By Kevin Siembieda

The weather has turned decidedly Autumn. Morning temps are in the forties and fifties. Afternoon highs are lucky to break into the low seventies. There is a crispness to the air and at Palladium Books, the atmosphere is pure excitement.

Ideas are flying and several dynamic titles are in development along with plans to get you those long awaited Beyond the Supernatural™, Rifts Chaos Earth®, Splicers®, Heroes Unlimited™ and Palladium Fantasy RPG® releases finished and in your hands between now and this time next year. In fact, I have tentatively plotted out the schedule of our next 12 releases, starting with Graveyard Earth, Bizantium and the Northern Isles, Robotech®: Expeditionary Force Marines, Chaos Earth® Resurrection, Rifts® Secrets of Atlantis, and Chaos Earth® First Responders, followed by more titles. This list of 12 titles are all finished manuscripts awaiting final edit and rewrites so they can go to press over the next 4-8 months. It does not include titles still being written (like Rifts® Heroes of Humanity), under development (like BTS sourcebooks) or being retooled (like the Splicers® sourcebooks). I am determined to get good manuscripts off the shelf and into your hands as dynamic books.

Other exciting stuff is brewing behind the scenes too, but we don’t want to jinx them by mentioning anything too soon. Suffice it to say that if everything goes well, the next few months of 2014 and all of 2015 are going to be filled with new game product releases and excitement. And that includes the 2015 Palladium Open House, which we hope to make spectacular. Check out the POH update a little further on.

By Kevin Siembieda

Life at Palladium Books remains busy and more than a little crazy. Every day we have an agenda – a list of things to do – and every day there seems to be something that demands our immediate attention and pulls us in different directions. For example, we wanted this Update posted on Thursday. That was not possible. To get one posted today, Friday, it will have to be less comprehensive than we wanted it to be. Fear not, there will be more in the next Weekly Update.

UPDATE: To China and back

Wayne Smith’s trip to China was a productive one. While he was there, the Third Container of product for Robotech® RPG Tactics™ was packed and prepped for shipping. It leaves port this coming Monday (September 15). The Second Container is already at sea and on its way to us. Containers Number Four and Five will shipping soon, maybe even together. Everything seems to be moving along better and faster. Hopefully, these next few containers are not held up at Customs!!!

Wayne enjoyed the trip, learned a good deal about the factories and manufacturing processes, and he wished the visit was longer. I hope Wayne will post a number of photographs here and on the Palladium Facebook Page. Poor Wayne has been dragging and pretty jet-lagged the first part of the week. It wasn't until Thursday and today that he appears to be mostly back to his old self and back up to speed.