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  • Ars Magica Crowdfundings

    My first professional publication for Ars Magica came out in 1993, in White Wolf Magazine. Things rather grew from there, and I spent over a decade as the Line Developer. When I retired from that position, I ended up taking a break for a few years, but now I’m back.

    First, I prepared the text for the upcoming Definitive Edition. The text is now done and is being laid out, and the crowdfunding launches in a few days.

    Second, part of the crowdfunding is the release of Ars Magica under an open license (CC BY-SA), and I have a Patreon at which I am writing for that license. The licensing has not happened yet, but I have permission from Atlas to do that. When you have been working with them on the line for years, you can do that.

    I am looking forward to writing for the game again!

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My Writing

Fiction

I have written some fiction.

Academic

I have published a few peer-reviewed academic works, on philosophy and Japanese history.

Roleplaying Games

I have written for roleplaying games.

Mimusubi

Mimusubi is my project for non-fiction writing about Shinto. It has its own website.

Recent Blog Posts

  • Say “Please”

    We all eat dinner together as a family, although Mayuki shows a variable amount of interest in the food on offer. I wouldn’t say that she’s picky, but what she decides to eat varies from day to day. Sometimes, she decides that she wants to be fed, and asks Yuriko or me for food. It’s…

  • Shinto Controversies Course — 3rd Lecture

    Yesterday, I went to the third lecture in this year’s open Shinto course at Kokugakuin University. The topic was the Sacred Marriage hypothesis. In this context, this is the claim that certain Shinto rituals originally included an act of ritual sex, as a central part of the rite. The lecturer, Professor Okada, does not believe…

  • Global Phenomenon

    I listened to yesterday’s Yomiuri Podcast this morning as I was having a walk. Susan Boyle failing to win Britain’s Got Talent was one of the news items. A genuine global phenomenon.

  • Spammers

    Spammers are using davidchart.com addresses in their From: field again at the moment, so I’m being flooded with undeliverable message responses from really, really stupid MTAs. My junk mail filters are being pretty good at picking them up, but if I send an email to you and it really bounces, I won’t know. (I’m getting…

  • All Fine

    We’re all fine here. I’m just not finding time to write in my blog. That’s bad, of course. I really should write more here. But not today.

  • Review Me!

    I’ve just registered Tamao on Web Fiction Guide, so if you like the story you can now go and review it over there. Remember, what every author really wants is several thousand words of closely-reasoned adulation. (Not me, but Google has two different attributions on the first page, so I don’t know who.)

  • Google Being Strange

    I’m using Google AdWords as one of the ways to advertise Tamao, and Google AdSense as one of the ways to make money off it. The ads displayed on AdSense sites are the ones paid for by AdWords customers. They are targeted by Google’s clever metrics to appear on sites where the readers might be…

  • Part Four Completed

    I’ve just finished part four, which takes us more than half way through the plotted-out story. Since the first four parts come to just under 125,000 words, I suspect that, when it comes time to produce a printed version, I’ll split the work somewhere around here, either at the end of part four or at…

  • More Photos of Mayuki

    Sonoe has taken some more photographs of Mayuki. These were taken a week or so ago, while I was working. As always, the text in is Japanese, but you can enjoy the pictures.

  • Another Method

    So, people reading this on my main blog are likely to be confused, but I’m checking to see whether I can put comments onto Tamao without interrupting the story over there. This is another possible method. If you haven’t checked out Tamao yet, please do. If you’re reading this on Tamao, er, thanks…