From: debg	Date: September 12th, 2006 10:55 pm (UTC)		(Link)

high-fives

NEAT cover!

	From: jaylake	Date: September 12th, 2006 10:58 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Rock-a-doodle, ba-bee!

	From: marinarusalka	Date: September 12th, 2006 11:00 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Looking good!

	From: inlaterdays	Date: September 12th, 2006 11:21 pm (UTC)		(Link)

LURVE it.

	From: klingonguy	Date: September 13th, 2006 12:08 am (UTC)		(Link)

Very cool, but I think you need to start demanding some kind of Hitchcock thing. That should be your silhouette in the background.

	From: kradical	Date: September 14th, 2006 02:02 am (UTC)		(Link)

That should be your silhouette in the background.

How do you know it isn't?????????????????

	From: klingonguy	Date: September 14th, 2006 02:31 am (UTC)		(Link)

How do you know it isn't?????????????????

Because your prosthesis isn't showing.

	From: suricattus	Date: September 13th, 2006 12:49 am (UTC)		(Link)

Very nice! Not sure how well the tag line works with the story, but maybe I just haven't gotten there yet....

	From: yasminke	Date: September 13th, 2006 01:44 am (UTC)		(Link)

Excellent! Can't wait.

	From: meggins	Date: September 13th, 2006 04:08 am (UTC)		(Link)

Wowsa!

Ooh, and I just got my copy of Blackout today. Huzzah!

	From: kradical	Date: September 14th, 2006 02:03 am (UTC)		(Link)

Excellent! Hope you like it....

	From: celticboy	Date: September 13th, 2006 07:55 am (UTC)		(Link)

ooooohhhhhh Purdy

L

	From: meharet	Date: September 13th, 2006 10:46 am (UTC)		(Link)

Wow, that's bootiful. Congrats!

	From: stevenagy	Date: September 13th, 2006 12:42 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Very nice. :-)

From: (Anonymous)	Date: September 13th, 2006 02:21 pm (UTC)		(Link)

krad - hope you don't mind but I just posted news of the cover over at Whedonesque. Very pretty cover, great tagline!
-catalyst2

	From: kradical	Date: September 14th, 2006 02:03 am (UTC)		(Link)

Don't mind a bit.

	From: ecossefilmmaker	Date: September 13th, 2006 02:25 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Looks neat :)
What's the blurb?

	From: tru2myart	Date: September 13th, 2006 09:33 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I like it!

	From: helygen	Date: September 13th, 2006 10:38 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Oooh fantastic! =D

	From: _gigo_	Date: September 14th, 2006 01:34 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Love

LOVE!!

One thing I've been wondering is:
How does one get started writing with the Jossman?
I adore Buffy and Firefly, and have been wanting to write the eps in books, like was done for the Buffy series.
I adored the book for Serenity (own.) and was wondering if there was any way to talk to Joss about writing stuff that takes place AFTER the movie.

...Help?

	From: kradical	Date: September 14th, 2006 02:01 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Love

First of all, thanks!

Okay, a crash course in how tie-in fiction works: The licensor, who is the owner of the property (in the case of Buffy, it's the 20th Century Fox Film Corporation; with Star Wars, it's LucasFilm; with Star Trek, it's CBS/Paramount; with Serenity, it's NBC/Universal) sells the rights to do tie-in novels to a publishing company. That publishing company then hires writers (like me) to write the novels. We have to go through an approvals process, but we don't generally work directly with the producers. Even in those instances where the producer has approval (which Joss does with Serenity, but doesn't with Buffy), we don't work straight with that person, we work with our editor, our editor works with a licensing person at the studio, and the licensing person works with the producer.

Regarding Serenity in particular, Pocket Books bought the rights to do three books. One was my novelization; the other two were to be two original novels that picked up from the movie. Back in May 2005, Pocket solicited a bunch of established authors (I was one of them; Jamie Chambers & Margaret Weis, who wrote the RPG, did one; at least three people on my friends list wrote proposals as well) to write proposals. In June 2005, they were sent to Universal, who sent them to Joss.

Fifteen months later, they're still sitting on Joss's desk.

So if there are novels that take place after the movie (which is looking exceedingly unlikely), they will be produced by Pocket Books, because they're the ones with the rights to it.

As for Buffy -- I have to ask, are you a published fiction author?

	From: _gigo_	Date: September 14th, 2006 02:08 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Love

No, but I'm on my way.
I'm working with Janrae Frank on her Moonstone of Reyanon Series.

I'm also writing some stuff on the side for her.

So... publishing is forthcoming... I just can't say when.

-...sigh- It's a life dream of mine that I MUST DO before I die: Work For, Write For, or MEET Joss Whedon.

	From: kradical	Date: September 14th, 2006 03:32 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Love

Erm, that link doesn't go anywhere.....

	From: _gigo_	Date: September 14th, 2006 06:02 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Love

...feh. Janrae Frank
try that one, I coulda made a typo.