The contest is closed. Just FYI.

All right, lovely Lisa, be that way! (Lemme get a Jimmy Cagney voice here) See if the Bluesman's gonna bail you out of jail again!

Well, I'll start.

• For one thing, I want Scar-Lip back into the picture. There is at least a short story or a few chapters waiting to happen. That devilishly cute rakosh in the Barrens is just too damn hard to forget about. And speaking of which...

• Re-reading The Tomb now these six years after I first read it, I'm noticing all these throwbacks to Jack's life when he was growing up. My latest example: the new Tor edition paperback, page 272, paragraph 7, as Jack is talking to Kolabati: "'As a kid I saw some weird stuff in the Barrens, but this!'" Please-oh-please-oh-please let there be a YA RJ book set (or at least involving a major scene or three) in the Pine Barrens.

• A follow-up reappearance of Tom, or at least some kind of teasing hint as to where he went. The vanishing act was probably the biggest tease of "something bigger going on," à la Lovecraft, that I've read in recent times.

• Jack goes to Providence, RI (and/or surrounding areas). Okay, okay, so that's a bit of a self-promoting stretch from yours truly, but think about it: it's Lovecraft territory, full of really old buildings and tons of history at every corner. Who knows? Maybe Jack might find something here that has long been of historical or mythological status that has some sort of tie into the Adversary Cycle.

• Jack gets attacked by (or witnesses an attack of) zombies. Seriously - good ol' Rassie loves ressurecting bodies, and it'd be positively sick to watch Jack take down an undead character.

And...well, I guess that's it. If I had other ideas, I can't remember them now. I just couldn't formulate more from these ideas.

What were some of your headless chickens like, fellow readers?

I tried to think of something but every time I came up with an idea it sounded like something Jack could fix anyway.

I tried to think of something but every time I came up with an idea it sounded like something Jack could fix anyway.

Everything I thought of was either something Jack could do, or something Jack wouldn't do. I figured that it would be the client that may make Jack take a particular job.

I've been so busy this summer, I never had time to even think about it.

Ken V.

I've been so busy this summer, I never had time to even think about it.

Ken V.

I'm with you on this, Ken. I don't have the kind of time it takes to plot and plan for anyone other than myself. Besides, I'd rather be pleasantly (or violently) suprised by all things RJ.

I'm with you on this, Ken. I don't have the kind of time it takes to plot and plan for anyone other than myself. Besides, I'd rather be pleasantly (or violently) suprised by all things RJ.

Oh, I could come up with all kinds of diabolical devices -- like gas bombs for instance -- but in four trips, I've ended up spending more than two months in Colorado dealing with my late brother's affairs.

Not to mention trying to get caught up on things when I got back from those trips.

With all the bureaucratic Shuffle involved, it took 43 days from the time they found his body to the time I was finally able to get him buried. And I still have some long distance calls to make.

Ken V.