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05:31 pm September 9th, 2005
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I'm writin' a Buffy book!
And it's one I've wanted to write since the fifth season....

The proposal was approved by Fox this morning, so I can finally talk about it. This was one of the July tie-in proposals. Called Blackout, the book is currently scheduled for July 2006, and will focus on the character of Nikki Wood, a 1970s-era Slayer from New York City. We first saw her in "Fool for Love," where Spike killed her on a moving subway in 1977, and we found out more about her in the seventh season when we met her now-grown-up son Robin, and saw her again in flashback in "Lies My Parents Told Me."

I grew up in NYC in the 1970s, and remember the summer of 1977 in particular very well (the Yankees in a pennant race with newly arrived superstar Reggie Jackson, the blackout, the Son of Sam murders, the city still a fiscal disaster area), and it's the perfect backdrop for a Slayer's adventures. The novel will feature Nikki, her four-year-old son Robin, her Watcher Bernard Crowley, and both Spike and Drusilla. Plus there'll be a Sunnydale frame featuring some familiar faces. *grin*

I'm gonna start on this in October.....

ETA: Thanks to [info]dianora2 for the spiffo avatar!

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Thread started by Jason
jadasc From: [info]jadasc Date: September 9th, 2005 09:39 pm (UTC) (Link)
Dude! That sounds like an amazing amount of fun.

(Bonus points for sliding in a Generation X reference somewhere.)
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 9th, 2005 09:51 pm (UTC) (Link)
Okay, you've lost me -- why would a Generation X reference give me bonus points? *very confused*
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Thread started by Nicholas
nwhyte From: [info]nwhyte Date: September 9th, 2005 09:42 pm (UTC) (Link)
Good stuff - will look out for this once you've published it!
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 9th, 2005 09:52 pm (UTC) (Link)
Well, to be fair, Pocket's publishing it, not me....

(And another nit bites the dust!!!!!)
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Thread started by Rantmaster
rantmaster From: [info]rantmaster Date: September 9th, 2005 09:43 pm (UTC) (Link)
Ooo! That sounds pretty darn nifty!
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 9th, 2005 09:53 pm (UTC) (Link)
That is my hope.....
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Thread started by Miss Kat
zarhooie From: [info]zarhooie Date: September 9th, 2005 09:45 pm (UTC) (Link)
*squee* So. Cool. OMGLOLBBQ.

Hey, speaking of BBQ, if you're ever in the upper midwest (think Minneapolis), let me know and I'll make you some. ;)
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 9th, 2005 09:52 pm (UTC) (Link)
Thanks!

(Oh my God, laugh out loud, barbecue. Right. *chuckle*)
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Thread started by wiccanslyr
wiccanslyr From: [info]wiccanslyr Date: September 9th, 2005 09:47 pm (UTC) (Link)
ROCK!

Can you put some lemurs in it? ::grin::
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 9th, 2005 09:53 pm (UTC) (Link)
What's scary? I mean really really scary?

There actually may be a way to work a lemur or two into it.

I'm going to go drink heavily now.....
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Thread started by Nea
neadods From: [info]neadods Date: September 9th, 2005 09:49 pm (UTC) (Link)
So VERY cool!
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 9th, 2005 09:54 pm (UTC) (Link)
Thanks!
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Thread started by Vampry
vampry From: [info]vampry Date: September 9th, 2005 10:00 pm (UTC) (Link)
Wow. Very, very cool.

I look forward to it.
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:13 am (UTC) (Link)
Me, too. *grin*

And hey, did you get my e-mail reply to your e-mail?
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Thread started by hoosier_red
hoosier_red From: [info]hoosier_red Date: September 9th, 2005 10:03 pm (UTC) (Link)
That sounds like one hell of a book -- and oh, you're gonna have fun writing it...
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:14 am (UTC) (Link)
Oh, I intend to have a lot of fun writing it. *big evil grin*
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Thread started by brendan_moody
From: [info]brendan_moody Date: September 9th, 2005 10:19 pm (UTC) (Link)
Sounds neat. Congrats!
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:16 am (UTC) (Link)
Thanks!
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Thread started by Cal
calturner From: [info]calturner Date: September 9th, 2005 10:19 pm (UTC) (Link)
It sounds wonderful! I'll be looking forward to reading it. :)
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:17 am (UTC) (Link)
And I look forward to writing it....
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Thread started by Jen the Spoiler Ho
supermom20 From: [info]supermom20 Date: September 9th, 2005 10:22 pm (UTC) (Link)
Congratulations! I enjoy your DS9 books greatly and can't wait to read this addition to the Jossverse.
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:17 am (UTC) (Link)
Thanks! And glad you're enjoying the Trek stuff!
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yendi From: [info]yendi Date: September 9th, 2005 10:26 pm (UTC) (Link)
Excellent! As someone else who grew up in NYC in the '70s (with '77, in fact, being the summer I first really discovered baseball) and who loved the two brief appearances of Nikki, I'm especially looking forward to this.
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:20 am (UTC) (Link)
Thee and me, both.

It's been interesting, not only thinking back on 1977, but I've been renting lots of movies from the era (blaxploitation, mainly, for obvious reasons), and it's the little things that are coming back to me.
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Thread started by scarlettina
scarlettina From: [info]scarlettina Date: September 9th, 2005 10:47 pm (UTC) (Link)
Yay! That's FABulous! Congratulations!
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:21 am (UTC) (Link)
Thanks!
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Thread started by kefiraahava
kefiraahava From: [info]kefiraahava Date: September 9th, 2005 11:13 pm (UTC) (Link)
Congratulations!
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:21 am (UTC) (Link)
Thanks!
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Thread started by Da Breast Wrangler
preacherman01 From: [info]preacherman01 Date: September 9th, 2005 11:31 pm (UTC) (Link)
I'm not big on the Buffy books but if you let us all know when it comes out I WILL go pick it up.
Cause it sounds like it Will be an interesting read.

And Congratulations!!
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:21 am (UTC) (Link)
Danke schoen, mein freund.
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Thread started by Bill Leisner
bill_leisner From: [info]bill_leisner Date: September 9th, 2005 11:55 pm (UTC) (Link)
Shiny!!

(Oops, wrong Whedon franchise. Sorry...)
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:22 am (UTC) (Link)
Given the era the book'll be taking place in, "Groovy" might work.... *chuckle*
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Thread started by Shrimpy
gracefulshrimp From: [info]gracefulshrimp Date: September 10th, 2005 12:09 am (UTC) (Link)
hey! we just watched that episode! sweet!


Congrats!!!!!!!
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:22 am (UTC) (Link)
Timing is everything....
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Thread started by Tony Caselli
tony101 From: [info]tony101 Date: September 10th, 2005 12:28 am (UTC) (Link)
Very Cool! And if I remember correctly, that's the origin of Spike's Coat, right? Sweeet.
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:23 am (UTC) (Link)
Yup. Nikki is the source of the Cool-Ass Leather Duster Of Doom. *grin*
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Thread started by paxomen
From: [info]paxomen Date: September 10th, 2005 01:13 am (UTC) (Link)
Heya, can't wait, maybe it's also worth taking into account Nikki Wood's 2 other appearences in the Jossverse:

'Nikki Goes Down' a brief read in a 'Tales of the Slayers' graphic novel
It's written by 'Fool for Love' writer, Doug Petrie. The story isn't given obvious timeline, but it reveals she sleeps with her cop boyfriend Li, also there is no mention of her son Robin, so it's possible he has yet to be born, and 'Li' was the father. Since Li gets killed, this would also explain the absence of Robin's father in his life

And Nancy Holder's 'It's all about the Mission' a 33-page mini-story about a pregnant 18 year old Nikki's 'Tentio di Cruciamentum' (what Buffy faced in 'Helpless' when Giles took her powers before she faced a vampire in a closed building). It's revealed that Bernard Crowley looked after his nephew Jonah, and had his own shop in Harlem, New York.

Would be super cool if the book fitted in with continuity of 'Nikki Goes Down', and 'It's All About the Mission' as well as 'Fool for Love', & 'Lies My Parents Told Me', or at the very least great if the new book didn't contradict stuff in the stories by Holder, and Petrie.


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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:25 am (UTC) (Link)
How much/little of Nancy's story and Doug & Gene's comics story will be incorporated into Blackout is still being worked out, but rest assured, I'm familiar with both of them. *smile*
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Thread started by Magical Truthsaying Bastard Shadesong
shadesong From: [info]shadesong Date: September 10th, 2005 01:40 am (UTC) (Link)
Dude! Yay you! Can't wait to read it; I've been curious about Nikki. :)
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:25 am (UTC) (Link)
Me, too. Shit, from the moment we saw her in "Fool for Love," I was dying to learn more about her.
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Thread started by Kessa/Debra
kessadebra From: [info]kessadebra Date: September 10th, 2005 01:42 am (UTC) (Link)
Sounds like a good read. I look forward to it....especially growing up in the northeast during that time and remembering all that you mentioned....okay, maybe not the baseball (I am a hopeless geek with no athletic tendencies). :-)
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:26 am (UTC) (Link)
I'm also a hopeless geek with no athletic tendencies, but I started following the Yankees in 1976. *grin*
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Thread started by Tori Morris
skywaterblue From: [info]skywaterblue Date: September 10th, 2005 01:48 am (UTC) (Link)
Nikki! I'm so excited about this one.
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:26 am (UTC) (Link)
Ooooh, nice avatar......
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Thread started by Alida
surprise_sexx From: [info]surprise_sexx Date: September 10th, 2005 01:58 am (UTC) (Link)
God blesshyoo! God blesshyoo!

*bows*

I'm so excited. I've always loved the Spike and Nikki arc, so this will most def. be a good one.

-Alida
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:29 am (UTC) (Link)
"Arc" is perhaps too strong a word, but there's definitely something there. *grin*

The thing is, everything we've gotten on her onscreen has been from other people's points of view: Spike's in "Fool for Love" and Robin's in "Lies My Parents Told Me." I'm fixin' to change that. We've gotten glimpses in the two extant Nikki tales (Nancy Holder's story in the Tales of the Slayer Vol. 4 anthology and Doug Petrie & Gene Colan's tale in the Tales of the Slayers comic book), but nothing like what we'll see in Blackout. *grin*
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Thread started by VirtualWolf
virtualwolf From: [info]virtualwolf Date: September 10th, 2005 02:14 am (UTC) (Link)
Very nice, I'll have to check it out. :)

I'm currently waiting for the Serenity novelization I ordered from Amazon to arrive. :D
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:29 am (UTC) (Link)
Should be there any day now......
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Thread started by Mer
stakebait From: [info]stakebait Date: September 10th, 2005 02:22 am (UTC) (Link)
Whoo hoo! I would *totally* read that. What a great concept!
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kradical From: [info]kradical Date: September 10th, 2005 05:30 am (UTC) (Link)
Thanks! Like I said, been wanting to write this book since "Fool for Love" aired, and only was more intrigued in the seventh season....
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