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Repetitious phrases

Cool! I hope all you folks like the book. I'm perversely proud of the fact that I came up with a form of mortal remains that (as far as I know) had never been explored on the tv show before: shrunken heads!
It hasn't, on any of the three shows. I collect all the CSI novels anyway, but it's nice to see my favourite authors branching out.

Have you considered a Dark Angel novel, Greg? Max Allan Collins wrapped up the plotlines from the show, but I think there's plenty more that could be done. Criminal Minds is also open for business.
 
Something to keep in mind: whether or not there are books that tie in to a particular series is determined by the publisher and the production company, not by an author. If Greg wants to write a Dark Angel novel, he's pretty much shit out of luck, since no one has that license, and no one is likely to pick it up.
 
Something to keep in mind: whether or not there are books that tie in to a particular series is determined by the publisher and the production company, not by an author. If Greg wants to write a Dark Angel novel, he's pretty much shit out of luck, since no one has that license, and no one is likely to pick it up.

Yeah, otherwise I would be writing XENA and DARK SHADOWS novels right now . . . :)
 
^ I'd be writing a Eureka novel sometime soon, followed by an original Mission Impossible novel, some James Bond, and Battlestar Galactica book and maybe a 24 novel. But alas, it ain't up to me.

ETA: And I'd probably be glad to betray a few close friends in order to get a shot at writing an original novel based on Indiana Jones.
 
^ Heh :evil:

I'd love to do Eureka, as well. It's one of my favorite shows. Other favorites, though the licenses are already spoken for and have writers assigned for the forseeable future, are 24 and Burn Notice.


To keep this somewhat on topic, I suppose a repetitious phrase at this point would be, "I'd love to write _______."
 
I'd be up for a CHUCK novel as well, and someday, before I die, I want to do something based on the old Universal Monster movies . . . .
 
Maybe, but they already had the writers lined up the last time I checked . . . and you bet I checked!

(I'm reading Mike Friedman's WOLF MAN novel now . . . .)
 
It still bugs the shit out of me that nobody ever did a proper Blake's 7 novel licence...

And I wouldn't mind doing The Shield either
 
I'm perversely proud of the fact that I came up with a form of mortal remains that (as far as I know) had never been explored on the tv show before: shrunken heads!
My grandmother used to keep shrunken heads in our kitchen.





What? :vulcan: She carved them out of apples, shrank them, and made them into dolls. It used to freak out the students who came to our house when I had my home typing business (I specialized in term papers for the local college students). They'd see these shrunken heads hanging from the kitchen shelves, and I'd tell them, "Oh, by the way, my grandmother's a headhunter, guess I forgot to tell you that..." :)

Something to keep in mind: whether or not there are books that tie in to a particular series is determined by the publisher and the production company, not by an author. If Greg wants to write a Dark Angel novel, he's pretty much shit out of luck, since no one has that license, and no one is likely to pick it up.

Yeah, otherwise I would be writing XENA and DARK SHADOWS novels right now . . . :)
I'd enjoy more Xena novels, especially any that took up Gabrielle's adventures after Xena's final death. When the series left off, she was heading toward Egypt.

Actually, I'd really like it if somebody would write more Crow novels. I don't mean the depressing trade paperback kind of novels, but a novelized version of the Brandon Lee movie. There was a wonderful fan-written version on the 'Net years ago, but it disappeared and I've never managed to find it again.
 
I have weird tastes -- I always wanted to write novels based on RoboCop: The Series. And I would've loved to get to write a Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda novel set during the height of the Systems Commonwealth -- maybe a backstory novel for Dylan Hunt and the Andromeda Ascendant as a counterpart to KRAD's backstory novel for the rest of the cast.

And ever since I got the DVDs of Filmation's Space Academy and Jason of Star Command, I've been fantasizing about doing a comic-book "reboot" based on both series.
 
And I'd be writing NCIS and GibbsSmackin' the hell out of people.

^ I'd be writing a Eureka novel sometime soon, ... and Battlestar Galactica book and maybe a 24 novel. But alas, it ain't up to me.

ETA: And I'd probably be glad to betray a few close friends in order to get a shot at writing an original novel based on Indiana Jones.

^ Heh :evil:

I'd love to do Eureka, as well. It's one of my favorite shows. Other favorites, though the licenses are already spoken for and have writers assigned for the forseeable future, are 24 and Burn Notice.

I'd be up for a CHUCK novel as well, and someday, before I die, I want to do something based on the old Universal Monster movies . . . .

Dibs on a Pushing Daisies tie-in...
If you guys ever got to do any of this stuff, I can guarantee you one sale right now.
 
It still bugs the shit out of me that nobody ever did a proper Blake's 7 novel licence...
How dare you insult those masterpieces of modern literature, Avon: A Terrible Aspect and Afterlife!!!!!!

(Seriously: right there with you. Those two books were, in a word, embarrassing.)


And I wouldn't mind doing The Shield either
I actually contacted Fox licensing about the possibility of novels based on The Shield in my (now former) capacity as a book packager, and was told that Shawn Ryan didn't like the idea of tie-in novels. *sigh*
 
I actually contacted Fox licensing about the possibility of novels based on The Shield in my (now former) capacity as a book packager, and was told that Shawn Ryan didn't like the idea of tie-in novels. *sigh*

I'm more shocked Fox give a damn about what Ryan thinks if there's potential for making money. Assuming he's no legal control over it (which would seem unlikely?).
 
It varies from production to production. Sometimes the creator/showrunner will have a say in it. In this case, he obviously does. :)
 
Not that I have the kind of clout of most of those posting here, but oh gods, I'd sell my soul to get the chance at a (new) Battlestar Galactica novel. The possibilities are as endless as the number of Sixes out there.... (although I prefer Boomer as a character any day).
 
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