The History Book & The RPG Industry

So I wrote last week that the RPG History Book wasn't going well. As some of you know, my original contract for it fell apart in July, after six months of feverish working toward that deadline. I'd since been talking with a second company that was interested in publishing it; although they remain interested in the book, they ultimately decided last week that it didn't work with their current publication plans--at least not for now.

So the book is thoroughly in limbo. I'm pretty frustrated over six months of very hard work currently being for naught. I have some ideas for other publishers I could talk too, but for the moment I'm not doing so.

I'm actually pretty frustrated with writing for the RPG industry entirely at the moment. Over the last year I wrote something like 350,000 words of content, and of that only the smallest and simplest of those projects, the Elf book for Mongoose's RQ, seems like it's going to get printed anytime soon.

When life got filled with wife, cats, and jobs that paid enough to get by on I stopped writing RPG material for 7 or 8 years, except for occasional magazine articles. This type of frustration reminds me that there are other reasons too.