New! Our translation of Djuna’s short story “Where’s Your Dad?” is forthcoming (fall 2026) in the collection Memoir of a Joseon Bride, along with many stories translated by Adrian Thieret, and published by Honford Star. Preorder a copy here.
New! South Korean SF author Djuna’s Not Yet Gods in a new English translation by Jihyun Park and me, coming soon (2027?) from Kaya Press. Click here to visit the Kaya webpage for the book and preorder it from the publisher!
New! Further Strangeness: Twelve New Knights, Seers, and Myths for Mythic Bastionland is an unofficial and unlicensed supplement for Chris McDowall’s wonderful new game, and my entry for the Mythic Bastionland Game Jam. Available for free over on my itch.io webpage.
New! Circe’s Grin is a system-agnostic old-school RPG adventure, and my entry for the Appx. N 2025 game jam. Available for free (for now) on my itch.io webpage.
New from Knight Owl Publishing: Isle of Joy is a harrowing old-school adventure on a mysterious island full of secrets and stories. Order a copy on Knight Owl’s website.
Something Tookish! is a Brindlewood Bay RPG hack for those who want to solve mundane, cozy mysteries in a halfling village. With art by Justin Howe! Get your copy on itch.io!
Now available: FERMENTVM NIGRVM DEI SEPVLTI (Black Yeast of the Buried God) from LotFP! Text by me, illustrations by Gonzalo Æneas, layout by Jacob Hurst, editing by Joshua Blackketter, maps by Alex Mayo. OSR adventure set in a brewing abbey in historical Westphalia.
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My OSR Conversions Guide for the Koryo Hall of Adventures 5E setting book is now available over at DriveThru RPG.
My short story “Sojourn” appeared in A City of Han, available on Amazon.com.
See a complete list of my publications and forthcoming work.
If I kiss you my wife will kill so how about a simple congratulations.
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday! I’d kiss you, but a transoceanic snog might sprain my lips. ;-)
smooch!
Thanks, guys.
(looks at list again)
So far it’s all guys. *sigh* Ah well, I’ll be seeing Lime in an hour, so all’s well.
Happy Birthday! Sorry, No Kiss, how about a warm hug?
I can manage a hug. 생일 축하해요!
Happy Birthday!
I got chocolate fondue for breakfast, hope your Lime is taking as good care of you.
I had back problems last summer. I learned the hard way that you have to be careful when taking a Ti-Pou in your arms. I found that generic painkillers and taking extra care to rest my back muscles made the problems go away, although very very slowly. This is not something that gets fixed overnight, or even in the scope of a week.
I found that ibuprofen gives good results. That’s what the pharmacist recommended for muscle pain.
JL
HAPPPPPPPPPPPYYYYYYYYY BIRTHDAY big brother!
It’s early morning for us here, and I just got to work and saw the date, and the first thing that I did was email you.
I hope that you have a splendid day. I hope that your back ache goes away soon.
Have a good day, and a good dark beer from me!
Thanks, everyone! :)
Annie, when you write “email”, do you mean “Left a message on this blog”? Because I can’t find any email from you!
Jean-Louis… yeah, I’ve actually had this pain twice before, once in India from lifting Ritu’s Ti-Pou (Koko) and once in Montreal from, well, the bad posture and too much uninterrupted computing that I think did it this time.
It can be slow, but you know, with the proper physiotherapy, it can be a little less slow. I’ve broken out all the old stretches I was taught in Montreal, and the physio ball that I bought to sit on (and stupidly replaced with an office chair), and adopted one Korean thing: a medicated sticky patch applied to the area in pain. This patch is called a “pah-seu” and it’s quite good. I awoke this morning with significantly less pain than the morning before. In fact, though the pain was mainly on the right side, I feel the side-effect peripheral pain on the left side much more clearly.
As for long term… I think I shall exercise a lot, and get this gut’s muscles into shape before I ever have a Ti-Pou of my own to lift, else I’ll be in constant pain!
Oh, and Lime took good care of me. But that’s the subject of my next post!
Happy Birthday, Gord! I hope you get some nice miyeokguk.
Oh, and here’s a gift I thought you would like: http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/
In case you ever have a creative block.
many happy returns gord!