I went to Brust's reading at Synthetic ConFusion back in January. This is the Firefly book I want most to read. It was well done, funny, with a touch of the skewed morality of Firefly. I've become resigned to waiting until he publishes it as fan fic -- but I'd pay handsomely for a hardcover.

cabri | May 29, 14:11 CET

People who are serious about writing media books, which I’m not, submit proposals so you don’t have to put in the work of writing a book before finding out if the thingll sell. I didn’t do that, cuz I didn’t care. I just wanted to write it, cuz if I didn’t write it, I wouldn’t be able to read it.

I think I love this guy.

gossi | May 29, 14:21 CET

The temptation to mug him and run off with the manuscript was nearly overpowering, but he had his assistant with him and they would have outflanked me...

I mean, it would have been wrong. Yeah.

C. A. Bridges | May 29, 16:25 CET

From the words I read here, I'm looking forward to reading Steven's work. Joss' mind child can go in a thousand directions and I'm so happy to see our talented writers to put pen in hand. I'm tickled pink!

Madhatter | May 29, 17:12 CET

I really want to read that book now.

Books cost a lot less to produce than movies. Surely there's enough of a fan base to sell books, even if it wasn't enough to make a hit of a movie.

zencat | May 29, 19:10 CET

I think I love this guy.
As well you should - he, and his writing, are phenomenal.

Er. *glances at username*
Not that I'm a huge fan of Steven's work, and have been obsessively following his career and books like most folks follow Joss. Not at all. Ahem.

Quite seriously, if folks here haven't read Steven's work, they should really remedy that. Steven and Joss have very similar senses of their characters, inhabiting them, and creating them with...

Well. Let's just say I think some of their characters would be great friends. Or really hate each other, because that's the way it goes when you meet someone similar to yourself - you either really love 'em, or really hate them.

Okay. I'll stop fangirling on you now. Honest.

Loiosh | May 29, 20:37 CET

Damn.

I've been salivating over this since kit_kindred e-mailed me some dialogue SKZB had written for "My Own Kind of Freedom" last summer.

I'll read (and recommend) anything Brust writes. Even if his next project is transcribing Des Moines' Yellow Pages.

Particularly if he's doing it as Paarfi.

squidnurse | May 30, 00:46 CET

Very interesting. Does a professional writer have different standards to follow when publishing something as "fanfic" than us regular fans do? (I guess in this case "fanfic" means, "I'm not going to try to make money on this because I didn't get the rights, but I still want people to read it.")

Personally, I find the Des Moines Yellow Pages a bit chaotic. I mean, there were so many characters, I had a hard time following the plot. Not to mention all the product placements! ;-)

billz | May 30, 03:30 CET

This sounds wonderful. I hope this comes out one way or another......

phlebotinin | May 30, 04:03 CET

Does a professional writer have different standards to follow when publishing something as "fanfic" than us regular fans do?

Well, technically fanfic is illegal, so professional authors tend to put aliases on their fanfic work. Apparently.

gossi | May 30, 14:29 CET

WThat's awesome. A writer just up and writes a FF book because he feels like it. If there's a better testament to the power of the 'verse I ain't herd it.

EDIT: ...you know, other than thousands of fans convincing a major studio to make a movie out of it.

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[ edited by Resolute on 2006-05-31 07:57 ]

Resolute | May 31, 09:03 CET