November 2021 Round-Up
Monthly links!
Back in my blogging days, I maintained a monthly “Best Of” column, chronicling the best podcasts, videos, and articles I had consumed in the previous month. That regular feature unceremoniously concluded on February 29, 2020, but now with ARC Worlds up and running, I thought I would use the occasion to revive this feature as:
But first, some housekeeping!
As you may have noticed by now, the Guild of Tokens and Guild of Magic chapters are divided up into different sections that you can separately access on the main page of ARC Worlds. Those sections aren’t just sections, however; they are actually separate sub-newsletters.
Which means, if you are a veteran reader of the series and have already read book 1, you can switch off the Guild of Tokens emails and only get the Guild of Magic emails. And, vice versa, if you don’t want to even glimpse what happens in book 2 before you finish reading book 1, you can switch off the Guild of Magic emails.
To customize which sub-newsletters you receive, simply hit the little down arrow next to your profile picture, hit My Account, and then scroll down to Email notifications. Select or unselect which newsletters you want to receive and voila! You’re good to go.
And now, on to the links!
Teh Internet
Everyone Microsoft Word user’s recurring nightmare
Happy 13th birthday to one of my all-time favorite Penny Arcade strips
This month on “just keep tweeting at your favorite creators and one day they'll respond”:
Look over there, a three-headed monkey!
In honor of one of my favorite video game series of all time, The Secret of Monkey Island, here are two interviews with folks who worked on the series and a bonus retrospective from Jimmy Maher’s Digital Antiquarian. Next month, I’ll select a different video game series and bring you an assortment of interviews and features.
Interview with Larry Ahern, co-project leader on Curse of Monkey Island
Interview with Tami Borowick, writer/programmer on Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
Monkey Island (Or, How Ron Gilbert Made An Adventure Game That Didn’t Suck)
This Month on ARC Worlds
Start reading Guild of Magic (book 2)
In future Board posts, I’ll be including the link to the monthly free chapter of Guild of Magic in this section so you won’t have to go hunting through the archive
ARC Worlds Recommends
If you like Greek mythology combined with the humorous sensibility of Futurama, then I have a graphic novel for you!
Check out my author friend Travis M. Riddle’s new Patreon for behind-the-scenes writing posts, art reveals, and advance chapters!
Looking for more stuff to read?
Janesberry is a directory of fiction and non-fiction newsletters on Substack and beyond. You can filter by genre, subject, and a bunch of other topics.
The Sample is a newsletter recommendation engine that will send you a sampling of newsletters customized to your interests (and some random ones to boot).
That’s a wrap for this month’s ARC Worlds! Let me know in the comments which links you enjoyed, which video game series you want to see featured in the future, and drop your own best reads of the month!