Category Archives: Chapel Hill
What My Completely Honest CV Would Say
I did some stuff for games, some of them shipped. I wrote some stuff for magazines, some are still in business.
Jesse Petersen’s “Monsters In Your Neighborhood”
Monsters In Your Neighborhood is Jesse Petersen’s sequel to Club Monstrosity. In Club Monstrosity, we met a collection of Manhattan monsters. Swamp Thing, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Blob, the Invisible Man, a mummy, a vampire, and Alec, the … Continue reading
But I Kept Reading
After I wrote about some of the amazing books I’ve read, a friend asked me if I’m done getting awful books and from now on, I’m just reading and reviewing awesome novels. I’m quite pleased with my recent ARCs, but … Continue reading
Professional Discourse
Meg: I love that! And the students would love it too! But I’m afraid to link to Tumblr because Tumblr’s always two clicks away from porn. Coworker: Isn’t that the entire internet? Meg: You win.
Geek Girl Con
The Geek Girl Con event schedule is up and neither of my talks is scheduled for first thing in the morning or last thing at night! I’m on a panel about women working in games at 11 on Saturday morning, … Continue reading
Action Figures
My friend Tricia Lupien, who writes and draws the webcomic Swiftriver, has just done the cover for a new book, Action Figures: Issue 1 – Secret Origins (Volume 1) by Michael Bailey. Really proud of you, Tricia! (I just bought … Continue reading
Disease
Colleague: I’m glad your project is going viral. Meg: That’s a very kind exaggeration. (But I am happy that someone outside our office has seen it.) Colleague: It’s a cold now, but we’re on the way to Ebola.
Lucha Tigre
Lucha Tigre is a new Latin / Asian fusion eatery on Chapel Hill’s Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard*, tucked into the Foster’s/Flyleaf stripmall. (Well, I’m saying it’s new, because whenever I mention it, I’m told that it used to be … Continue reading
‘It’s Just A Game’ Zine
It’s Just A Game arrived today! I’m very pleased to be part of this collection. Probably the best part was going through the links in the bios and discovering the other contributors’ game and writing projects. Edited: The first print run … Continue reading
Future Tech 1
My new colleague and I were at work, looking through his Make magazine and talking about awesome MakerFaire printouts, when I noticed that a small section of a page had been clipped out. My colleague told me he’d snipped out … Continue reading
