Don't Read This Book

[lagilman]

And, okay, here's another post for a rainy Saturday, just so I can share the fabulousness that is this cover.

...and hint at the fabulousness inside. Seriously. There isn't much that could get me to say "sure, I'll write an RPG tie-in story..." except this world. OMG this world, how could I NOT?   Also, check that ToC.  Just check it out.  Rockin'.

"Sometimes there wasn’t nobody in the Bazaar needed to escape, even for a bit, or the things they offered didn’t interest him none. Then he played for free, letting the notes screech and scamper like those newsboys on a tear, hot flash fading to slow cool, coaxing sounds he hadn’t known existed out of the battered metal, setting them free and returning for more." -- from "Don't Toot Your Horn" by yrs trly


[and, damn it, I came up with characters that SHOULD be in this world, but didn't fit into my story, and now I have no idea what to do with them so you MUST make this a bestseller so they will ask me to write another story. Seriously.]

Comments

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Evil Hat Games does some pretty amazing work. I have Spirit Of The Century in PDF and the Dresden Files RPG in hardcover.

[lagilman]

Have you checked out the SotC Kickstarter yet?

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

No, but I'm at my usual level of impressed now that I have. I'm a bit more interested in the Dresdenverse than I am in the SotCverse.

Still, decopunk rocks! Perhaps that universe needs an Ayn Rand style super-not-quite-a-villain story in it somewhere, with a Tesla analog, and some interesting commentary on colonialism versus capitalism versus communism.

[chaoticgoodnik.livejournal.com]

Is there going to be a dead tree version, or just ebook?

Also, I'm reminded of the acknowledgments in Diane Duane's first Star Trek tie-in novel, which included a bunch of quotes from other SF/F authors. Including Jane Yolen's "You're doing what? Can I get shots for that?" :) (Wording approximate of course.)

[lagilman]

No idea, and as a former tie-in writer (Buffy and Poltergeist the Legacy) I LIKE tie-ins. I just never thought I'd do one for an RPG!

Ok, I need to explain that. I've written for gaming modules before - a long time ago - and I was a gamer, back when I had folk around who did that too. It's just that, with my schedule, it takes a lot for me to stop and do something I won't hold the copyright for (and, bluntly, doesn't pay a lot). So it has to be a massive amount of fun, to get me. This was. Fun. A LOT of fun.

[drivingblind.livejournal.com]

We'll at least provide a dead tree version on our webstore at www.evilhat.com/store -- print on demand makes such things possible. :)