (in-line link below) — a live event of speakers, performances and fiction readings, including yours truly! Armed with the first chapter of “The Daimyo’s Decoy,” I’ll be introducing a wider audience to the biopunk horrors of samuraipunk fiction. This is a paid event, so either grab or upgrade a subscription to Rachel’s newsletter or purchase a ticket via Eventbrite.
THIS EVENT IS HAPPENING SATURDAY NIGHT AMERICAN EASTERN STANDARD TIME!
If TRPGs are your thing, Rising Phoenix Games is curating a bundle of hidden indie gems. 16 titles for just $10 (over $50 in savings).
A variety of standalone, system agnostic, and minimalist TRPGs including INK (Invocation Nano-Kanji), a dicepool game by yours truly.
In a twilight, retro-future Japan, a secret war to control society through quasi-governmental Agents utilizing nano tattoos seethes beneath the harmonious veneer.
And if that weren’t enough, there’s a second TRPG project in the works that I can’t talk about yet, but stay tuned. I REALLY think you’ll dig it. Information as soon as we can release it.
Last, but not least, Siva has invited me to chat about my favorite fiction works on a podcast. Not sure when we will be able to record, but this is something I’d love to do within the next month or two.
We never meet without parting
Work continues on the DAIMYO’S DECOY novella. Hoping to release it (as promised) this year as a free serial through the newsletter, and as a paid ebook (and hopefully print book), so readers who want to support my work, may. Also working on second short story with Ayane, the plucky digital hologram kanji programmer and protagonist of “The Shrine Keeper.” Not limited to 1000 words this time, readers will learn a lot more about her, Gon (her mecha dragonfly companion) and the post-apocalyptic world they live in.
Until then!
Made in DNA
looking forward to it