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I'm not sure if people are familliar with the online roleplaying code system of MUSH (Multi User Shared Hallucination) but apparently a lot of Thursday Next fans are.
Being a coder and a die-hard fan, people came to me to ask for the approval of Jasper Fforde and/or his agents, or even just the writers of Whatever Next.
Hence this message. Would anyone be interested in - or in the author's case, allowing - a Nextian roleplaying game? I can't take credit for the idea, but I'm offering it as something I'd like to do along with a small base of friends, that welcomes author approval before we start.
Anyone seriously interested in the game can go ahead and email me, or reply or whatever, because I mentionned to a few people I'd just posted this and about ten of them had an AIM version of a spazz attack.
They don't understand this "author approval" thing too clearly.
As an author myself, I have quite strong views on copyright. I've sometimes said that I like a CD that a friend owns and turned down offers to have a copy burned for me. They're getting the message now
I should e-mail Mr. Fforde directly if I were you. There's a mail-to link on his website.
We're very loyal to Jasper here; he's been very good to us, and I think we'd like to keep it that way. I don't think too many people on this Fforum would be terribly keen on anything not approved of.
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: April 15, 2003 03:31PM
Jasper's pretty good about answering his email, too. Although, currently, he is on a book tour, so it could take a bit for him to get back to you. But I would definitely ask! Can't hurt! The worst he could say is no.