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‘Gwendy’s Button Box,’ Co-Written By Stephen King, Getting a Sequel With ‘Gwendy’s Magic Feather’
Back in 2017, Cemetery Dance published the novel Gwendy’s Button Box, which was written by the duo of Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. King is not returning to co-write the sequel, EW reports today, but he has given his blessing to Chizmar for the follow-up solo venture.
Titled Gwendy’s Magic Feather, the sequel picks up 25 years after the first novel.
In Gwendy’s Button Box, a 12-year-old girl receives a gift from a strange man in a black hat: a mystical box with various buttons that dispenses good fortune to its user while unleashing calamities elsewhere. Gwendy’s Magic Feather revisits Gwendy Peterson 25 years later.
The sequel will feature a foreword by Stephen King.
To learn more about the novel, releasing November 19, read the full EW interview piece.
Free League Publishing are forging ahead with a slew of new content for Alien The Roleplaying Game Evolved Edition, headlined by a new cinematic adventure in “Operation Leading Edge”, and an accompanying set of miniatures.
Both Operation Leading Edge and the miniatures set are available for pre-order now from the Free League webshop, with immediate PDF access ahead of its Q4 2026 release. You can also snag a new dedicated dice tray for the Alien RPG and the Evolved Edition.
Operation Leading Edge is a stand-alone adventure for Alien RPG, but also serves as the second installment of the Jeremiah Saga trilogy. The adventure is designed for 3–5 players plus the Game Mother, and lets the players take the roles of a team of Colonial Marines sent to secure a rich mineral deposit on the remote moon Jeremiah VI.
Here’s what you get with the new campaign:
- The main Operation Leading Edge adventure book.
- Two huge double-sided maps (format 34 × 22 inches) featuring the key adventure locations in great and terrifying detail.
- Five pre-generated characters to choose from.
- Playing cards for personal agendas and NPCs.
- Cardboard tokens for characters and creatures.
- GM maps and player handouts.
Complementing Operation Leading Edge is the new miniatures set for the campaign, featuring 20 high-quality miniatures of Colonial Marines, enemy troops from the Union of Progressive Peoples (UPP), and of course, a host of Xenomorphs.
Standing 28mm in scale, these are perfectly sized for use on the large battle maps included in Operation Leading Edge and other cinematic adventures for the Evolved Edition.
The new Operation Leading Edge miniatures set also includes a booklet with simplified combat rules that make it possible to play quick skirmish battle rules in the Alien universe using the included miniatures.
In case you haven’t hopped on board, you can check out Aaron’s review of the Evolved Edition, which as you might expect, adds even more fantastic content to an already fantastic TTRPG.
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