Novel Crossovers

[Cookiez_N_Potionz]

I've always been fond of crossovers in TV shows, but I noticed not a lot of people do crossovers in their writing. So far I only know one example: Rick Riordan.

Anyway, since I've been a fan of crossovers I would like to do this with my stories one day.

Um, what's your opinion on crossovers in general?

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Hawt

 

[Bobple]

I've got no strong positive or negative opinions.

For novels, I've seen authors crossovers some of their own stories. And those can be fun. Most of the time though it is just in light passing.

When it comes authors crossing over to other authors novels. I've seen that happen only a few times, and when it does it is usually just in a light non-cannon moment. They can be fun, but is pretty much the standard.

I have had the idea of writing a few stories that were specifically in the one world that would crossover before. But haven't gone through with it, too busy and limited time.

 

[Nolff]

I've always been fond of crossovers in TV shows, but I noticed not a lot of people do crossovers in their writing. So far I only know one example: Rick Riordan.

Anyway, since I've been a fan of crossovers I would like to do this with my stories one day.

Um, what's your opinion on crossovers in general?

Epik.

And fyi, I am a fanfiction writer.

I'll soon get a fanfic I made have a crossover with another fanfic I made for the sake of fun.

 

[expentio]

Most of my stories actually play in the same world. So while I don't have crossovers yet, they'll eventually come and yet there are references. Though, as it's its own named fantasy world there's not much of a chance for crossovers with other franchises to happen. On the other hand, I already gave Saril permission to use my world and am generally open.

Though, who's basically cut out for this kind of event would be Iori from my novel "Eldritch".
My adolescent eldritch goddess whose panic attacks when things again get too crazy for her are probably the greatest threat to the multiverse (it's a complicated dynamic). As she's capable of dimension-hopping she could basically show up wherever. Personally, I even like to imagine her showing up in different franchises.
Her future versions are going to be a lot more aloft in mentality, more playful, and willing to play along. From Chapter 153 -155 there's an appearance of a version of future Iori, yet this one is basically the absolute end. The normal future Iori would rather be somewhere between her angsty current self and the omega version that showed up.
Iori's general thing is that she's a ridiculously powerful being that can manifest everywhere, growing every kind of form or horror, but has very human sensibilities.
So if anyone is interested and would handle her in a sensible manner, I wouldn't mind having her being used. You may send me a message.

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

Crossovers tend to be done with a light touch, usually in an easter-egg fashion, like the way Brandon Sanderson does it with the character Hold in many of his Cosmere novels and the way Stephen King does it a few times in his Dark Tower-related novels like Insomnia and 'Salem's Lot (retroactively) through his inclusion of Father Callahan in his Dark Tower books. From Stephen King, specifically, outside of the Dark Tower connections, I've read a scene were the MC of 11/22/63 (Jake Epping/George Amberson) has a brief encounter with It from King's novel, It. After reading that book, I went and got It.

 

[beast_regards]

They can't.

At least, professional writers can't.

Their work is usually owned by the publishing company and they won't allow such a breach of the copyright law.

Hence, authors only reference their own books, usually as the part of the shared universe thing. Stephen King comes into mind, even though in this case it is a matter of being too lucrative a contract to lose, and is given quite a leeway in what he could write.

 

[corruption]

Look up fanfic sites and check out the crossover sections.
I'm trying to find a Harry Potter Fanfic where he is raised by Hyacinth Bucket from Keeping Up Appearances (with Hyacinth, her sisters, Lilly and her sister Petunia all being from a squib branch of House Black. Keeps with their naming convention of celestial names, or plants.)

 

[CharlesEBrown]

On my hard drive I have the following "universes".

1. The "True Blue" reality (posted at Royal Road) universe which ties into some other stories primarily through the presence of a pair of FBI Investigators who wander in and out of the stories - born out of a shared use project in an Amateur Press Alliance in the 90s (APAs were pretty much "Substack before the Internet" - groups of people linked by one or more interests, writing newsletters about those interests, and sometimes selling copies to offset printing and mailing expenses; the most successful APA I know of - and one I was never part of - was "Alarums and Excursions").
2. The "Sparrowverse" which is unfolding here (and really hails back to an RPG module I wrote in the 80s - and which partially led to my involvement in the APA mentioned above).
3. The "stand-alones" - one of which could potentially cross into ANY universe due to the nature of The Ways of Bel-Shar, "Between Worlds." but the rest are all one-shot stories that vary so much in tone and content tying them into another one would be problematic at best.
4. The universe as presented by H. P. Lovecraft (most people who write horror, including Stephen King himself, have written short stories or novels set more or less there)

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

1. The universe as presented by H. P. Lovecraft (most people who write horror, including Stephen King himself, have written short stories or novels set more or less there)

Oh, man, can't believe that guy slipped my mind. He was one of the few authors that encouraged the use of his Cthulu universe back in the good-old pulp-fiction days, and he even took the idea of the Yellow King from Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow short story collection and made it his own.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

The late C. J. Henderson did some great crossover stuff involving pulp characters (as far as I could tell, he got permission from the stakeholders to use the characters primarily so that they did not fall out of copyright). Had one of his Tarantula (Master of Men!) novels, and one where he brought H. P. Lovecraft's New Orleans detective LaGrasse (from The Call of Cthulhu) together with The Domino Lady (one of the more murderous Pulp Heroes), The Green Lama (a very powerful psychic guy with a nearly useless body - essentially a god in his own mansion and nearly useless outside of it), and The Black Bat (who was inspired by the same opera and pulp novels that created Batman, and himself was direct inspiration for both Two-Face AND Daredevil years later) against the Cthulhu Mythos. He also did a lot of Kolchak stories (including ones that brought him into the Mythos - one of which is the other book of his I own - and ones that introduced him to various pulp characters), a few novels featuring The Shadow and a bunch of other stuff, including a few with original characters too, but he seemed to like writing the pulp heroes, slightly updated, more than making his own.
Actually was a roommate with the guy at a convention, a year or two before his passing. Nice guy.