Author: Alex Irvine
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Avengers Alliance Is One Year Old!
Pretty excited to celebrate this birthday. I’ve actually been working on the game since November of 2010, but it’s been live for a year. I’m writing this post at the same table in the same coffee shop (Coffee by Design on Congress Street in Portland, Maine) where I waited for the game to go live…
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Freelancer’s Anxiety Formula
X is the optimal amount of time (expressed as hours per week) committed to pitching new projects.Y is the amount of time committed to existing contracted projects.A is time spent with family, friends, and daily household activities.B is sleep. Z is the amount of time reserved for projects of no current financial value, or Z…
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Places I Used to Write, and Sometimes Still Do
Thinking of all kinds of places I used to write, in loose and sometimes overlapping order… Drake’s and Brown Jug and Monkey Bar and Amer’s and Espresso Royale and Continental Diner and Bill’s Coffee Cup (Ann Arbor) Penny Lane and Trident and Aristocrat Diner and Sundown Saloon (Boulder) Dom Bakeries and Mudd House and Ugly…
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Coast City Comic-Con Schedule
The big show is this weekend! If you’re going to be there, here’s where you’ll find me: Saturday 11am — The Good (and Bad) Old Days: Jeff Kline, who’s produced shows like Jackie Chan Adventures, and G.I. Joe: Renegades, joins Alex Irvine (Avengers Alliance, Daredevil Noir) and Coast City’s own Tristan Gallagher to talk about…
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Now You Can Read Mare Ultima
Mare Ultima, my most recent novella from PS Publishing, is out! If you’re a reader of epic fantasy or a reader of books that poke under the tropes of epic fantasy to see what’s there, this is both. So you won’t want to miss it. If you’ve read “Wizard’s Six” or “Dragon’s Teeth” in F&SF, you’ve…
Crooked House Fictions 