Well, the pack is back. I'm sure I don't normally get this many books in the mail, really. I'll do this in two parts, for reasons that might become obvious.

Yesterday we got Contributor Copies of the new Demon supplement, Damned and Deceived, which we're very happy with. My rules for character creation have been shaved down a bit (that just might be my own over-enthusiasm when it comes to detail, something I must watch in my current assignment), but come across fine. The archetypes (oops, Eden speak, they're templates. Or something) which we both worked on all look good.

My fiction is pretty much all there, and I'm proud of it. I think it captures the confusion, pain and aspirations of a human enthralled to a demonic being, all wrapped up in a plot which manages to illustrate the concepts and rules, and wouldn't be too out of place in an actual gaming session. Kewl. There used to be a murder mystery of sorts wrapped up in it as well, but the editor did a fine thing by nipping that in the bud. I'm sure my text is still a bit jumpy (and losing some of the scene breaks doesn't help), but I think this is all a hint that fiction is what I'd prefer to be doing (as if I didn't already know).

Meanwhile, I get illos as well, which are almost uniformly good. It turns out my protagonist is a sort of 20-something Harry Potter/Tim Hunter type, which is fair enough. In one picture especially (p44 -- and I do know no-one else has a copy yet), he looks uncannily like a young Stephen King, which is also kewl.