MadDrJeffe interviews author Candice Ransom & editor Stacy Whitman of Mirrorstone Books as they discuss the young reader's book series "Time Spies" at the American Librarian Association's Convention.

A lot of Wizkids recent success has come from their Pirates CSG game, with some 20 million units sold in just 3 years, which is heavily inspired by Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean in not just feel but look so it comes as a bit of a surprise to find that Wizkids has just licensed Pirates of the Caribbean for a new game (one that hopefully is compatible with their Pirates game) since the Pirates CSG has done so well --why pay someone for a license that's easy to knock-off?

ICv2 reported Wizard of the Coast's early 2008 D&D and Starwars products yesterday and one can help but fell a little underwheilmd, aside from an adventure,Keep on the Shadowfell we're getting Worlds and Monsters which is a behind the scenese look at creating D&D products and Eberron Survival Guide which is a coloring book picture book that shows off various locals of the Ebberon world. Ebberon is also getting City of Stormreach which if like Sharn could be a very good suppliment, however if it turns out to be like Cityscape, which was just a pale rip-off of Sharn you can pass this one up.

For a while now several of us at TWG have been wanting to run a gaming blog, a place to place news, announcements and short editorials about the gaming industry that don't fit as regular articles so we're pleased to announce the Big Ol' Bag O' Dice Blog (or BOBODBLOG for those of you with a sweet spot for acronyms) which will --hopefully--be supplying daily content for you.

Listen to editor Stacy Whitman and author Tiffany Trent talk about the upcoming book Hallowmere: In the Serpent's Coils from Wizards of the Coast.