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July 17, 2026 · 1:00 pm

GenCon Schedule and our Infernal Tour Itinerary

We’re taking our game on the road! You in the Midwest? You gamin’?

Gen Con Schedule

C. S. E. Cooney

Thursday July 30, 11 AM
Ballroom 4
Reading Your Work Aloud
Moderator: Mary Robinette Kowal

Thursday July 30, 1 PM
Exhibit Hall
Signing

Friday July 31, 10 AM
Albany
Coffee Klatch with C. S. E. Cooney

Friday July 31st, 2 PM
Ballroom 3
Pay it Forward: Mentoring the Next Generation
Moderator: Arley Sorg

Saturday August 1, 1 PM
Boston
Joy as Protest
Moderator: Rob Cameron

Sat August 1, 3 PM
Ballroom 2
Community Building
***Moderator: C. S. E. Cooney

Carlos Hernandez

Friday July 31st 11 AM
Albany
Coffee Klatch with Carlos Hernandez

Friday July 31, 1 PM
Boston
The Art and Practice of Humor
Moderator: Jim C. Hines

Saturday August 1, 10 AM
Ballroom 4
The Privilege of the Living: Humor in the Mundane
***Moderator: Carlos Hernandez

Saturday August 1, 2 PM
Ballroom 4
In conversation with Kwame Mbalia
***Moderator/Interviewer: Carlos Hernandez

Negocios Infernales Games at GENCON!

Find us at Games on Demand!
Where? Westin Hotel: Grand Ballroom III: HQ

We’ll be running Negocios Infernales games in the following time slots for up to four people! Tell friends! Bring friends!

Thursday 4 PM-8 PM
Friday, 4 PM-8 PM
Saturday, 6 PM -10 PM

Want to play Negocios Infernales but don’t know what you’re getting into? Here’s a description!

The Spanish Inquisition INTERRUPTED by aliens! Negocios Infernales is a light, GM-less, collaborative TTRPG with no pre-game prep. You play as wizards who think they are making a deal with devils: but really, well-meaning extraterrestrials are trying to save humanity from itself! Instead of dice, you’ll use a spooky oracle deck to decide your fate and inspire mayhem. It’s Mysterium meets D&D by way of For the Queen!

Here’s our Kickstarter video from a few years ago: negociosinfernales.com
Here’s where you can buy the game online: Outland Entertainment—Negocios Infernales!

Infernal Tour

We kicked off our tour last Wednesday in Concord, MA, where we held an “Infernal Salon” workshop at the Concord Free Public Library: possibly the most beautiful library in the world!

(Well… maybe I say that about all the libraries. I can’t help it. I fall in love EVERY TIME. But Concord is AMAZING.)

Tuesday July 29th
Chicago: Northwest Suburbs
Private Gaming House Party

Thursday July 30-Sunday August 2nd
Indianapolis
GenCon! (see above)

Monday, August 3rd
Evansville, Indianapolis
7 PM—Negocios Infernales Game Night at Your Brother’s Bookstore

Tuesday, August 4th
Evansville Public Library—Oaklyn Branch
“Play To Write: A Q&A and Creative Workshop”
6-7:30 PM
https://evansville.libnet.info/event/16878870

Saturday September 5th, 3:45 PM-7 PM
Twenty Sided store: 280 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA
Play a Negocios Infernales game, run by designers!

My next newsletter/update will have specifics on the following events!

Thursday, August 6th—Chicago Negocios Events TBA
Friday, August 7th—Chicago Negocios Events TBA
Saturday, August 8th—Chicago Negocios Events TBA
Week of August 10th—Kansas City, MO Negocios Events TBA
August 15th-18th—Washington D.C. and Baltimore Negocios Events TBA

This fall, we’re hoping to do events in Philadelphia PA, Pittsburgh PA, Westerly RI, and Boston MA

If you have a game store you love that loves designers running their TTRPGs for interested gamers, contact them and us, and please introduce us! We’d love to come visit and play games with you!

Thank you for sticking with this! We hope to see you this year, while Carlos is on sabbatical and the gaming vibes are GOING STRONG!

Yours Truly,

C. S. E. Cooney

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October 29, 2024 · 10:48 pm

Gothic Novel Prompts

Everyone got a written prompt and a pictorial prompt (see the charts below).

We rolled a 6-sided die twice, counting first across, then down on the chart of Kathleen Jenning’s fairy tale art chart. Then we rolled a 20-sided dice for a sampling from Kathleen Jennings’ “Girls Running from Houses” prompts.

Use them together to make something. It doesn’t REALLY have to be a novel! >.>

Christa Carmen
6-sided die roll X2, 3 across, 6 down: Locked Book
20-side die roll: 4

“The house has been infested by libraries and moths. The girl, like the false bride, dances alone.”

Zig Zag Claybourne/Clarence Young
6-sided die roll X2, 3 across, 2 down:
20-side die roll: 6

“She discovers that the house collects trapdoors. But in addition, there is a legend of a brooding mannequin, who digs holes in the lawn and who slams doors.”

Dr. Kathleen Jennings
6-sided die roll X2, 5 across, 3 down:
20-side die roll: 8

“It’s all happening inevitably, just as she dreamed. One girl runs from the house; another arrives on a Tuesday, seeking peace and quiet.”

Jessica P. Wick
6-sided die roll X2, 4 across, 6 down:
20-side die roll: 15

“The girl was long ago contrary, and she will become sarcastic. She is goose-eyed; she is what the house dreaded.”

Mike Allen
6-sided die roll X2, 2 across, 3 down:
20-side die roll: 2

“In a thunderstorm, the girl is escaping the house. But the house longs.”

Kenesha Williams
6-sided die roll X2, 6 across, 2 down:
20-side die roll: 20

“The girl was recently restless, and she will become peculiarly gifted. An ancient tree curses fate in the garden.”

Juliette Wade
6-sided die roll X2, 2 across, 4 down:
20-side die roll: 5

“The house is beloved of death, and the housekeeper is lark-hearted, and the girl is star-tongued.”

Rob Cameron/Cameron Roberson
6–sided die roll X2, 5 across, 1 (stays):
20-side die roll: 14

“When she flees the house, she will wear the mark of the house. The girl, unlike the house, is hound-swift.”

Dr. Lisa L. Hannett
6-sided die roll X2, 4 across, 2 down:
20-side die roll: 16

The house labours to discover whether the girl is amenable. The girl was recently morbid, yet she will become stubborn. The feared translucent lady, who leaves ice on the counterpane, turns out to be the groundskeeper.

For You, The Chat
6-sided die roll X2, 5 across, 4 down:
20-side die roll: 18

“In the sickroom, the girl sings to herself. Even so, a beetle undulates in flashes of lightning. When the girl arrives, the house is beset by spiderwebs. Just before she leaves, it will be afflicted with mirrors.”