An English-Born Author in Japan
I have just published a new RPG work. Glosses and Commentaries is a short supplement for Ars Magica Definitive Edition, released under the Ars Magica Open License. It is available for purchase on DriveThruRPG and on Patreon. In the medieval period, certain authors and texts were regarded as authorities on a particular subject (Aristotle, in [ ]
My first professional publication for Ars Magica came out in 1993, in White Wolf Magazine. Things rather grew from there, and I spent over a decade as the Line Developer. When I retired from that position, I ended up taking a break for a few years, but now I m back. First, I prepared the text [ ]
My novel, Tamao, has been released. It is an urban fantasy novel, set in Kawasaki, Japan, drawing heavily on Shinto practice and mythology. It is available for purchase on Amazon, Gumroad, and DriveThruFiction
I am redesigning the site to make use of the latest WordPress technology, and to better serve the role I want it to play at the moment. This will probably break things a bit, even though I have done the ground work on an offline copy. I hope to have everything up and running properly [ ]
Can immigrants to Japan ever be accepted as Japanese? If you read the English-language internet on the topic, you will find a lot of people saying that it is impossible. That s not what I ve found. A few weeks ago, I was at a rare in-office meeting at one of the groups I work with. The [ ]
Since I have been asked to do sensitivity/cultural reads a couple of times now, it seems sensible to set out what I think that involves, what I can (and can t) do, and what I think it should cost. What It Involves I will not do your research for you. I expect to read a manuscript [ ]
A while back, I was looking through some archived files on my computer, and found a very old page for my website listing updates. It started with an update entry for 25th September 1995, for the Latin translations of the names of the Animal spells in Ars Magica Third Edition. The pages were on Geocities [ ]