Uno: That's Spanish For One
Welcome to the party, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. This is my first stab at something approximating a fairly professional blog -- I'm failing miserably already, I'm sure -- so bear with me.
For those who may have somehow stumbled across this without knowing (and I honestly have no idea how you'd manage that), my name is Russell Zimmerman -- 'Rusty' when I'm not working or in trouble with my mom -- and I write stuff. Mostly game stuff. I cut my teeth on Warmachine for Privateer Press, I was lead writer on the indie horror-skirmish game Spinespur, I was lead writer on the Kickstarter international mega-smash hit PC game Satellite Reign, and, most of all, I write a ton of stories about elves with robot-arms and stuff, in the fantastically weird cyberpunk-fantasy mash-up, Shadowrun. In my copious unstructured free time, I also ran my very own Kickstarter for a fun little kid-friendly RPG book, Strays, and I've picked up plenty of side gigs over the years (like contributing some fiction to Psionics: The Next Stage in Human Evolution, another Kickstarted RPG).
Lately I've started writing more fiction than game stuff, though; even though it's been "franchise fiction" written in RPG-game worlds, tie-in stuff like the Shadowrun Returns Anthology, my novel Shaken: No Job Too Small, or its prequel piece, Neat.
Which brings me to my next big project; doin' my own thing! Telling my own stories, in my very own world. Or rather, worlds, because sci-fi epics take more than one planet.
I'm currently crowdfunding to kick off my novel series, Over The Stars. There's plenty of preview fiction over there for you to take a peek at (so I'll save the pitch), but if you like my existing work, maybe give it a look, share it with your buddies, and have fun.
In the meantime, I'm off to work on another freelancer gig (work work work, but I'll have a new game company notch in my gunbelt shortly), and I'll bebop back into this blog page when I can think of something else to talk about.
It'll prob'ly be my dogs or a TV show or video game or something. I'm a dork. Again, I have no idea how you'd get here without knowing that, but now you can't say I didn't warn you.
In the meantime, feel free to ask me questions, share comments, or what-have-you!
For those who may have somehow stumbled across this without knowing (and I honestly have no idea how you'd manage that), my name is Russell Zimmerman -- 'Rusty' when I'm not working or in trouble with my mom -- and I write stuff. Mostly game stuff. I cut my teeth on Warmachine for Privateer Press, I was lead writer on the indie horror-skirmish game Spinespur, I was lead writer on the Kickstarter international mega-smash hit PC game Satellite Reign, and, most of all, I write a ton of stories about elves with robot-arms and stuff, in the fantastically weird cyberpunk-fantasy mash-up, Shadowrun. In my copious unstructured free time, I also ran my very own Kickstarter for a fun little kid-friendly RPG book, Strays, and I've picked up plenty of side gigs over the years (like contributing some fiction to Psionics: The Next Stage in Human Evolution, another Kickstarted RPG).
Lately I've started writing more fiction than game stuff, though; even though it's been "franchise fiction" written in RPG-game worlds, tie-in stuff like the Shadowrun Returns Anthology, my novel Shaken: No Job Too Small, or its prequel piece, Neat.
Which brings me to my next big project; doin' my own thing! Telling my own stories, in my very own world. Or rather, worlds, because sci-fi epics take more than one planet.
I'm currently crowdfunding to kick off my novel series, Over The Stars. There's plenty of preview fiction over there for you to take a peek at (so I'll save the pitch), but if you like my existing work, maybe give it a look, share it with your buddies, and have fun.
In the meantime, I'm off to work on another freelancer gig (work work work, but I'll have a new game company notch in my gunbelt shortly), and I'll bebop back into this blog page when I can think of something else to talk about.
It'll prob'ly be my dogs or a TV show or video game or something. I'm a dork. Again, I have no idea how you'd get here without knowing that, but now you can't say I didn't warn you.
In the meantime, feel free to ask me questions, share comments, or what-have-you!
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