Neverending Nights

Taken from PeterDavid.net:

But first the daily Peter David Update: He was able with assistance to get up and sit in a chair where he spent most of the day. He worked with his various physical therapy and occupational therapy personnel on continuing to strengthen his arm and leg. The eye seems to be correcting itself a little but that’s going to be looked at in rehab as to what they can do besides a stylish eye-patch. He also revised an X-Factor script for his editor at Marvel, which I think made him feel good/more normal than he has been feeling.

Remember the waiting game? Well we MIGHT be moving him to his rehab facility but it is not a done deal because they don’t like some of the markers in various pieces of blood work. It may be an aberration and they are going to test him six ways from Sunday this morning to give us a go or no go on his going to rehab today. We have all the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle in place except the Doctor’s OK to go.

Hard to believe that one week ago all this started.

Now HOW YOU CAN HELP

Even though we have health insurance we have co-pays and the like. And since this stroke fell at the end of the year, we have all the new co-pays to deal with (I can honestly see those of you who have had to deal with this nodding your heads). And there are things that the insurance company just won’t cover (more head nodding). So we are at the beginning of what is going to be a very expensive year even though we are only 4 days in.

The most direct way is to buy his books from Crazy 8 Press or from Amazon or Barnes and Noble websites. These are books that he gets the money from directly and the most per book.

His currently Crazy 8 Books are

Pulling Up Stakes Part 1
Pulling Up Stakes Part 2 (Brand new)
This is one novel broken into two pieces. This is the cover blurb
Sick of vampire books? Movies? TV shows? Yeah. So are we. Sick of the entire unlife of vampires? Yeah. So is Vince Hammond. Unfortunately, Vince is in it up to his (wait for it) neck. Because Vince is a young vampire hunter who lives with his vampire hunter mother in an entire community of vampire hunters, who in turn are part of a cult of vampire hunters going back all the way to the French Revolution, which many believe to be an uprising of the poor against the rich but was actually a massive purging of vampires from the French nobility (hence the guillotine)

The Camelot Papers
A powerful ruler who’s considered by many to be simple-minded and vacuous and has serious father issues. A no-nonsense, polarizing woman who favors pants suits and pursues dubious agendas involving social needs. A remarkably magnetic leader of men with a reputation as a skirt-chaser. A scheming, manipulative adviser who is constantly trying to control public perceptions. A man seen as the next, great hope for the people, except there are disputes over his background and many contend he’s not what he appears to be.
George W? Hillary and Bill? Karl Rove? Obama?
Try Arthur Pendragon, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and Galahad.
Whatever you think of the state of today’s politics, The Camelot Papers shows you just how little matters have changed in the past thousand years or so. The Camelot Papers presents a fresh perspective on Arthurian legend by using modern day sensibility and combining it with a classic tale to bring a new insight into iconic characters.

The Hidden Earth Saga of which there are two published and the third is in the works.

Darkness of the Light (book 1 of the Hidden Earth saga)
Height of the Depths (Book 2 of the Hidden Earth saga)

These are science fiction mixed with mythological creatures and the fate of the Universe hangs in the balance. Big epic sweeping books with those great characters that Peter is famous for writing.

There are Print on Demand for all these books if you want a paper copy rather than electronic.

More HOW YOU CAN HELP

If you already have these or can’t purchase them for whatever reason, you can still help us a lot by getting word out all over the Internet about how they can help Peter. I am asking every blogger and people who have access to an audience to spread the word.

The more we sell of these books, the easier it will be for us to pay the bills as they start to pour in.

Buying his other books does help but that is very long term and isn’t much per books but it does help especially the Marvel graphic novels he has written.

I am talking to Glenn about a donate button or something but we don’t have the details worked out and I really want to get the ball rolling on getting this information out while Peter is fresh in everyone’s mind.

We do need your help to help him. He is working very hard at getting back to all that he loves to do and we are trying to ease his mind about whatever we can ease his mind about so he can do it faster.

We are now off to the Hospital to see what the verdict is about his moving today. I will update this when we know what is going on.

I am grateful to everyone who has helped or is going to help Peter.

I remember it clearly. I was in the 4th Grade and my friend (still my friend to this day!), Charles Stevens handed me two comics. It was Avengers #159 and Uncanny X-Men #121. I remember reading them – and I remember opening them up and seeing characters with such wild and vibrant color costumes. All these characters had a wide variety of powers that were just amazing to me. And in both issues, it seemed pretty helpless for the heroes! In Avengers they were fighting someone who could control gravity – and in the X-Men they were fighting a team that was as skilled as the X-Men!

I was definitely hooked.

As the years progressed, my obsession – and collection – exploded in size. Over the years, my Marvel collection expanded from Uncanny X-Men, Avengers, to Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, New Mutants, Web of Spider-Man, Power Man & Iron Fist, Micronauts, ROM, Dazzler, and of course – New Warriors, Night Thrasher, Nova – among so many others. I now own thousands upon thousands of comics now. While, the current state of Marvel Comics isn’t my cup of Joe – I still collect comics. And I continue to go back and fill my collection backwards, to the point that I am now picking up comics that were released by Marvel – before I was even born. Marvel Comics became a staple in my life back then. It helped my imagination grow and expand and enter the world of Super Heroes. All of this is possible, because of people like Stan Lee who was one of the many powerful forces behind the birth of Marvel Comics.

So thank you Stan Lee for the gift you gave me. Your birth has been an endless source of gifts to me. And here I am, with the most that I can do – writing this little bit.

Just passing the word for the Pathfinder MMO Kickstarter…

The end of 2012 is just around the corner, bringing an end to Paizo’s 10th anniversary year! Thanks to all of you, we’ve had an amazing year, and we’re geared up to have an even better 2013! Most of the Paizo elves are off to their homelands for a little holiday R&R with family and friends, but I’m here in the office typing this missive because I have something very cool to tell you about.

As you’re probably all aware, our sister company Goblinworks is running a Kickstarter to help scale up the development of the Pathfinder Online MMO. We are closing in on the 50% funded mark as I type this, and things look good for hitting our goal. I really want to thank everyone who has supported the project, either by pledging or by telling friends about it—or both!

Paizo’s community is very strong, and that includes friends at many excellent third-party publishers that make roleplaying products for use with the Pathfinder RPG. I reached out to those publishers and asked them if they would be willing to donate a PDF or two (or sometimes even more) that we could bundle up and offer as part of the $100 rewards level for Pathfinder Online Kickstarter backers, and the response has been absolutely amazing—including Paizo’s own contribution, it currently includes 42 products from 29 different publishers, with a total retail value of $230.12! Here is a list of what’s currently in our PDF Superpack—publishers are still joining in, so this list could grow even bigger!

Paizo Publishing—Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, Pathfinder Chronicles: Guide to the River Kingdoms
0one Games—Basic Paths: Fangs from the Past
4 Winds Fantasy Gaming—Inkantations: A Sourcebook of Tattoo Magic & Body Art
Abandoned Arts Games—Class Acts: Clerics, Class Acts: Fighters, Class Acts: Rogues, Class Acts: Wizards, Feats of Subterfuge
Above Average Creations—Oracle Curses
Alluria Publishing—Cerulean Seas Campaign Setting
Dragonwing Games—Torn Asunder: Critical Hits
Drop Dead Studios—The Artisan
Ennead Games—Background and Details Kit, Vol. I: Fantasy, Hive Mind Feats
Eridanus Books—Gritter, Veil of Truth: Corporate Solution
Faceless Entertainment—Eat, Drink, and Be Merry #1: The Giggling Gorgon
Fat Goblin Games—Racial Ecologies: Guide to the Feyborn
Four Dollar Dungeons—The Firemaker
Game Room Creations—The Modern Path: Arcana of the Modern World, The Modern Path: Heroes of the Modern World 2.0
K² Games—Classic Encounters Revisited: The Inn
Kobold Press—Zobeck Gazetteer
Lost Spheres Publishing—Transcendent 10—Spells of Synergy: Elemental Exchanges
Louis Porter Jr. Design—Enemies of NeoExodus: Folding Circle
Pelgrane Press—Lorefinder
Purple Duck Games—The Gods of Porphyra, Legendary I: Legendary Blades, Purple Mountain I: Temple of the Locust Lord, Random Encounters Remastered
Raging Swan Press—All that Glimmers, Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands, Scions of Evil
Rising Phoenix Games—Lunatic Labyrinth
Shadowland Press—Secrets of the Synod Horrenda: Conjuration Spells
Solace Games—Undead Evolution Series: Zombies
Thor’s Gate—Book of the Summoner
Tilquinith’s Gaming Tools—Creature Stat Cards
Tricky Owlbear Publishing—Learning Curve: Apprentice-Level Characters
Zaboom Press—Unusual Races: The Del’shy
Zombie Orpheus Entertainment—The Mask of Death
Zombie Sky Press—The Faerie Ring: Along the Twisting Way Prelude

This generous PDF Superpack now makes the $100 Crowdforger level on the Pathfinder Online Kickstarter one of the best deals in gaming! Here’s what you currently get for your $100 pledge:

• Early access to the Pathfinder Online MMO
• Four months of prepaid Pathfinder Online subscription time
• The 128-page Emerald Spire Superdungeon PDF, with dungeon levels by Keith Baker, Rich Baker, Wolfgang Baur, Jason Bulmahn, Ed Greenwood, James Jacobs, Frank Mentzer, Erik Mona, Mark Rein•Hagen, F. Wesley Schneider, Lisa Stevens, and James Sutter.
• The Emerald Spire Dungeons Flip-Mat Multipack PDF, featuring 12 different full-size minis-scale maps of the dungeons
• The digital soundtrack to the finished Pathfinder Online MMO
• A 32-page behind-the-scenes Pathfinder Online PDF
• The Pathfinder Tales novel Crusader Road, by Rich Baker, in PDF and ePub formats
• Nine WizKids Pathfinder Battles prepainted miniatures, available for the first time in this Kickstarter
• 30 unique “Daily Deal” in-game digital items for Pathfinder Online that will be available nowhere else
• A New Player Pack of healing potions, scrolls, weapon enchants, maps and a bag of holding
• An Alliance Pack that gives you benefits from allying yourself with one of the NPC factions in the game
• The PDF Superpack of 42 RPG products

Conservatively, the combined worth of these items is over $400 at retail, and you can lock them in for a $100 pledge. Even if you never play the MMO, you will get so much value in tabletop RPG goodness that you are essentially getting the MMO for free.

But we are hoping that you will use your early access to the Pathfinder Online MMO to take part in the crowdforging process, where we will be working with you to create an MMO that will be distinctly Pathfinder and will break new ground in the MMO field. I truly believe that once you have seen what we are creating for Pathfinder Online, you will feel that a pledge to this Kickstarter will be well worth it.

And the package of items you get for the $100 Crowdforger level will only get bigger as we move towards the end of the Kickstarter. If we exceed our funding goal, we will be adding more levels to the Emerald Spire Superdungeon and creating more Flip-Mats for those levels, and we will add more Pathfinder Battles miniatures. There is no limit to how big these two rewards can get. We’ll probably get a few additions to the PDF Superpack, and we have other surprises in the works that we’ll be announcing soon.

In the spirit of the holiday season, I’m making this deal too good to pass up! Help us make Pathfinder Online bigger, better, and faster, and in turn, we will give you over four times that value in Pathfinder products for your tabletop and for the MMO.

From all of us at Paizo, happy holidays—here’s looking forward to an adventurous new year!

Lisa Stevens
CEO, Paizo Publishing, LLC
COO, Goblinworks, Inc.