To all authors,
If you want to write something, send me an email. If you don't know
what you want to write, but want to help in general, it will be
harder to find something that works, but we won't know until we try.
Please don't feel that you have to understand everything about
Glorantha before you can write anything for Glorantha. If you have a
topic in mind we can work with you to make sure you are mindful of
the previously published material. In most cases, most topics don't
have a huge amount of material published on them anyway. Also,
Glorantha is an evolving thing so it's not as if everything
previously published has to be obeyed and built upon without change
or deviation. We're not going to have someone write about Orlanth
becoming the god of little elves and pixies (since the LEAP
supplement is already being worked on) via various reviews and
content controls. Please don't get hung up on the "I don't know
enough to write anything" roadblock.
The same goes for Questworlds, which is licensed to Moon Design.
Hope that helps,
Rick Meints
Moon Design Publications
>
>
> >
> > I'd like to see more authors, to write up all these great ideas.
Unlike
> big
> > RPG companies, Moon Design and Issaries have no on-staff authors
to
> produce
> > books, they rely on freelancers.
> >
>
> I can see you point. I have written a couple of rpg books - The
> Parapsychologist's Handbook monograph for Call of Cthulhu, and
(with Neil)
> The Mysteries Revised Edition for Ars Magica. I've two more rpg
books
> awaiting publication, but NDA etc means I can say nothing on those
> http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=12126
> So yes I'd be keen to contribute to Glorantha, in fact I would love
to...
>
> However, a whole book? Well, there is forty years worth of writing
on
> Glorantha, and while I have no seen all the official HW/HQ material
and
> posess I think all the official RQ2/3 material concerning
Glorantha, I am
> still in the process of reading and learning from the Pre-Finished
Works,
> (I've seen most of them I think now), and when I see the level of
Gloranthan
> scholarship on this list, and on Glorantha list, I usually feel
quite
> ignorant. I also suspectthere may be more Gloranthan lore I am just
not
> privy to, published in formats I may be unaware of?
>
> I'd love to write for the line, and am used to working to
deadlines, and
> have good reviews for my rpg writing to date, and yet so far have
felt so
> intimidated by my relative lack of knowledge I have not even
considered fan
> publications like zines. Surely this is the real problem with
writing for
> Glorantha?
>
> Incidentally, a few years ago I did click on the "Write for
Glorantha" link
> on the webpage, and fired off an e-mail volunteering to work on ANY
project
> which would take me as a collaborator, or write a pitch, but I
never had a
> response. I shrugged, and concentrated on other lines, as I was not
sure I
> had the requisite Gloranthan lore to provide a good book at that
time.
>
> Still, I'm still interested in writing to support HQ, or
Questworlds, but I
> can't find any way to even apply to assist the Questworlds
project? Is
> Questworlds Issaries now, or Reaching Moon - that is who will
ultimately
> publish it?
>
> Anyway if anyone is at all interested, I have some spare time and
would be
> happy to try. I think some concrete suggestions about how to
pitch, who to,
> and what is expected of authors might do much to provide a fresh
influx of
> writers, but if the market demand is not there, well I suppose
things will
> stay slow. I'm not going to moan about lack of new material, but
I'd love
> to see more, even if I have to write it. :)
>
> All the best
> cj x
>