August best-sellers for NUELOW Games

Some of you may be aware that I've revived my little online publishing company. I did this, because I remain woefully under-employed and I might as well do SOMETHING with my time when not trying to line up work. (And, hey, if you have REAL work out there for a game designer/writer, I am available almost immediately!)

Here's a list of the best-selling NUELOW Games titles for the month of August. While we're not setting the world on fire, we're doing about what one can expect for an online publishing outfit with no star-power and no marketing budget. In other words, we're selling dozens of copies!

Best-selling NUELOW Games titles for August 2011

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1. Names in the Black Book by Robert E. Howard (horror fiction anthology)

2. From Dark Corners Vo1. 1 by Various (horror fiction anthology)

3. Rolf!: Santa vs. Santos vs. Jesus by Steve Miller and L.L. Hundal (game supplement)

4. The Deadly Sword of Cormac by Robert E. Howard (historical fiction anthology)

5. Rolf!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters by L.L. Hundal and Steve Miller (core game rulebook)

If you've purchased any of our offerings, I thank you for your support. The earnings from your purchase have, quite literally, gone to keep my cats fed and my car running.

If you haven't tried any of our offerings, I invite you to do so.

If you are a fan of quality fiction, and would like something that reads well on your iPad, I recommend checking out our fiction offerings. The Robert E. Howard books are full of action and/or horror, while the John Kendrick Bangs titles are full of wry humor.

If you play traditional roleplaying games--the kind that require dice and paper and actually spending time in the same room with your friends--and have a sense of humor about your play-style, the ROLF! game is something to check out. The Larry Elmore illos in the core game and most of the supplements might even fill you with nostalgia for the good old days!

For more information and regular updates on NUELOW Games, you can visit the "company blog" by clicking here.

There is a future in feces!

Jennifer Hale was quoted as saying, "There is a future in feces."

While that might lead one to think she's a spokesperson for Warner Bros. or some other major media company, Ms. Hale actually works for the Denver Zoo and she was discussion panda poop:

Panda Poop Could By Key To Producing Biofuels « CBS Denver: "The waste of one of the world’s most endangered animals may hold the key to producing biofuels. The potency of the discovery had scientists talking about it at a major chemistry conference in Denver on Monday."

Sure would be nice if there's something to this crap!

Everything is better with Michael Bolton?

I wouldn't really describe myself as a fan of either Michael Bolton or Lady Gaga (in fact, I would describe myself as NOT a fan of the latter), but the combo of the two work really nicely in this soft little pop tune/love song, "Murder My Heart."

Of course, I doubt Bolton will ever top his team up with Lonely Island!

Tectonic Tuesday: Who to blame?!

At roughly 1:55pm Eastern Time, an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 hit the East Coast of the United States of America, with an epicenter in Virginia. Damage appears to have been light to non-existence, but airports have been closed and hysterical politicians have been evacuated from buildings throughout Washington, D.C.

But, as every intelligent and wise person knows, earthquakes are not caused by geological forces, but by immodest women.

This was revealed by the great latter-day Prophet of Allah, Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi--a man so wise and great that he should be second only in status to Mohammed and Jesus Christ--when in 2010 he told the world that: 'Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes."

I conducted careful research that proved the Great Holy Man right with the Tectonic Tuesday series on this very blog.

On that note, here are some thoughts on which dangerous women may have caused today's earthquake, turning this day into a TRUE Tectonic Tuesday!

Angie Harmon
Is there anything more immodest than an actress portraying a tough, independent, intelligent woman in a television series? Probably not... and since she's done it on multiple series (most recently on "Rizzoli and Isles"), she might be the cause of today's quake.

The fact she's a vocal Republican only confirms her possible culpability.

Milla Jovovich
Already profiled as part of the Tectonic Tuesday series, there's a preview featuring her running in movie theaters (promoting the new "The Three Muskateers" movie) and it was recently announced that she will be back as Alice in the fifth Resident Evil movie. Increased Google searches of pictures for her (including 211 hits here, brought in by the search phrase "Milla Jovovich naked") may have brought the world to the brink of disaster!

Rose McGowan
Emancipated from her parents as a teenager, McGowan lacks respect for her elders. She also has a habit of appearing in films without wearing much in the way of clothes, like the latest "Conan the Barbarian" movie. With her flaunting her immodest ways on thousands of movie screens across the nation and the world, she could be the cause of quake.

Rachel Nichols
In recent years, she's appeared in form-fitting outfits in several wide-release movies, and she, like McGowan, is featured in scant clothing in the new "Conan the Barbarian" movie. Even worse, she has an on-screen sex scene with Jason Momoa. She is probably more culpable in causing this earthquake than McGowan, but it is very likely that the combination of both of them displaying their immodest ways in a single movie is what made the earth of the Eastern Seaboard tremble today.


An Alternate Theory
As the quake happened, President Barack Obama was playing golf, enjoying yet another of his many vacations. Given that Obama is, according to some sources, a Chosen One--second only to Mohammed and Jesus Christ--perhaps God made the earth move so that Obama's golf ball would roll across the green into the hole, gaining him a Hole-In-One?

N is for Ninja, and that's good enough for me! (Still.)

N is for Ninja. N is for November. And while we're at it, N is also for Nine.

Last year, I declared November 1 - 9 as the Nine Days of the Ninja. Well, since November 1 - 9 only comes around once a year, I'm doing it again. I will once again be posting reviews and other Ninja-related items across my various blogs--and will even be releasing a Ninja supplement for "ROLF!: The Rollplaying Game of Big Dumb Fighters" through NUELOW Games--in celebration of the Nine Days of the Ninja.

Since playing with myself is not as fun as it might sound when there are Ninjas involved, I am inviting the rest of the blogging world to join with me in a celebration of the world's best-known secretive assassins. Maybe we can make a real blogathon out of this!

Post something Ninja-related to your blogs during the Nine Days of the Ninja. Send the link to me at stevemillermail@gmail.com, and I will list in in a Nine Days of the Ninja index post (The Ninjex?). Anything is fair game. Reviews of movies, cartoons/anime, and comics featuring Ninja and/or posts featuring information about the creators of such stuff, or just pictures of Ninja doing their thing--flipping out and killing things--are acceptable subjects. If you have existing posts, you can send me the links ahead of time, and I will link to the best of those as well.

Click here to see the After-Action Report for last year's Nine Days of the Ninja.

If you want to take part, or just want to promote Nine Days of the Ninja, you can use this logo.

Link back to this post, because it will eventually become the "Ninjex" of the 2011 Nine Days of the Ninja. And let me know if you do want to participate. I will link to your blog and let the world know.

I will be doing reminder posts and further plugs over the next few weeks, because when the monsters of October go away, the Ninja come out to play!


Or ARE They?!

Jimmy Sangster dead at 83

Screenwriter Jimmy Sangster, who penned some of the greatest gothic horror and suspense films from Hammer Films during the 1950s and 1960s died today, August 19.

Sangster began his career as an an assistant director and production manager and only reluctantly took up the task of writing the script for "Horror of Dracula" when the production ran into trouble. He went on from there to write dozens of more scripts for Hammer Films in just about every genre the studio made movies in, and even did some directing. During the 1970s, Sangster worked in Hollywood, writing some of the most celebrated episodes of "Wonder Woman," "Night Stalker," and "The Six Million Dollar Man."

Sangster died at his home in London from an as-of-yet undetailed cause.

Coming Soon: Talk Like a Pirate Day!

On Monday September 19, it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day. By way of a warm-up, here's a sampling of Scottish Pirate Metal Rock.

No, I did not make that up. That is how Alestorm describes themselves, and that is what they sound like. It's fun stuff. Watch the video. (It was made to promote Alestorm's latest album "Black Sails at Midnight.)