The Battle of Ebulon: A Shared Anthology

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I’ve always loved crossovers; the idea of characters created from two or more minds coming together in one story has always excited me. I cannot remember the first crossover story I read/watched (although an episode of Power Rangers where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guest starred comes to mind.) I have no doubt it has something to do with my love of manga/comic books. What you mean there is a single comic book that features both Spiderman and Batman? How could I not get excited about such a story? Crossovers enable writers to tell a unique story with familiar characters together, that a single author simply can’t do on their own.

I was suffering from a particularly bad case of writer’s vulnerability. I didn’t really have writer’s block per se, it was just I couldn’t get excited about any ideas that I came up with. Like most writers I began thinking about what I wanted to accomplish with my storytelling. Now apart from the obvious dreams of success, one of my goals was to collaborate with another author and write a crossover between our novels.

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