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There might be at least some usable information in the non-novel stuff people put in their novels--forewords, afterwords, acknowledgments, and whatever else. It's at least a place where an author might talk about another.

Combine it with a fake persona, a fake name, and a fake voice, and wait for the call from the Nobel Committee.

Life is the crummiest book I've ever read, there isn't a hook, just a lot of cheap shots, pictures that shock, and characters an amateur would never dream up.

There's also a lot of room, even in a novel that very much prioritizes telling a hell of a story, for ... non-story thoughts to percolate in. King of Ashes, for instance, has a ton of stuff going on besides the story, and the story doesn't suffer one iota.

Things always get worse before they get better ... but who said they'd get better?

Yeah, those end credits are awesomely done.

In case you need a visual reference ... (Seems more likely to be helpful if you're checking your inventory.) EDIT: I haven't read much of his Anno Dracula and related stuff, because I got really tired of vampires (and haven't gotten over that) and I have a strong preference against series...

You might (or might not) be interested in Kim Newman's novel, Something More Than Night. It's a mystery with some supernatural elements, with Raymond Chandler as the main POV character. Very much a riff on Chandler's novels, especially The Big Sleep. If you're also into pre-WW2 Hollywood, the...

As someone who's done MIDI programming as a job ... No. :LOL:

This feels as though it would pair well with "Wherever you go, there you are."

Unrelated to the above: I woke up and there were people saying stupid stuff everywhere on line. Not just stupid stuff, stupid stuff that pissed me off. Seeing it in writing, it's not so different from any other day, I guess.

Sure! This is my wife and me a couple of years ago when we were hitting a lot of mound sites in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. You can tell she loves me.

Uh ... Complaints about the ride people explicitly weren't invited along on?

My tranquility improved greatly once I realized everyone else was wrong. 😉

Even if "get it out there" is just to the people at your table. You don't need to publish anything any further or more than that. I mean, if you want to, do, but you don't need to, to use and enjoy the material.

I gotta applaud someone who says first thing that they are irrelevant and not to be trusted. Good job, well done!

Barker's long had a gift for starting stories. Sometimes he gets mislaid on his way to finishing them, of course. His opening to The Great and Secret Show is similarly brilliant, and it's difficult to imagine a better start to a horror story than "There is no delight the equal of dread."

I don't think people in the Pleistocene would have objected to the GM making an adjustment to a roll that was in the players' interests. The main objection I see to it, personally, is it interfering with their ability to get how the world works--but considering how little of the rules the...