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Determined to foment a rebellion
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Permanent Account Created on 2002-03-11 23:45:42 (#492827), last updated 2011-12-21
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Basic Info| Name: | Erin Hoffman |
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| Website: | ErinHoffman.com |
Bio
Sword of Fire and Sea, high magic adventure fantasy debuting June 21, 2011 from Pyr Books! Click here to preorder with Amazon!
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I'm a game designer and freelance writer currently living in northern California with the wonderful
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jsridler and our parrots and dog. I've got a few bios littered around the web, but you can always google stalk me, too. It'd be cool if you emailed me if you did so, but I've given up asking people to actually make contact. Ah, Internet anonymity...If you'd like to read some of what I think about a bunch of things, see this 2009 interview with Charles Tan. Thanks, Charles!
Standard disclaimer, this is a personal journal, and most of it is "friends only", which means you need to sign up for a livejournal and then add me to your friends list. I generally add back people who drop me a comment introducing themselves, and then you can see, as they say, the inside shit. I like meeting new people and especially connecting with folk who share my interests, so please don't be shy.
I'm rather terrible at keeping this up to date, but if you're looking for my writing, here are a few semi-recent pointers:
- Novels
- Sword of Fire and Sea -- Pyr Books, forthcoming!
- Fiction
- "City of Shadow and Glass" -- in Bull Spec, forthcoming
- "Regal Achievement" -- in 9 Magazine, May 2010
- "Darkest Amber" -- in Electric Velocipede, Fall 2009
- "Stormchaser, Stormshaper" -- in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 14 [review]
- "Impress of the Hills" -- in Spacesuits and Sixguns, forthcoming
- "Root and Vein" -- in Clockwork Phoenix, July 2008, [review]
- Poetry
- "Oneness" -- in Not One of Us, forthcoming
- "Lightning Over the St. Lawrence" -- in Space and Time, Fall 2009
- "Osteometry" -- in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2009
- "Beauty Sleep" -- in Mythic Delirium, Issue 20 [review] [review] [review]
- "No Signal" and "Bag Man" -- in Farrago's Wainscot, Oct 2009
- Nonfiction
- Inside Job -- a biweekly column for The Escapist
- "Enhancing Humanity: Dr. Elliot Avedon and the University of Waterloo's Museum and Archive of Games"
- "Holding Out for a Heroine"
- "Cyberpunked: the Fall of Black9"
- "Hail to the Kitty"
- "Slave to the Beat"
- "Someone Stole My Magic Sword"
- "Writing Pitch Docs and Exec Docs", chapter in Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing, which you should hie yourself out and purchase immediately.
And just for bonus, my tag link at the Escapist, affirming my laziness in updating this page!
- Appearances -- yep, tacking this on here
- "Kids, Tweens & Teens" -- State of Play, June 2009
- "Happiness is Mandatory: Emergent Ethics in Massive Online Environments" -- Games + Learning + Society, June 2009
- "From Enlightenment to Action: Year Two of the BetterEULA Project" -- LOGIN Conference, May 2009
- "Interactive Narrative and Game Design" workshop -- Context 21, September 2008
- "From Feudalism to Enlightenment: Building a Better EULA" -- Austin GDC, September 2008
- "Forest for the Trees: Long Term Career Planning in the Games Industry" -- Westwood College, May 2008
- "Real Rights in a Virtual World" -- ION Conference, May 2008
- "From Feudalism to Enlightenment: User Rights in Virtual Worlds" -- IMGDC, April 2008
- "Warrior Queens of the Cyberworld: How Massively Multiplayer Online Teams Gravitate Toward Female Leads" -- Immersive Worlds 2007
- "Plugged In: Why Game Developers Make Great Parents" -- Montreal International Games Summit 2007
"Caught between the sweet life and nefarious necessity..."
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Troy, NYXavier Institute for Higher Learning - North Salem, NY
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