>Chaosium Inc. has lined up the talented Phil and Marion Anderson to
>edit the Gloranthan Fiction line. There will be a group of Gloranthan
>advisors to help in manuscript selection and creation.
While I would argue slightly with the 'talented' appelation above, being a creature of extreme modesty, the rest is indeed true.
Any of you out there who are interested in writing for the fiction line, please write to Marion at:
avimort_at_zikzak.net
or at:
Glorantha Fiction
c/- 25 Stockdale Ave
Nth Clayton, 3168
VIC, Australia
and we'll send you out a package of "writers' guidelines" once we've finished putting them together.
DO NOT send us stories without a prior request for them, the mailbox probably isn't that big!
Intentions at present are to produce both anthologies (short stories, novellas, and poetry) and novels set in Glorantha.
What we are aiming at:
1) fiction that can be read and enjoyed by anyone, not just by gamers.
(This means that we do NOT want retellings of what you did in last night's
game. We also do NOT want long elaborations of spell casting rituals in
the text, or detailed retellings of battle strategies.)
2) fiction that, while being definitely Gloranthan in feel and
setting, cannot be recognised as being "game related" to a non-gamer.
This may seem a bit harsh, but we are looking at the broad fantasy reading population out there as our prime market, and while game-spawned novels sell, they sell best if the game mechanics are invisible!
More details in the writers' guidelines on request.
Marion (& Phil)
avimort_at_zikzak.net
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