Dru, Steinbeck and the Book of Deer

  Foreword Fargo was written in May 2024. At the time, it was a last desperate attempt to alert Buffydom to the lost possibility encapsulated within the Dru Quartet. The overlooked or aborted story arc I'd seen in that eureka moment fourteen years before , written into the Quartet's latter two chapters. This was before I finally found a blog platform I could work, before Juliet Landau's podcast scandal and Sarah Michelle Gellar got the idea of continuing Buffy the Vampire Slayer . This isn't meant to be a jealous critique. Ms. Gellar is an extremely talented actress and has assembled a crack production team. I am sure Ryan Keira Armstrong has great ability and potential. However, from my perspective it's as if they're all groping their way though Carlsbad Caverns without a flashlight. As if they don't actually know which way to go. And maybe I do. Maybe the route I've known and walked all these years is the one which was really meant to be. I'm not...

Fitting, somehow, that it finished and began in the church where I was named Anthony. Differently Wired fills out the tale of our last ten years, which began with a vampire flatmate (Drusilla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) whose story had to be told ( Drusilla’s Roses ), went on to an email correspondence with a Hollywood star (Juliet Landau) and led to a once-in-a-lifetime trek across America to that violent city on the edge of forever, Los Angeles. Then there was the publication of Dear Miss Landau (DML) and creation of DML’s stage musical, the scripting of three sequels to the original Drusilla’s Roses , resurrection and successful publication of my Great Scottish Novel, The Legend of John Macnab (second sequel to John Buchan’s original work), publication of eighty-odd blogs and articles for the Huffington Post UK et al ., seven meetings with Miss Landau at comic-cons ... And other treks. In 2012, 2013 and 2016. Providing traces of answers to the questions some asked after I me...