William King http://www.williamking.me/ Author. Gamer. Wielder of the Doomhammer Wed, 04 Sep 2019 12:26:03 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 https://i0.wp.com/www.williamking.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-favicon-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32 William King http://www.williamking.me/ 32 32 25028558 Magic Rings & Laser Beams Podcast Appearance http://www.williamking.me/2019/09/04/magic-rings-laser-beams-podcast-appearance/ http://www.williamking.me/2019/09/04/magic-rings-laser-beams-podcast-appearance/#comments Wed, 04 Sep 2019 12:26:03 +0000 http://www.williamking.me/?p=4391 A little while back I spent an enjoyable hour chatting with Ben Sherman of the Magic Rings & Laser Beams’s podcast. We covered a number of subjects including Gotrek’s conversational skills, Illidan’s motivations and my long term alternative career as a gamer. If you’re interested in hearing my dulcet Scottish tones you can catch the conversation here. I make my entrance about the 19 minute mark.

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]]> http://www.williamking.me/2019/05/15/my-accidental-bestseller/feed/ 11 3197 A Dragon from the Desert Released http://www.williamking.me/2019/04/10/a-dragon-from-the-desert-released/ http://www.williamking.me/2019/04/10/a-dragon-from-the-desert-released/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2019 13:07:04 +0000 http://www.williamking.me/?p=2711 A Dragon from the Desert, the first book in my new Dragonbond series, set in the same world as the Kormak saga, has been released. You can purchase it at all your favourite ebook retailers. It will be selling at $2.99 (or the local equivalent) for the next few days then the price will rise to $4.99. A print version will be released as soon as I approve the proofs. Read more...

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]]> http://www.williamking.me/2018/11/08/oops/feed/ 0 7 The Black Hack Review http://www.williamking.me/2017/12/20/the-black-hack-review/ http://www.williamking.me/2017/12/20/the-black-hack-review/#comments Wed, 20 Dec 2017 21:46:18 +0000 http://www.williamking.me/?p=2639 Among the several anniversaries I somehow neglected to celebrate on the blog this year was the fortieth of my first encounter with Dungeons and Dragons, back when it came in three tiny booklets in a white box. I bring it up now because reading The Black Hack takes me right back to my student days of late night dungeoneering sessions and permadeath treks across hexcrawl wildernesses. And I mean that in a good way. The Black Hack describes itself as an OSR First Edition Hack. It’s named after its author, David Black. The game reads like the distilled essence of Read more...

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]]> http://www.williamking.me/2017/12/20/the-black-hack-review/feed/ 1 2639 Google Docs for Novel Writing http://www.williamking.me/2017/03/15/google-docs-for-novel-writing/ http://www.williamking.me/2017/03/15/google-docs-for-novel-writing/#comments Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:50:41 +0000 http://www.williamking.me/?p=2643 For the past ten years or so, I have mostly used Scrivener to write my books. It’s a powerful piece of software that gives you a great deal of control over the structure of any work in progress. It makes backups a breeze and it tracks your daily word count as you write. It can also do an enormous amount of other stuff. You can take snapshots of individual scenes and chapters in a work, and then roll back changes if you are unhappy with them. It can show views of your work as an outline or as a set Read more...

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