[CRussel]

Originally Posted by artifact

I can't find my local copies of Roving Gambler, and Code of Honor and I don't have the Cat's Job anthology. Could someone please give a blurb of what these were about?

(I don't have discretionary income right now, when I do I promise I'll buy Constellation 3 so Steve and Sharon get paid for their hard work.)

Code of Honor:

Spoiler:

This story exists because we were plotting a completely different story, and needed a character to . . . do something . . . for the main character. That secondary character came with an utterly fascinating back-story. So fascinating, in fact, that he got his own story, set in the aftermath of I Dare. And yes, we are still planning to write the story that spawned this one, so . . . watch the skies!

Roving Gambler

Spoiler:

At times we, as coauthors, talk about and know so much about what’s going on in the universe that we forget that we haven’t written it down. “Roving Gambler” came from that abundance of information—dealing with story stuff that we knew but hadn’t quite managed to get into a novel or another short story yet. We have a lot of characters, and they are all involved—even if we haven’t had time to write them in. So here’s a story featuring Quin—we knew that Quin was isolated, we knew that the arrival of Korval on Surebleak was not going to be easy on the clan and on Pat Rin. Something, of course, was going to have to happen. “Roving Gambler” helps get Quin happening.

And King of the Cats is an old, old one. Not really canon. But the blurb for it:

Spoiler:

In 1985, when this story was written, our joint writing career consisted of two published stories about Kinzel, an inept wizard who improbably held a Staff of True Power, and a science fiction novel entitled Agent of Change, which was making the rounds. At that time, Steve made part of our living by running weekend chess tournaments. So it was that Sharon was left alone one weekend, with only a typewriter and a ream of paper for company. The result of these circumstances was a non-canon story that mixed two universes with nothing in common, save a belief in Balance.