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Catching Up

It has been almost a year since I posted here.  Let's catch up.

My flash fiction story, Echo was published by Every Day Fiction.  It's a tale of a nymph and a tape recorder.

My flash fiction story, Mutilation was recently published by Every Day Fiction. A young prisoner finds wisdom from some older inmates' mistakes.

Mutilation was one of EDF's Top 10 stories in the past 30 days. 

Talisman Studios rebranded ourselves as Savage Mojo (same products, same people, new name).  Flames Rising did a nice write-up about the name change and the reasons behind it.  "After years of creating great gaming titles under the name ‘Talisman Studios’, we’ve decided that it’s time our real name… Savage Mojo… became known in its own right. After all, we focus on the Savage Worlds and Mojo Rules! roleplay systems, so it makes sense to use the name we gave the company."

Also, I got married on October 4th.  We had a pirate themed wedding and it was a lot of fun.

Happy New Year!

Free Musketeers!

Characters created by your humble narrator are now available from Talisman Studios ... Musketeers, a myserious Lady, a Cardinal of dubious virtue and a beautiful portrait painter (among others).

Illustrated by the talented Alida Saxon, written by me, I present to you the Free Musketeers Story Cards, specifically written for Suzerain but convertible to supplement your plot in any roleplaying game that involves swashbuckling.

Happy Friday!

Stolen Kiss

Today my short short story (it's about 200 words) Stolen Kiss is up on Every Day Fiction.

Last night we dreamed of angels.

A Gallery of Rogues

My latest written creation - a set of eight pirate background stories and one smashing introduction - is now available.  It's called Pirates Set 2.

The Gamescapes Story Cards are published by Talisman Studios.  Gamescapes products fill out your roleplaying campaigns with additional characters, weapons, locations and story seeds.  The Pirates characters in particular have many twisted inter-relationships and a lot of room for a Storyteller (or Marshall or GM or whatever you call yourself) expand and improvise.

Contained in this set: a 21-page high resolution pdf with 8 full color character cards plus a choice of backings. There are two pages of backstory and individual character descriptions to accompany each portrait. As a bonus, we're including cut-out tokens for each character, allowing you to visualise them on our Gamescapes story maps.

Get the Pirates Story Cards here.

A little teaser from the intro. story:

Jacques DuMaison’s head felt clear despite the rum, despite the lateness of the hour. The masked woman took his arm when he offered it, walking beside him to the dueling green. He noticed that she too walked with a sure gait, though he’d seen her drink several sailors under the thick oak tables at the Bosun’s Quarters.

“It’s pitch black,” he said.

“There are provisions for darkness,” she replied, striking flint and tinder to find and light the lamps that surrounded the green’s perimeter.

He fingered his rapier, waiting for her to return to him. When she did, he said, “I have rarely lost a duel, ma chere.”

If you want to know what happens next, read the Story Cards!

Black Sails

My short story, His Mother's Son has been published in Black Sails, an anthology of tales of Pirate Fantasy published by 1018 Press.
There are 16 stories in the anthology, a swashbucklingly good read from beginning to end!

Order a copy of the book here!

Arr, Matey!

My pirate short story, His Mother's Son is going to be published in the Black Sails anthology from 1018 Press.  Black Sails will be out in print in late May, so you won't have long to wait if you want to get a copy!

Legend of Five Shadows

I'm co-authoring a Deadlands graphic novel called The Legend of Five Shadows with Aaron Acevedo.

The bloody spooky Weird West goodness of it all is coming soon!

The Secret of Gardons

The Secret of Gardons is a twenty-two episode work of serial fiction written by Michelle Klein Castle.

"A precis of the tale - When the Priory of Gardons is burned and raided by a mysterious group of armed men, young Drood the novice must carry on the Abbot's secret legacy, a mission that will lead him through many perils and into the heart of a conspiracy that threatens the monarchy of France. Once he leaves his sheltered life in the country, Drood learns that some of the folk tales he was told as a child are not merely fancy, and not all of them are sugar and sweetness."

Welcome

Welcome to the future home of freelance writer Michelle Klein.  Pardon us while we decorate.