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Zubby Newsletter #85: Roll For Initiative
Stacy and I are in Madison, Wisconsin for Gamehole Con, gaming up a storm and celebrating 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons. We flew into Chicago, got our…
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Zubby Newsletter #84: More Pages, More Everything!
More Pages
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Zubby Newsletter #83: It’s Already October
Conan the Barbarian #15 arrived in stores last week, Conan: Battle of the Black Stone #2 this week.
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September 2024

Zubby Newsletter #82: The Worst Fantasy Novel Ever?
I’ve been posting on social media about rereading the original Conan stories and, with an eye on purple prose, a well-meaning fan pointed me toward an…
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Zubby Newsletter #81: Crossing The Gap
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me.
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Zubby Newsletter #80: Word Balloons
It’s always such a pleasure chatting with John Siuntres on the Word Balloon podcast, and it’s been over three years since we last talked, so there was…
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Zubby Newsletter #79: A Cast Stone Makes Many Ripples
Conan: Battle of the Black Stone #1 has arrived in comic shops today, kicking off a flurry of promotion as a cast of Robert E.
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August 2024

Zubby Newsletter #78: Cimmerian September
I wouldn’t normally send out two newsletters in one week, but there is so much going on and a few time-sensitive deadlines that I needed to double up…
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Zubby Newsletter #77: Expo Experienced
Fan Expo Canada 2024 was a complete whirlwind.
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Zubby Newsletter #76: Staying Sharp
That’s a full-size Atlantean Sword sent to me by Heroic Signatures, the rights holders of Conan the Barbarian…It was in my new contract.
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Zubby Newsletter #75: Castles & Crusaders
Health Update: Thank you to all the people who reached out about my previous newsletter where I talked about catching Covid and missing Gen Con.
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Zubby Newsletter #74: Confluence of Events
San Diego Comic-Con went so well, with almost no downside at all, and I joked with Stacy that it meant Gen Con would be a disaster…
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