[UA] What You Want, Baby I Got It

Michael Daisey mdaisey at amazon.com
Fri Feb 12 11:02:19 PST 1999


> NG = Naked Goddess book, "Mature Audiences."
	Nah.
> D = Dipsomancer book, "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer."
	Yeah.
> E = Epideromancer book, "Flesh for Fantasy."
	Yeah.
> G = Godwalker.  (Incidentally, I'd probably be writing it, if that
> influences anyone.)
	Nah.
> Ci = Small, specific, individual city books
	Ehh.  Big book oiption below is better.
> Ca = Big, world-changing campaign.
	Nah.
> Os2 = One Shots 2
	Nah.
> GS = Grand Secrets
	Yeah!


> The clear big winner is "Grand Secrets" -- the book that would, of course,
> be hardest to write and about which the least was said.  Let me clarify: I
> envision "Grand Secrets" to be a book of stuff that LOOKS supernatural but
> ISN'T.  If you thought it was a grab bag of fiddly occult stuff, that's
> "Postmodern Magick," which is somewhere in the mill right now.

I know what it is, and I think it's an excellent idea.


  BUT... how about this for a compromise?  A single book
> split into two sections.  The first section is generic city stuff -
> settings, ideas and individuals who can be stuck anywhere.  The second half
> would be SPECIFIC city stuff - chapters on Seattle, Chicago, New York,
> London, L.A., San Francisco, D.C. or whatever - giving the local history,
> the local cabals and the local STUFF. 

	I like this compromise very much.


Michael Daisey
----
"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the
oath." Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek dramatist. Fragments, no. 385.




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