Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
The BoomerangIt’s gone and hit me on the head. Twice.The first boomerang I threw over to America, specifically to my agent. That was the synopsis for The Pale Summer. He’s gotten back to me on it, and has given it the thumbs up with a few caveats. He likes the story, [...]
Edits & E-BayI am not allowed to have an E-Bay account.This was decided very early on in the relationship. At about the same time it was decided that I am not allowed to have a credit card, or any great amount of money in my bank account. The reason for this being it [...]
Nerd Mecca: Sim Lim SquareThere is an immiment trip to the place local tech-geeks love and know very well. It’s called Sim Lim Square. This is a “mall” that has been stuffed to near capacity with high tech shops selling everything from cameras to PC components (Though far more of the latter [...]
It Is Time For You To LEARN…It’s a slow weekend, nothing to do but some shopping, some editing and some gaming, but I figured I would do you all a favor and turn you onto something that you really have no excuse to be unfamiliar with now, Infocom Text Based Adventures.Back in the 80’s this [...]
The “What The Hell Was I Thinking” HatAt least that’s what I think I put on my head when it comes time to comb over a novel looking for all the errors. This is why I think that anyone that believes they’re so wonderously talented that a novel is done when they type “The [...]
So Much For The First Book Being A NovelThey are offering money and the job is reasonable, so I’m gonna’ take it.I just came back from a meeting where I was offered a writer’s gig to crank out a small, fact-based book/guide thingy for kids. The company’s always paid me, and were never especially [...]
Giant Robot ToysOkay, so now I know more about Gundam toys. It was actually a fairly illuminating visit for me, because up till now, the toy area of the geek-o-sphere was a place I’d never really gone to, having burned myself out on my Star Wars toys collection back between the ages of 5-12, [...]
Game WeekIt would appear that this is GameAxis week. That being the magazine I crank out articles on occasion for. They have a bunch of stuff they want by the end of the week, including some Nintendo DS games for review (Most of which, quite honestly, are somewhat questionable in quality, but oh [...]
Slow Rewrites & Comedy VideogamesThe rewrite on the novel has yet to take place in any meaningful way, except for the occasional boot up and random check on a page to fix a typo here and there. Mostly I’m just sitting on it while a bunch of people (Mostly in Canada) go through and [...]