Still No Winds Of Winter, EA Goes Private, James Gunn DCU Update - Fandom Pulse Daily Briefing
Was nice chatting with one of the Amazon authors doing well in the LitRPG realm this weekend. A pleasant surprise. I came across him because a random post about his talking about his Kickstarter appeared on my feed so was interesting there!
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