Sunday, March 06, 2011
A couple of useful bits of pdf software
PDF to Word accurately converts pdf files to word files online.
Youblisher converts your pdf files to flippable, magazine-like online documents.
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
Literary Agent Jessica Faust is in the market for steampunk and fantasy novels.
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Here’s an easy way to convert books from Amazon’s DRM format to another ereader format. This’ll be useful for me. I have a Sony ereader, but sometimes the book I want is available only in Amazon’s proprietary format. Amazon’s Kindle
The method in the link above uses the free ebook manager Calibre and a few plug ins to convert the book to the proper format as you import it into Calibre.
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
The Steampunk Writers Guild looks like an interesting group. I’ve been into Steampunk/Victorian Sci Fi since I first saw Space 1889 back in the early 1980s. That’s still one of my favorite RPGs.
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Sunday, December 12, 2010
The Boardgame Remix Kit is a book with new ways to play old favorites: Monopoly, Clue (Cluedo), Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit. Some of the remixes are simply ways to streamline or speed up play. Others are entirely new ways to play with the existing pieces. From the sample chapters, it’s worth taking a look.
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Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games. Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess. Models range in height from 6mm to 28mm tall, with 15mm and 25mm being the most popular. There also is a growing interest in toy soldiers and military models, such as the 1/32 and 1/35 scale plastic soldiers from Conte, and Marx.
The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings. World War II games such as Flames of War and Axis and Allies are new favorites. Other favorite historical periods include Napoleonics, the American Civil War, and ancients, such as Romans or Greeks. Other gamers enjoy miniature naval wargames, recreating battles like Trafalgar, Jutland and the Coral Sea.
Hobbyists research historical periods and paint their tiny soldiers in accurate uniforms. Others develop "historically realistic" rules sets or build scale battlefield terrain using model railroad techniques.
For pictures, visit the gallery.
Some of the bigger hobby companies are Games Workshop, which produces Warhammer, Wargames Foundry and Old Glory Miniatures. Wizards of the Coast produces several lines of pre-painted miniatures games, such as the Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures games, and a historical game with pre-painted miniatures: The new Axis and Allies game. Wizkids produces a fantasy collectable miniatures game, such as the Mage Knight and Heroclick fantasy games, the science fiction games MechWarrior and Rocketmen, as well as the quasi-historical Pirates of the Spanish Main.
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