[LNH] The Tribulations of Kid Review #3

Andrew Perron pwerdna at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 23:26:20 PDT 2010


On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:39:32 +0000 (UTC), Tom Russell wrote:

> On Sep 8, 3:55 am, Andrew Perron <pwer... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> [8FOLD] My Father's Son #1: "It's A Start"
>>
>> "My Father's Son is Saxon Brenton's first title in the Eightfold
>> universe, and, I believe, the first Eightfold title written by anyone
>> other than the founders, Tom Russell and Jamie Rosen.
> 
> In both cases the first title-- title in this case being a continuing
> series with one author-- but it's actually Saxon's second story for
> Eightfold.  The first appeared in the first (and, so far, only) issue
> of JOLT CITY ADVENTURES.  

You know, I remember reading and enjoying that, and yet it completely
vanished from my mind when I was racking my mind for anyone else who'd
written in the imprint.

> The story behind that is I solicited stories
> for a JOLT CITY ANNUAL-- the idea is that each story would cover a
> different period of Martin Rock's life.  The problem is that, while
> several authors signed up, called dibs on an era, and sent me plots,
> only Saxon actually wrote the story. :-)
> 
> And so, a year or two later, we published it as JOLT CITY ADVENTURES #
> 1.

Ahhhhhhhh.  I wonder what this means for the chances of seeing Jolt City
Adventures #2?

>   Personally,
>> Saxon is one of my favorite writers (Limp-Asparagus Lad was one of the
>> series that introduced me to the LNH and RACC), so I was excited about
>> this from the moment I first heard."
> 
> Me too! ;-)

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, woo!


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