Oh...by all that's holy that was a hilarious bit of back and forth between Buffy and Giles when Willow mentioned Yulia Dryanushkina was a retired subbie. KRAD's got the groove down nicely!

BlueEyedBrigadier | December 27, 20:32 CET

Keith's a good writer. I hope to get to it... once my holiday reading arrives... any day now... holidays are almost over... Seriously, I was pleased with the Serenity novelization -- more than I thought I would be. I ordered another of Keith's (the title escapes me at the moment) and expect it any day now.

WhoIsOmega? | December 28, 01:36 CET

Most of it was good, and then all of a sudden it was important for us to know where Willow's 3 laptop cables terminated?

ohbejoyful | December 28, 05:27 CET

Should anyone else choose to comment on the excerpt, please be polite. Keith, aka krad, is a Whedonesquer and posts sometimes.

WhoIsOmega? | December 28, 06:00 CET

BlueEyedBrigadier, thanks so much!

April, out of curiosity, was the other title you ordered my recently released Buffy book Blackout? *grin*

ohbejoyful, that was in there as a reminder that this took place in 1999, hence the slightly archaic laptop setup. Having said that, I think that might actually have been cut from the final version -- that excerpt is derived from my original manuscript file....

krad | December 28, 07:38 CET

Yes krad, it was Blackout! After reading something recently, I went to Amazon and ordered it. I had hoped to have it while visiting my family at Christmas. (I just had to check the title on Amazon.) I'm sure it will be waiting for me when I get home this weekend. So I got kind of excited when I read somewhere you had written a Diablo novel. Sadly, none were available on Amazon. At least not that I could find. Diablo was a guilty pleasure of mine for a couple/few years. I'd read a Diablo novel if you wrote it!

WhoIsOmega? | December 28, 08:48 CET

Actually, Diablo is the only one of the three Blizzard Entertainment franchises I haven't written for. *chuckle* I wrote a World of Warcraft novel called Cycle of Hatred, which came out this past February, and a StarCraft: Ghost novel called Nova, which just came out.

Hope you enjoy Blackout!

krad | December 28, 17:51 CET

I liked Blackout quite a bit, it's really head and shoulders above the other Buffy novels. I'll be grabbing Deathless, of course.

Ocular | December 28, 22:11 CET

Hey, krad! I'll be getting this one as well. Just keep 'em comin', dude! And thanks for giving me more of the 'verse--'cause I miss it a lot.

And, in general, though I frequently repeat myself about this, you all should know that krad's 'verse books really are "head & shoulders above the other Buffy books." Same for Go Ask Malice, by an author whose name always escapes me--for which I apologize big time. So I can safely recommend all of these to all of you. Go forth, buy and enjoy!

SangChaud | December 29, 07:29 CET

Robert Joseph Levy is the author of Go Ask Malice. And thanks! *smile*

krad | December 29, 18:28 CET

Thanks to you, krad! And my apologies to Robert Joseph Levy. For some reason, when it comes to his name, I get mental hiccups. But the two of you have the 'verse nailed, and I love your books. Sadly, I can't say that about all the 'verse books. But yours and Levy's and Golden's Pretty Maids are ones I can wholeheartedly recommend to anyone missing the 'verse.

SangChaud | December 30, 01:30 CET