My Game Reviewed by Orson Scott Card

My aunt Sheila saw a review in the Deseret News where Orson Scott Card discussed my card game, "Blast from the Past". He said,

"...most Mormon games, if you remove the Mormon references, are not very fun. It's like most Mormons who set out to write a novel. "Mine will be good because it's clean," the writer thinks, or "Mine will be good because it's Mormon." They don't grasp that the story has to be fascinating or it doesn't matter how clean or how Mormon it is -- no one will want to read it. So you can imagine how happy I was to discover that there is now a Mormon trivia game that is actually fun to play. When I was picking up Seek, I noticed a game -- also published by Deseret Book -- called Blast From the Past, a game about LDS Church history."

I take that as such a high compliment!!! I mean wow, I wasn't even trying for that one. I just wanted to get a game out there and see how it would do. He also said,

"Blast From the Past is a Mormon game that can be played again and again. It's fun because of what you learn and how amusing some of the cards are, and also because any player might win,"

which I totally agree with. I've played the game dozens of times now, and I've only won twice!!! Aaaaaagh, I must be really bad at trivia if I can research it, write it, and then still get mixed up on dates.

Anyway, I'm working on a new game now, and I don't think it will get nearly as much praise, but hopefully I will learn more about publishing this time around.

Here's a link to the review, in case you're interested:

http://www.mormontimes.com/mormon_voices/orson_scott_card/?id=9917

I was on LDS Radio!!!

So I added the Mormon Radio widget to my blog, and not just because I was interviewed as part of a panel discussion on the radio program, "Everything Creative", but because I'm excited that there are so many great discussions happening on this station.

I believe there are three reasons I was invited to participate in the discussion on the air: 1) I published a card game through Deseret Book (see photo on the right), 2) I rarely use vulgarity (I've only said 3 swear words in my whole life.), and 3) Its all about connections.

I hear there are already millions of listeners to Mormon radio at radio.lds.org. So since there are three or four of you who read my blog from time to time, now there are a million and four!

Ready, set, sing!

So we got to do a bit of recording for a Church video.  It was a lot of fun.  Photos include Tamilisa Wood, Nicole Carter, Aimee Lewis, and Trevor White.