Free desktop wallpapers now available, and new product updates!

Published on 27 July 2010 in ACER, Announcements, Free Stuff, Katringa, Products, Wallpapers and Website Update. Closed

Spica Publishing is pleased to announce the release of a series of free desktop wallpapers that you can download from our new Desktop Wallpaper page. These wallpapers are completely free of charge and are available in a variety of aspect ratios for your desktops, and include cover art from all our existing products… as well as from some new products that are on the way!

The long-awaited Allies, Contacts, Enemies and Rivals (ACER) book is currently pencilled in for an August 2010 release. Written by John Griffiths and Richard Hazlewood, it contains over 40 pages of fully detailed NPCs and organisations to help or hinder your characters, including a full Marine platoon and the crew of a Mercenary Cruiser!
System Book 1: Katringa is a brand new product in the pipeline (currently in layout and final editing), pencilled in for a September 2010 release. Written by Richard Hazlewood and Constantine Thomas, this is the first in a series of books describing fully detailed, realistic planetary systems and societies that you can insert into any Traveller or SF game.

You can download the wallpaper showcasing the cover art for these two new products (as well as our other products) from the new Desktop Wallpaper page. Additionally, we plan to post previews of both products soon so stay tuned for more announcements!

Spica Twitter is up and running again!

Published on 27 July 2010 in Twitter. Closed

The Spica Twitter feed is back again – you can now find it at http://www.twitter.com/spicapublish

Please follow it to keep up with the latest updates from Spica Publishing! (we’ll follow you back!).

Welcome to the revamped Spica Publishing website!

Published on 27 July 2010 in Announcements and Website Update. Closed

Welcome to the new look Spica Publishing website! We’ve been very busy updating things here over the past couple of weeks, and the new site will give us lots of room to grow.

To navigate around the site, use the links at the top of the page (below the Spica Publishing logo). Alternatively, you can use the “On This Site” links in the sidebar on the right.

At the top of the sidebar you’ll find links to the DTRPG Spica store where you can purchase our PDFs, the Spica forums, Facebook, and Twitter pages (please register or follow us to keep up with the latest updates!). We’ve also got a direct feed from Spica Twitter, and some links to Other Sites of interest. If you’re looking for news posts about a specific topic, you can find it easily using the “News Topics” list, or you can search through the Archives by month.

We also have a shiny new blog (the “News & Updates” link at the top of the page) that is hosted on this site; we’ll be posting updates on new products, sales, and anything else related to Spica Publishing there, as well as updating the facebook and twitter pages. You can enter your email address in the “Subscribe to Blog!” form in the sidebar on the right of the page in order to receive emails whenever we post an update to the new blog. If you want to comment on any posts on the blog, just click on the title of the entry and then you can comment there.

Hopefully everything is working fine – if it isn’t then please let us know by commenting on this post (or by posting on the Spica forums).

Spica Internet reshuffle in progress

Published on 7 July 2010 in Twitter and Website Update. Closed

We are having a big internet reshuffle, and sadly the SP twitter account has had to go *for the time being*. We’ll be tweeting again soon, folks.

Allies, Contacts, Enemies & Rivals update

Published on 9 May 2010 in ACER and Products. Closed

At the time of this post, I am working my way through the ACER manuscript with a view to having it finished in the next 24 hours. I’ll post the sections that I think are done and dusted up as PDFs on the private section of the Spica Publishing boards.

Spica Blog & Twitter pages updated

Published on 8 May 2010 in Website Update. 5 Comments

I’ve updated the colour schemes for this blog and the official Spica Publishing Twitter page.

Allies, Contacts, Enemies & Rivals (‘ACER’) Cover Art Preview!

Published on 3 January 2010 in ACER and Products. Closed

We’ve put up a preview of the cover art for ACER by David Redington on the Spica Publishing facebook page! Enjoy!

Career Book 2 Print Edition has left the building

Published on 5 October 2009 in Career Book 2, Hardcopy, Lulu and Products. Closed

The last of the print edition orders of Career Book 2 were handed in to the Royal Mail today!

Each box contains a print edition of Career Book 2 and the free 2d6 Spica logo dice; also everyone has had their free PDF eVoucher sent to them. I consider the CB2 print order to have been a success, and customers seem to like, and appreciate, the freebies! Thank you to all of our customers who bought CB2 – we’re sure you’ll like the book and the free dice when you receive them!

Career Book 2 is still available to buy as a print edition from Spica Publishing’s Lulu store, on a print-on-demand basis.

Career Book 2 Print Edition deadline has passed

Published on 28 September 2009 in Career Book 2 and Products. 1 Comment
The print order period for Career Book 2 has now ended and the books have been ordered.

Career Book 2 hardcopy deadline is extremely imminent!

Published on 26 September 2009 in Career Book 2, Hardcopy, Lulu and Products. Closed

There are only 26 1/2 hours left to order your copy of the print edition of Career Book 2!