Maybe the bit about "errors" does sound a little bald.
I think it might be kinder to put it in the context of all the
books. How about something such as:
"As with all Joe Dever's Lone Wolf gamebooks, we have been able
to take advantage of feedback from the sizeable fan community for
the books, and correct any little bugs in the rules and add explanatory footnotes
for sections which sometimes caused confusion for players".
- I dunno, that's a bit waffly too :)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Osborne" <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Project Aon" <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 11:10 AM
Subject: [projectaon] Ian Page Contact Letter Draft
Hi all
See what you think of this text. is it too waffly, do you think? Bear in mind, we originally contacted him in 2001, so I felt the need to explain why it's taken so long. >_<
I've had a bit of feedback querying the sentence "Now we have finally turned in an error-free (we hope!) version of each of the Grey Star books, we are in a position where we would certainly be interested in making such works available, if you are still amenable to it." Does that sound as though I'm being disparaging about his original writing?
Aside from that, unless anyone else has any comments, this is probably the message that will be sent to Ian.
-- Simon Osborne
Dear Mr Page
I am writing to you on behalf of Project Aon, a voluntary online group who are republishing the Lone Wolf adventures online. We contacted you some time ago with regard to the "World of Lone Wolf" (aka Grey Star) adventures you wrote. It was always our intention to contact you again once the books had been made available; however several snags occurred that caused us some major delays in doing so.
We initially had a great deal of trouble contacting the illustrator Paul Bonner, and because of this, the first three Grey Star books we released were missing all his illustrations. Once we had contacted him and received his approval, we revisited these three books to add in his artwork before tackling Book 4: War of the Wizards. By the time we had published War of the Wizards, a large number of problems had been reported with the first three books, some of which could also be applied to Book 4, so we had to almost immediately go back and revisit them to fix these major problems. Add in a complete redesign of the website, and that adds up to a lot of time. It has now been some months since we were forced to do this, and there have been no more problems reported, so we thought it was now time to contact you regarding the four books.
The links to the four books are here:
1. Grey Star the Wizard http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/GreyStarTheWizard
2. The Forbidden City http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/TheForbiddenCity
3. Beyond the Nightmare Gate http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/BeyondTheNightmareGate
4. War of the Wizards: http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/WarOfTheWizards
At some point in the future we also hope to make PDF editions of these books available.
In your original E-mail to us, you mentioned that you had original, unpublished works of both Grey Star and the Shianti, and also other fantasy-themed fiction, that you were interested in sending us copies of to make available on the site. Now we have finally turned in an error-free (we hope!) version of each of the Grey Star books, we are in a position where we would certainly be interested in making such works available, if you are still amenable to it. (We also took the liberty of reproducing "The Passing of the Shianti" you wrote for a Lone Wolf Club Newsletter after Section 360 of War of the Wizards, and this brought considerable interest from Lone Wolf fans around the world.)
If you still feel you would like us to make such work available, please contact Project Aon via the website <http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Contact> or mail me direct at this E-mail address, and we can try to hammer out the details.
Once again, on behalf of Project Aon, thank you for your generosity in allowing your work to be made available.
Kind regards,
-- Simon Osborne (on behalf of Project Aon)