Still Cleaning

[gypsy1969.livejournal.com]

We cleaned some more this morning and what did I find?

Another Part of the Trilogy by John M. Ford, and I was wondering what else NESFA Press has of his?
and I found
A xerox copy of a manuscript entitled MUNCHKIN: THE ADVENTURES ISSUE ONE: THE PARTY OF THE FIRST PART (He found out I had played the game so he gave it to me to show to my friend darkwolf69 who had introduced Munchkin to me. I wonder if I did?)
So now I'm wondering, did Steve Jackson or someone ever publish that? I forgot who Mike had told me might draw it. It is 20 pages long. I'm wondering what else of Mike's stuff is out there or worse yet... lost.

Comments

[damascene.livejournal.com]

Oh, that made my night, thanks! That book was enormously gratifying to build--there were four of us reading every piece of Mike's short fiction I could find (I still have the binders of photocopies, and all the oddments he sent are tucked into the pockets) and fiercely debating the selections. And the negotiation with Tor, since they had a collection under contract for some future date; and negotiation with Paramount for permission to include Monochrome; and sitting up waaay too late one night on a patio at LAconIII getting toasted with Gail Walotsky while Ron laughed at the two of us and kept pouring champagne and decided to paint an original cover for it (and we came to be friends, too, and that cover hangs on my living room wall, I bought it at the Chicago WFC when Ron hung it in the art show).

The book was part of my reason for inviting Mike to be GoH at Boskone: I didn't know about the pending Tor collection, and I did know that NESFA would publish a GoH collection if Mike would have one since that's standard for NESFA Press, and I wanted a Mike Ford collection somehow. Besides wanting to chair a Boskone with Mike as the GoH, which was a whole 'nother cause for me doing all that work. Worth every bit of effort, both him and the book.

[elisem.livejournal.com]

I am so glad you made that book happen, both you-individually and you-guys-collectively. It is a very fine book.