All set up to film this month's Fancy Improv show! Beautiful night to be outside taking in some comedy.

When parking downtown, be sure to park near the Parking Violation Bureau. You know, just in case. Or as @mscharff.bsky.social put it: "Feels like a trap."

We're releasing one chapter a week of our upcoming fantasy novel, tentatively titled "Riptide" right here. First drafts, so you're seeing them hot off the keyboard! Also a whole bunch of other industry updates and stories available even at the free tier. Join us! www.patreon.com/cw/cinevore

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So, who else has big exciting plans for tonight? I was thinking about drinking this whole thing and then going out to the opera, or at least maybe seeing a movie. Don't see why any of that would be interrupted! 😅 #40slife #iykyk

New healthcare provider, who dis? Best response came from Lauren's brother: "Sounds like a World War One villain. Kaiser Permanente: the only Spaniard working for the Germans."

A reader recently finished our fantasy novel Dark & Zarus and they loved our story about a phoenix so much they bought us this 🐦‍🔥! Isn't it cool? 😍 Not quite as cool as the feeling when your book connects with somebody unexpected. But almost as cool!

Cool cloud cover this morning! Looking south down Woodman towards Ventura Blvd in Studio City/Sherman Oaks.

Our panel at San Diego Comic Con is tomorrow (Thursday) at 12:30 in room 10! We'll be talking about adapting works across media. The line will be shorter than Hall H. And we'll even sign stuff! @laurencipollo.bsky.social @jennipowell.bsky.social @ryanomega.bsky.social @joebarrette.bsky.social

Hey! Look what we found at Barnes & Noble Burbank! First time ever having a book we've written officially on a store shelf and not just online. We decided to sign it and leave some bookmarks inside for the lucky person who decides to pick it up. Maybe you? 👀

Heard a rumor our fantasy book was available at the Barnes & Noble in Burbank. Time for a field trip to find out! 😎

So I moved my mouth slightly yesterday, and pulled a jaw muscle or something?? Throbbing pain for about a minute. Eventually eased to an ache but felt like my teeth were misaligned. Eating dinner was uncomfortable. This morning... fine! So what's the dumbest old person way you've hurt yourself??

Thursday morning at Origins Game Fair in Columbus, OH! I get to talk about making games AND writing/pitching scripts today, so that's pretty much my happy place.

Book release/reading/signing yesterday at Book Carnival in Tustin for the new horror anthology Blood Fiction v.4 curated and edited by Mark Sevi.

Shoutout to the Podracer players! @jennipowell.bsky.social & @laurencipollo.bsky.social are still there. @cinevore.bsky.social started there, but was forced to become a Stormtrooper. @mscharff.bsky.social's character died, and @jacksonlanzing.bsky.social joined late. And Scott Ross isn't on here.

Excited to have been able to throw a little support to the remake of one of my favorite games! If you've never played a Tex Murphy game, check them out (they're on steam) And then check out this campaign! Update #7: A support video from two super fans of Tex www.kickstarter.com/projects/tex...

Update 7: A support video from two super fans of Tex · Tex Murphy: Killing Moon Rising

We got a support video from two incredible superfans: Hollywood screenwriters with an impressive body of work across books and television, including the beloved Mystery Science Theater 3000. Since thi...

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Also the plot of 1994 video game Under A Killing Moon, FWIW.

Tom Coates@tomcoates.bsky.social · 5mo ago

You guys know that Elysium movie with Matt Damon? The one where all the rich live on a beautiful orbiting space station and leave everyone else rotting on the surface of a collapsing planet Earth? Pretty sure that’s now actively the goal of our ultra-rich and they’ll do anything to achieve it.

@laurencipollo.bsky.social and I wrote on this game! It also happens to be the expansion to our favorite new deckbuilder. And the Kickstarter for it is now live! Chemical Overload: Entropy - Alchemy Tableau & Deckbuilder by Rebirth Games on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/reb...

Chemical Overload: Entropy - Alchemy Tableau & Deckbuilder

Toxins rise and potions get personal, in this all new full size expansion to the hit deck builder/tableau builder - Chemical Overload!

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OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

Some shots of our booth at AnaCon this past weekend! We met so many cool people and got to hear all their stories about what draws them to reading, and their favorite books. It was also wonderful to hear how many people wanted Dark & Zarus specifically because it had a real human cover artist! 🥳

So cool to see people excited about our books! 🥹

@penguinaph.bsky.social · 6mo ago

however there is some good personal news inbetween my brain screaming and my body crying out for rest ONE OF MY KICKSTARTER'S ARRIVED!!! THANK YOU @cinevore.bsky.social AND LAUREN! YOU GUYS ROCK! EVERYONE GO BUY MATT AND LAUREN'S BOOKS!

Tomorrow, Saturday, May 16th: We'll be signing books and launching our first fantasy novel at the Anaheim Central Library for AnaCon! Be one of the first to snag a copy of Dark & Zarus! We'll also have copies of the complete Parallax trilogy as well. 🥳🚀🦾🐉📚 Come say hi! @laurencipollo.bsky.social

Ran a session of Cinevore Games' not-yet-released TTRPG Authors of Fate with @laurencipollo.bsky.social and the crew at Super Geeked Up! Join us on a hilarious journey across space and time as they try to rescue Shakespeare from... well, you'll just have to watch. www.youtube.com/live/cqjn_F2...

Authors of Fate RPG Actual Play with the Game Creators!

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322% funded! Our first fantasy book is becoming a reality! Thank you all so much, we can't wait to bring you all this story. First to our backers with all the special bonuses they've unlocked, and then eventually to conventions and bookstores near you(?).

New Stretch Goal achieved! And next Stretch Goal unlocked! Every backer will now receive an original piece of in-world character art along with all the other perks! Now, who wants a Secret Evil Map in the back of their book?? Check out the KS page for more info www.kickstarter.com/projects/cip...

STRETCH GOAL THREE LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Three days left! Journey into a world of psychic undead, sketchy alchemists, mysterious automata, and a world on the edge of ruin, where all hope rests on a band of outcasts raising a dormant Phoenix Back soon or miss out on discounted books and digital rewards! kickstarter.com/projects/cip...

We're in our last week on Kickstarter!! We've done a ton so far but there's so much more we could do. Help us hit our next stretch goals and get the coolest book possible! Ebook starts at $8. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cip...

My home for the week, in Louisville Kentucky. And my partners from the Cinevore Games team just arrived! We have three prototypes with us and we're on two different panels today, along with a batch of meetings with publishers. Time to find some partners and make some games! #gamaexpo2026

@laurencipollo.bsky.social and I will be on one of our favorite podcasts, Super Geeked Up, tonight at 9ET/6PT. Join us for geeky games and conversation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgy2...

Super Geeked Up - Best Bookworms, Scream 7, Super Movie Pitch, Matt Conant and Lauren Cipollo!

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