RE: Author Status
09-08-2021, 07:35 AM (This post was last modified: 09-08-2021, 07:36 AM by Bob Schroeck.)
09-08-2021, 07:35 AM (This post was last modified: 09-08-2021, 07:36 AM by Bob Schroeck.)
And I resurrect this thread...
Yesterday, I took it into my head to stub out an All The Tropes page (in a text file) for Tales of Ranma and Ranko by Jack Staik and Lady Tesser. Once again for our younger readers, this was an absolutely epic (and high-quality) Ranma story, started in 1999 and abandoned circa 2001/2002 when the authors just up and disappeared from the Net. While looking up links to the various installments to include in the stub file I decided to see if I couldn't do what I did with Twister at the start of this thread and find Jack and his wife Jillian (who was Lady Tesser). I knew they'd gotten married in the late 1990s -- it was trumpeted on the copies of their website -- I knew a couple of email addresses and I knew their real names.
I think maybe I found a clue to why they disappeared.
Jack's still around, he lives in Montana, and still uses the same email address as he did in his writing days. But those "personal info" sites that are a dime a dozen? None of them associate him with a Jillian Parks or Jillian Staik. In fact, outside of a photographer in Southern California who I think might be a bit too young to be the right Jillian, I can't find any sign of her at all. I can't help but wonder if something happened to her in 2001 or 2002, and he just shut down as a writer since so much of what he did was in collaboration with her.
I don't have the guts or the chutzpah to email him and ask.
Yesterday, I took it into my head to stub out an All The Tropes page (in a text file) for Tales of Ranma and Ranko by Jack Staik and Lady Tesser. Once again for our younger readers, this was an absolutely epic (and high-quality) Ranma story, started in 1999 and abandoned circa 2001/2002 when the authors just up and disappeared from the Net. While looking up links to the various installments to include in the stub file I decided to see if I couldn't do what I did with Twister at the start of this thread and find Jack and his wife Jillian (who was Lady Tesser). I knew they'd gotten married in the late 1990s -- it was trumpeted on the copies of their website -- I knew a couple of email addresses and I knew their real names.
I think maybe I found a clue to why they disappeared.
Jack's still around, he lives in Montana, and still uses the same email address as he did in his writing days. But those "personal info" sites that are a dime a dozen? None of them associate him with a Jillian Parks or Jillian Staik. In fact, outside of a photographer in Southern California who I think might be a bit too young to be the right Jillian, I can't find any sign of her at all. I can't help but wonder if something happened to her in 2001 or 2002, and he just shut down as a writer since so much of what he did was in collaboration with her.
I don't have the guts or the chutzpah to email him and ask.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....