Buffy The Vampire Slayer

KRAD’s Inaccurate Guide to Life - I’m writin’ a Buffy book! And it’s one I’ve wanted to write since the fifth season....

The proposal was approved by Fox this morning, so I can finally talk about it. This was one of the July tie-in proposals. Called Blackout, the book is currently scheduled for July 2006, and will focus on the character of Nikki Wood, a 1970s-era Slayer from New York City. We first saw her in "Fool for Love," where Spike killed her on a moving subway in 1977, and we found out more about her in the seventh season when we met her now-grown-up son Robin, and saw her again in flashback in "Lies My Parents Told Me."

I grew up in NYC in the 1970s, and remember the summer of 1977 in particular very well (the Yankees in a pennant race with newly arrived superstar Reggie Jackson, the blackout, the Son of Sam murders, the city still a fiscal disaster area), and it’s the perfect backdrop for a Slayer’s adventures. The novel will feature Nikki, her three-year-old son Robin, her Watcher Bernard Crowley, and both Spike and Drusilla. Plus there’ll be a Sunnydale frame featuring some familiar faces. *grin*

I’m gonna start on this in October.....