Welcome to Smugglivus 2017! Throughout this month, we will have guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2017, looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2018, and more. Our next Smugglivus guest is one of our favourite writers, Andrea K. Höst, author of the Touchstone Trilogy which we just had the pleasure of releasing a special paperback edition of! “Wow! There’s a palm frond floating in the water!” The smallest things delight in the current generation of games. Footprints! Water you can swim in! The ability to not only hop over tiny walls, but to climb almost anything! We’ve come a long way from Pong. Because I’ve been working on a novel about a virtual reality game, I’ve been over-indulging in games over the past couple of years. I’ll discuss the games later, but first a digression into where games are, and how much further we’d really like them to go. Most of the games I’ve been playing are the big, free-roaming open world games that attract me with their pretty scenery and exhaust me with their 100+ hour full completion times. Great big, amazing sandboxes…that still have as far to go […]