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  Interview with Abigail Linhardt Author of Season of the Runner and Goddess Among Us   Please tell me a little about your current work in progress. I have two currently. One is the third instalment to my Witcher-esque dark fantasy series Season of the Runer . This series is my primary love interest right now and I get excited to work on it every day. The series follows two main characters from the middle-eastern-inspired country of Al’Myrah as they hunt monsters for a living and accidently incur the wrath of a necromancer and a sorcerer, leading to larger conflicts that they’d rather not be a part of.   My second WIP, called Prince of MidWest, is a dip into YA and I haven’t quite placed the genre. It’s wild west-ish, steampunk, alternate history, and there’s also a vampire. So I’m not sure where it belongs. It’s inspired by The Count of Monte Cristo so there’s lots of revenge, plotting, and it all starts with a good old fashioned jailbreak. It’s low magic as well,...

   "I liked that. I'm not gonna lie. That was pretty fun." That was the verdict of one of Les Freres Corses after we played the Rescue from the Hangman's Noose scenario from my skirmish game. Of course he had a great time. What's not fun about King's Musketeers and Cardinal's Guards exchanging shots with flintlock pistols, rushing through the clouds of acrid smoke to trade cross words, cross swords, and wound, wound, wound, and slay the enemy? He fired pistols, threw knives, stabbed, slashed, and swashbuckled his team to victory. Two of his musketeers made running leaps to the scaffold just in time to stop the hangman from completing the execution. They overcame superior numbers by superior ability to slay four guardsmen and send the wounded fifth running with his bloody tabard between his legs. For the record, it looked nothing like the picture above, or this picture below:  I'm going to label the venture a success, even though I was running the losi...

  Fun Fact: Fun Times at Fort Stanwyx--Oriskany The British plan for the invasion of 1777 included not only Burgoyne's thrust from the north down to the Hudson River and to Albany--which ended badly at Saratoga--and an advance by Howe from New York to Albany, but also a conquest of the Mohawk Valley by troops under Barry St. Leger. Controlling the Mohawk Valley and the Hudson River Valley would deny the patriot armies necessary both food and transportation routes. Burgoyne had Lieutenant Colonel St. Leger temporarily promoted to the rank of brigadier general to lead the attack from the west.  Although St. Leger had experience in the French and Indian wars, he had never commanded Indian auxiliaries--which made up a sizeable portion of his invasion force--about a thousand Indians. Mohawk leader Thayendanegea, Joseph Brant, had already refused overtures from a former friend and patriot leader, General Nicholas Herkimer, to join the patriots. In fact, Herkimer tried to have Brant ...