Today's Second Life Event or What I really want to do because I don't care about the SuperBowl.

Sunday 3 February at 6:30 PM Eastern Standard Time/3:30 PM Second Life Time, Third Life Books is hosting a talk with author, editor and game designer Wolfgang Bauer. Wolfgang is the editor of the Kobold Quarterly, has worked for Wizards of the Coast and is the founder of the game design community known as Open Design. (In his stint as an editor of Dragon Magazine, he even bought a story of mine.) Wolfgang is a great guy to talk to, and can provide insights on gaming, writing, and how to break into the gaming industry. We’re really happy to have him as our guest.

Second Life, for those who have never chatted online, is a graphical chat interface. It does not cost money to register or use. It operates on a “micro-economy” model, which is to say that you can uses it for free, but you can do a lot more if you just pay a little more here and there. I sell books in Second Life to cover the costs of promoting my work and having the space to hold seminars. Lots of other wildly creative people turn out really cool products to feed their habits, too.

If you hit the link above, download the software and head into Second Life, you can find me by searching for “Noble Charron.” That’s the name of my alter-ego in the world of SL. You can find the bookstore by searching on books, or ThirdLife, or clicking on this convenient link, which will take you directly there. When you arrive, please click on the sign at the front of Wordsmith Hall, so you can be added to the ThirdLife group, so I can get you announcements about things we will be doing.

I’ll post more about classes and workshops as they come around.

I’m very excited about all that can be done online, and I’m hoping you’ll join me taking this step forward into a wondrous future.