Ian Galbraith wrote:
> xposted to alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer,alt.tv.angel
>
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:11:20 -0800 (PST), Gary Thompson wrote:
>
>> Posted about this in rec.arts.sf.written, and didn't hink to crosspost
>> it here. Fantasy author Steven Brust (author of the Vlad Taltos
>> series among other things) has finished a fanfic set in the Firefly
>> universe. Check it out here:
>>
>> http://dreamcafe.com/firefly.html
>
> For those who don't know about this Brust wrote this off his own back
> intending to sell it as a tie in novel because he loved the show.
> Obviously it couldn't be sold.
IMO (and experience,) writing an entire tie-in novel on spec is an
excellent example of a waste of time unless you *do* plan on posting it
as fanfic. I did the same thing (well, except for the posting part)
back in the mid 70s, with a comic series which shall remain nameless,
and couldn't even get the thing looked at. Instead, the publishers went
with an established sci-fi author (which I can understand) who wrote
*such* a piece of crap that it almost ruined the original for me. What
irks me is that I've read some of that author's other works and - while
he's not a favorite of mine - they were okay. I'm reasonably sure he
could have done a better job if not for what appears to have been a
"grab the money and run" attitude coupled with a complete lack of
respect for the source material, which, by and large, was better written
than those adaptations.
--
Rowan Hawthorn
"Occasionally, I'm callous and strange." - Willow Rosenberg, "Buffy the
Vampire Slayer"
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