The next book in the Little Fears Nightmare Edition line is now available for pre-order! Book 2: Among the Missing looks at missing kids, the monsters who hunt them, the good guys they can turn to, and what life is like for those who live in the fringes between our reality and the world of lost children.

Click here for more information on what’s coming in Book 2: Among the Missing.

Book 2: Among the Missing will be released in PDF on May 25th (National Missing Children’s Day) and will be released in print soon after (about three weeks). 20% of all orders throughout April will go to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children*.

(May 12th Update)
THE PRE-ORDER IS OVER!
Huge thanks to everyone who pre-ordered the book! For those who missed the pre-order, you can still order the print, PDF, or combo bundle of Book 2: Among the Missing using the buttons below:

Order the Print Book + the PDF!
Order the print book plus the PDF and receive your download code on May 25th and your physical book in early June for just $30 (+ s/h).

Order the Print Book!
Order the print book and receive it in early June for just $20 (+ s/h).

Order the PDF!
PDF orders will be processed through DriveThruRPG and RPGNow. You will be able to grab the PDF for immediate download once it becomes available on May 25th for just $10.

If you plan to pre-order both Book 2 and Happy Birthday Little Fears:
You can place your pre-order for Book 2: Among the Missing now and you can combine shipping costs with Happy Birthday Little Fears when it goes on pre-order. (In that case, your physical copy of Book 2 will not ship until Happy Birthday Little Fears ships.)

*I will sum the sale price of all pre-orders received from the beginning of the pre-orders on April 1st through midnight April 30th (CDT) and contribute 20% of the total to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children through their online donation system.

I had a good run of three Campfire Tales released in October, November, and December but I have hit a bit of a snag this year. All my work in January was pushed back due to illness and I’m still digging myself out of it. I added a last-minute paying gig in January as well that shoved everything another week and am currently finishing up a BIG (and Little Fears-related!) project that needs my full attention.

Campfire Tales #4: Old Man Winter is halfway done. My hope is to get it out next Friday. I’m aiming for that. Then the rest of February is taken up with work for other people. March though, well, I have plans for March. But those plans hinge on me getting through all this other writing so I have to get back to it.

I appreciate your patience and support in this. I’m very fortunate that my attention needs to be put on good gigs than bad news so I don’t curse it.

January got off to a rough start, production-wise, which pushed me a bit off schedule so Campfire Tales #4 won’t see release until later in the month (I hope to hit next week but won’t guarantee). Until then though, here’s a peek at the cover for the next installment, a tale called Old Man Winter.

As with the previous Campfire Tales, #4 features an illustration by the amazing Veronica V. Jones. If you like the stuff she does for Little Fears Nightmare Edition, check out VVJones.com and Moonshines.com for more!

I’ll update everyone when it’s available, of course. Enjoy!

I’ll post more information as it comes out, and try to give you whatever inside scoop I can, but since the production company announced it, here’s some of the bigger Little Fears news for 2011:

Reactor 88 Studios is producing a Little Fears movie set to start filming within the next year.

Reactor 88 are the folks behind the upcoming InSpectres and Brave New World films. I’ve been working with producer/director Darren Orange every step, and he and his team get what I want to do with the film. I hope you all dig it.

Work continues on new Little Fears products and I have some big surprises lined up for next year. I’ll stay mum until January or February or so but I think the big one will surprise a lot of you. But no more—let’s save something for the winter season.

And speaking of winter, we have the first winter-themed entry in the Campfire Tales series with #3: The Longest Night of Your Life. It should be ready next week provided there are no hiccups. For those interested, here’s the cover:

Other irons are in the Little Fears fire as well but I can’t speak of them just yet. As soon as I can though you’ll be the first to know.

As much as I liked the sparse and stark aesthetic of the first Campfire Tales release, it would be hard to sustain the look beyond a single release. Folks would likely have a hard time distinguishing one Campfire Tales from another judging from the thumbnail–and that doesn’t exactly do me a lot of good, does it?

So I’ve decided to alter the look of the Campfire Tales releases, starting with the first one. The new look incorporates Veronica V. Jones fantastic interior art and brings over the trade dress from the print books to help build a stronger identity and more cohesive look for all Little Fears Nightmare Edition releases.

The content of Campfire Tales #1 remains exactly the same. Only the first page has changed.

Here’s what the line will look like from this point on, including a look at the cover of Campfire Tales #2: The Fall Harvest.

So what do you think?

You were a normal kid once with a normal life and a normal family.
Then things changed. There was a moment when your life
took a sudden turn and you stopped being a normal kid.
You became a headline, a statistic,
a picture on the grocery store window.
A warning for other children.

Maybe you were taken, stolen by a monster,
or maybe you simply disappeared.

Whatever happened, at that moment,
you became one of the missing.

Every child has a story.

What’s yours?

In development.

Little Fears Nightmare Edition, the reboot of my very first roleplaying game, officially released one year ago today. I’m proud of the new game and am happy it’s done as well as it has. I wasn’t expecting anyone to care that I’d revamped a nine-year old game about kids fighting monsters so when you all showed, I was humbled by the response. You’ve supported me and cheered for me all along the way, and I appreciate everything you’ve done for me.

Thing is, though, I’ve let you down. I had big plans for Nightmare Edition, plans that never happened. Some of it was because I had landed some (very much needed and appreciated) paying work that took my attention and my time and some of it was because, well, it’s hard to put into words.

But I hope to make good on some promises I made last year, even if not exactly in the way I promised. I don’t expect anyone to take this on faith; I need to earn your trust again. I hope you’ll give me the chance.

Happy birthday, Nightmare Edition. Now make a wish.

I’d planned on changing and updating the look of the site in the near future but unforeseen circumstances pushed that up the calendar a bit. Everything appears to be working but if you find something strange, missing, or possessed by monsters, email me and let me know, okay?