News 7/5/08: The first book, The Severed Earth, is currently undergoing a last round of crits & revisions through a professional workshop, and will get shipped around to publishers by the end of the year. And to my astonishment, the crits have been mostly "Why hasn't this been published yet???"
Unfortunately, this (and a couple encounters with idiot website owners who think that they can post others' stories as "theirs") means that the tales are no longer being sent out. I've worked too long & hard on revising this series for mainstream publication to have it ruined by Stupid Stupid Internet Creatures who have no sense of courtesy or copyright. I hate resorting to legal action, but I will and have done so; I hold legal, registered copyright on all these tales.
These are the infamous "Seven Kingdoms" fan tales, originally posted on the Journey Digest way back in 1994/1995.
The Kingdoms had its start around 1992, when I based a Dungeons & Dragons campaign on Steve Perry's "Oh Sherrie" video ("What about the kidnapping of the princess, the Flaming Forest of Doom, the battle to the death between good & evil...?"). In 1994, there was a contest for the best tale on "how Journey would get back together", shortly after Steve Perry put out "For The Love of Strange Medicine". Envisioning the Digest getting flooded by sentimental Mary-Sue romantics, I decided I would send in a different kind of weirdness. I found the notes from that old game campaign, D&D and Journey collided, and it's spiraled out of control ever since.
Only teasers are posted here, sorry.
Anyway, "The Tales" will get you both the Kingdoms
stories and some of the non-Kingdoms' tales I've
written. "RPG World" is a site that I put up when
I started playing Dungeons & Dragons again recently,
and wanted to give my players an ongoing reference
into the world of Kern & Chulain. "Scribbles" is
my second "blog" area, where I've posted outtakes,
drabbles, and in-progress works that don't currently
rate their own page on the Shrine. Have fun exploring!