West Virginia Coal Miners in the 30 Years War

By: Gorg Huff, Paula Goodlett

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A few years ago Eric and I talked about doing a 1632 WarSpell crossover. The idea was that a bunch of gamers playing WarSpell would set their game in a copy of the 1632 universe, but with a little bit of magic. Paula and I wrote the book and then Eric decided that he didn't want to do the crossover.
The story was fine and Ring of Fire Press would have published it, but he wanted it changed so that it was no longer a 1632 crossover. That was because he didn't want people starting to think that this was part of the 1632 Canon,
At the time I had been thinking that I would have to change everything and in essence write a whole new book. I was also a little upset that he decided he didn't want to do it after the book was written, so I didn't make the changes, and it sat on a shelf. Well in a computer file anyway.
After Eric passed, I remembered the crossover, and started to wonder how much I would need to change to satisfy Eric's insistence that it not be confused with 1632.
When I went back and looked at it I realized the changes didn't need to be that extensive. Eric's concern had been that it would be confusing to readers. That some of them would think that magic had started working in the 1632 universe. Changing the names, and a few details, would take care of that.
I would need it to be a fictional book not 1632 but something else. I went back to "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" and changed the name of the fictional first book to "West Virginia Coal Miners in the 30 Years War".
The goal is not to suggest that the setting isn't taken from the 1632 books but simply to make it clear that this world isn't in the 1632 universe or the shards multiverse, but is a WarSpell universe based on a fictional book by a fictional author. Not 1632 canon.
I can't change the setting i.e. the 30 years war or a small town from the future. I can change the year they left so that the Globe of Light can transfer the small town of Marienville from 2010 not Grantville from 2000. That puts it after 9/11 and means that by the time of the Globe of Light there are a lot of cellphones and other computer gear. It can arrive a bit earlier too, so it arrives in 1630 not 1631.
So Paula and I went through and made enough changes so that no one could think this was the 1632 universe. So that no one will think that Becky is a witch or that Mike was kept in the dark by his wife for years after the Ring of Fire and that sort of thing. At the same time this is very much based on Eric's 1632 Universe and we are in no way trying to deny that.

So with the kind consent of Eric's estate this is
WarSpell: West Virginia Coal Miners in the Thirty Years' War