Tag Archives: Chapel Hill

Geek Girl Con

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Meg

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 →

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Action Figures

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Meg

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 →

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Disease

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Meg

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.

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Lucha Tigre

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Meg

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 →

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‘It’s Just A Game’ Zine

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Meg

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 →

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Future Tech 1

Posted on September 15, 2013 by Meg

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 →

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The Returned

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Meg

A few nights ago, Harold asked me to go to a reading at Flyleaf with him, for a new novel called The Returned. I’d actually heard of this book before, but mentally translated “story in which the dead return” as … Continue reading →

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Flavortext Emergency!

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Meg

My boss: Meg, can you come in here? We need a game writer right away! Meg: I think I’ve been waiting years for someone to say that.

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Dim Sum House

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Meg

The other day, Harold and I got talking about how great dim sum is, and when I sighed about how we just couldn’t squeeze Chinatown into our last New York trip, we turned to the internet to find North Carolina … Continue reading →

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Notch’s Surprising New Projects – Youth Digital

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Meg

Part of my new job involves tech and games blogging for kids eight and up. Here’s my first piece, it was difficult for me to take out the industry snarking, but I think the result is child-friendly without being condescending. … Continue reading →

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