Shannon A. (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} shannon_a) wrote,@ 2008-05-16 00:13:00 |
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Publication!
I just got a copy of RuneQuest Monsters II and as I was very pleased to see that they'd incorporated monsters from many recent RuneQuest book. More specifically, I'm listed in the credits because it includes monsters from my RuneQuest Aldryami book. It includes my unique Aldryami Elementals, which I spent a very considerable amount of time puzzling over, as well as stats for all the Aldryami types I outlined in the book.
One of the reasons that I pushed really hard to write that book was because I didn't want the ideas I'd written for my (still unpublished) HeroQuest book to get lost. Now seeing those ideas "infect" another book, as they slowly spread out to become Gloranthan reality is great.
Getting a published copy of a book that you worked on is always great. Getting it when you didn't even know your content was in it is even greater (provided, I suppose, that the people in question had the right to use your stuff, which Mongoose did).
This makes me want to work on a RuneQuest book again. I should query on the two proposals that I sent in a while ago. Though I'm still daunted by the history book, I could easily write another RuneQuest book while working on my (workday) iPhone project; they're different enough.
I just got a copy of RuneQuest Monsters II and as I was very pleased to see that they'd incorporated monsters from many recent RuneQuest book. More specifically, I'm listed in the credits because it includes monsters from my RuneQuest Aldryami book. It includes my unique Aldryami Elementals, which I spent a very considerable amount of time puzzling over, as well as stats for all the Aldryami types I outlined in the book.
One of the reasons that I pushed really hard to write that book was because I didn't want the ideas I'd written for my (still unpublished) HeroQuest book to get lost. Now seeing those ideas "infect" another book, as they slowly spread out to become Gloranthan reality is great.
Getting a published copy of a book that you worked on is always great. Getting it when you didn't even know your content was in it is even greater (provided, I suppose, that the people in question had the right to use your stuff, which Mongoose did).
This makes me want to work on a RuneQuest book again. I should query on the two proposals that I sent in a while ago. Though I'm still daunted by the history book, I could easily write another RuneQuest book while working on my (workday) iPhone project; they're different enough.
