Hot Topic previously had a deal to buy ThinkGeek for $122 million last week but GameStop has beat that purchase price with a $140 million offer. Hot Topic will be paid a termination fee by GameStop for breaking their deal with ThinkGeek, so everyone gets to make some money.
GameStop has had a problem getting people into their stores since the online game buying/renting market has become so popular. Hopefully this expansion into the geek gear market will get people into their doors.
Also, Pirateaba, author of the Wandering Inn series has a Kickstarter for a connected graphic novel for that story univers. Already funded at $38K.
Just a quick reminder that the graphic novel Kickstarter project for Tao Wong’s System Apocalypse is ending in a few days.
Mountaindale Press has announced that they will be at Dragon Con. Not only that, but they’ll be hosting a special meet and greet event.
Johnathan Brooks, author of a number of LitRPG Dungeon Core stories, has been working with a game development company to create a new game. Based on his Dungeon Crafting series
Tao Wong, Jay Boyce, Charles Dean, and Apollos Thorne talk about writing LitRPG/ Gamelit for an online panel for BrambleCon - The Intersection of Writing and Gaming
I wanted to announce that several LitRPG authors will be attending the Fantasy Book Fest APRIL 17-19, 2020 in Anaheim, CA. The schedule of authors and events is still being formed but it already includes writer and reader panels, including a LitRPG panel. LitRPG Authors attending include: James A. Hunter, Apollos Thorne, Domino Finn, and R.A. Mejia
MSE and Space Knight Indigogo campaign
Update: campain reached its $15,000 minimum in less than 24 hours. It's fully funded for ebooks, audiobook, and print copies. Though there are some stretch goals.
The campaign also has a different set of rewards so that those who just want an ebook copy can get theirs on MSE's website sooner.
Don’t forget that the GameLit Society is still doing their annual charity drive on GoFundMe for Shriners Hospital for Children. So far they’ve raised $1,000 of their $3,000 goal. Go donate if you want to give to a good cause.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/gamelit-society-philanthropy-pt-3
Soundbooth Theater had a very entertaining Facebook Live Stream celebrating the end of the year. They had on a ton of guests including some of your favorite LitRPG narrators and authors. Go check it out.
Mountaindale Press did a Facebook Live! interview with some of their authors to celebrate their one year anniversary as a publishing company.
Magic Dome Books, publishers of many of your favorite Russian LitRPG titles, did an author interview with Michael R. Miller the author of Battle Spire.
Michael Scott Earle has launched the kickstarter to fund the next novel he is publishing. It only took hours to reach the initial $15K goal to produce an ebook, audiobook, and signed physical copies of the whole series. As is, it has over $44K in support for the project, showing that MSE does not need Amazon to make money. The project has become one of the 'most backed' fiction projects on the platform. Although the $1,000 pledge has been snagged, there is still the $5,500 one that will get you a weekend to hangout with MSE.
The good folks at Soundbooth Theater, the narrators for the hit LitRPG series Dungeon Crawler Carl, have released a stand alone song in the voice of Princess Donut from the same series.