Six Books Done
Apr. 30th, 2024 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aAs of tonight, I've finished six books since we moved to Hawaii on 1/1/20 and moreso since I moved to halftime work on writing on 4/1/20. So, that's just more than four years' time (or half-time), though there was existing content for four or five of the books, depending on what you count.
DESIGNERS & DRAGONS ORIGINS (Evil Hat). Submitted 4/30/24. [4 books: 442k words]
I just sent my newest four books out today, a product-by-product history of OD&D, AD&D 1e, BD&D, and Mystara. These are based on product histories that I started writing for DTRPG way back in 2013, just as I was finishing the previous Designers & Dragons. I finished my work with DTRPG in 2017, and when I hit Hawaii and freed up time, I started turning them into books.
I actually have HUNDREDS of thousands of words more, covering AD&D 2e, 3e, 4e, and even (based on more recent writing) 5e. But that's all a possibility for another day.
I don't expect to see these first four Origins books in print until at least next year, as Evil Hat has a very busy schedule, but they should be passed off for proofing and editing very soon.
THIS IS FREE TRADER BEOWULF (Mongoose). Submitted 10/17/23. E-published 4/12/24 [112k words]
I closed out my system history of Traveller shortly after I got back from Köln last year. I'm thrilled it's already out as an ebook with the print book to follow around the end of summer.
ELFPACK (Chaosium). Submitted 12/9/21. Submitted last revisions 2/1/22. [136k words]
Yeah, this one has been sitting around a bit, as Chaosium has had a very full schedule with Cult Books, the fourth of which is due out next month. I have faith that Chaosium will eventually get to Elf Pack, though my elf books have not had the best luck, as I submitted a full manuscript of a HeroQuest elf book to Issaries almost two decades ago, and it never went anywhere since Issaries was on their way out of business. Fingers crossed.
(Funny story: the bad experience with the Issaries elf book led me to decide that I needed to shift my creative energy to IPs that I controlled. The result was Designers & Dragons.)
By the by, this was the other book that I had some existing content for, but it was mainly decades of talking with Greg about elves and writing about elves. I only reused a few thousand words from my unpublished Issaries book, the rest was brand-new.
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And I've currently got four books wide open with lots of text: Designers & Dragons Lost Histories I + II, Designers & Dragons the '10s, and The Eternal Concordance (on Michael Moorcock). I'm also preparing to put together a letter of intent for a new system history, thinking about future product history books (since I still have so much content), and planning a small bit of time on some comics or other material with one of my old writing partners.
DESIGNERS & DRAGONS ORIGINS (Evil Hat). Submitted 4/30/24. [4 books: 442k words]
I just sent my newest four books out today, a product-by-product history of OD&D, AD&D 1e, BD&D, and Mystara. These are based on product histories that I started writing for DTRPG way back in 2013, just as I was finishing the previous Designers & Dragons. I finished my work with DTRPG in 2017, and when I hit Hawaii and freed up time, I started turning them into books.
I actually have HUNDREDS of thousands of words more, covering AD&D 2e, 3e, 4e, and even (based on more recent writing) 5e. But that's all a possibility for another day.
I don't expect to see these first four Origins books in print until at least next year, as Evil Hat has a very busy schedule, but they should be passed off for proofing and editing very soon.
THIS IS FREE TRADER BEOWULF (Mongoose). Submitted 10/17/23. E-published 4/12/24 [112k words]
I closed out my system history of Traveller shortly after I got back from Köln last year. I'm thrilled it's already out as an ebook with the print book to follow around the end of summer.
ELFPACK (Chaosium). Submitted 12/9/21. Submitted last revisions 2/1/22. [136k words]
Yeah, this one has been sitting around a bit, as Chaosium has had a very full schedule with Cult Books, the fourth of which is due out next month. I have faith that Chaosium will eventually get to Elf Pack, though my elf books have not had the best luck, as I submitted a full manuscript of a HeroQuest elf book to Issaries almost two decades ago, and it never went anywhere since Issaries was on their way out of business. Fingers crossed.
(Funny story: the bad experience with the Issaries elf book led me to decide that I needed to shift my creative energy to IPs that I controlled. The result was Designers & Dragons.)
By the by, this was the other book that I had some existing content for, but it was mainly decades of talking with Greg about elves and writing about elves. I only reused a few thousand words from my unpublished Issaries book, the rest was brand-new.
--
And I've currently got four books wide open with lots of text: Designers & Dragons Lost Histories I + II, Designers & Dragons the '10s, and The Eternal Concordance (on Michael Moorcock). I'm also preparing to put together a letter of intent for a new system history, thinking about future product history books (since I still have so much content), and planning a small bit of time on some comics or other material with one of my old writing partners.