Helloo,,,, I just listened to the Magnus Protocol season 1 Q&A. Would you ever consider selling your Alchemy Notes as merch/a companion novel?

At this point, it would probably have spoilers, but when the show is done, could that logistically be a thing?

Also thanks for releasing season two on the 27th! Happy birthday to me 🤩

So this actually a really interesting question because it partly comes down to my perceptions of what is and is not appropriate content for sale.

So, generally speaking in media we try to repackage “creative exhaust” where possible. That’s just a gross way of saying try to find ways to make the bits that don’t make it to release still useful.

Selling a series bible is a really interesting idea that I don’t think could ever happen unless it was heavily redacted due to confidential info on processes (it is a technical document after all) and due to spoilers since we also explicitly flag spin off opportunities, bonus content hooks etc. That’s a shame as its a HUGE amount of really interesting work to just sit on a shelf.

There is however a second layer to it. All my work on Alchemy is itself based on other people’s (mostly historian’s) work. It would need full academic citing and reformatting into a more consumer friendly format before it could even be used, not to mention paying licensing/ commissioning images etc. That’s a lot of work and I wouldn’t want to do it without all that because at that point we’d just be part of the problem when it comes to appropriation of work.

All that said, I definitely want to share aspects of the bible when we are all done if only because some of it is really interesting but I doubt it will be in a formally published format.