Folks, There is NO OFFICIAL WORD of Steve 'being in the running' for publishing Firefly. None. It is an unsubstantiated rumor. I did check all the forums [on Simon & Schuster] for news. "Firefly" sometimes brings up people talking about the series or the movie - but that's it. http://bbs.simonsays.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=19;t=000490#000000 Patience. But Steve enjoys reading the Firefly manuscript at cons. Wearing his Wash t-shirt. --- A.S. Zanoni Personal Assistant to Steven Brust Steven's Travel & Event Schedule: http://www.angelfire.com/fang/dreamcafe_chica > Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 22:30:35 EDT > From: FRIEDA2133 at aol.com > Subject: Re: Confirmed Dragaera track at Opus-posted around > To: dragaera at dragaera.info > > The following info is now on http://www.fireflyfans.net/ > > http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=20499 > > And www.serenitymovie.org > > http://www.serenitymovie.org/browncoats/forums/index.php?showtopic=5986 > > And the old Yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stevenbrust > > Steven Brust's Firefly Novel--We will get to read it! > > On Steven Brust Firefly novel: > "Steve is in the running to be an official writer in the Firefly universe, > but no matter who gets chosen we'll all still get to see what he has in mind as > he has promised his fans that in > the event his Firefly novel is NOT published, he'll publish it as fanfic." > > I received the following info in an email from Steven Brust's mailing list > http://dragaera.info/ on 5/7/2006. > > about Opus Fantasy Arts Festival > May 19-21 2006 at Hyatt DTC Denver, CO > http://www.opusfest.com/ > > If you don't want to read it all, edit find or search for the word Firefly. ... > 4:00 PM: Fan Fiction - Thunder Pass > Fans writing fiction based in someone else's universe is a big thing in > fandom. While most writers can often talk to their fans about fan fiction > written in their worlds Steve can also tell you about his own experience and > techniques when writing fan fiction. Steve is in the running to be an > official writer in the Firefly universe, but no matter who gets chosen we'll > all still get to see what he has in mind as he has promised his fans that in > the event his Firefly novel is NOT published, he'll publish it as fanfic." >