In honor of pixel-stained technopeasant day, I’ve posted part of a never-to-be published novel of mine. I ghost-wrote it for a celebrity whose name I cannot divulge, but the deal fell apart. (Causing great poverty—for me, but alas not him.)
So without further ado, here are the first two chapters of Crossover Dreams.
Feel free to guess the celeb’s name—I will neither confirm nor deny . . .

Yay, I’m the first comment! (if I type fast.)
That was an okay story, actually. I wasn’t expecting to like it because basketball’s not my thing. Chapter 2 was good.
The weird thing is, your style seemed kind of leeched from that. Sorry, if that’s offending, but it seemed like some editing guy made you write generically.
I have no idea who you were writing it for.
This has been a long and rather meaningless post.
Ummm…yeah. *shuffles out shyly*
Are in Australia or the US cause here it is the 23 of April.
I have NO earthly idea who that was written for. But it’s a shame it’ll never be published…*whisper* answer my email, scott-la…
i have no idea. you said celeb so i really dont kno. can you give us a hint? is it a us or aussie celeb?
Yes, Laine-wa has a point there, it is a shame it’s not gonna be published… ='(
I really like the style of writing, but sports aren’t really my thing, unfortunately.
Still like it, though.
i think that would make a good book i want to now what happens… you should post the rest of the book!! lol 😛
i have not a clue as to who the story was written for… but i would love to have some one write a story about mee!! lol taht would be a pretty stupid story with no meaning lol 😛
this is randome… but its sooo warm out!! i lvoe it it was really nice out this weekend and my freind was over and i was driving the four wheeler and my sis was on the back with my dog (taloula) and i did this really sharp turn and the four wheeler went on the side with 2 wheeles on the ground and 2 in the air and she started to like fall and i didnt now what to do (i dont weigh that much so i couldnt just lean to put it back on all fours) lol so when we stoped taloula jumped off cuz she was soo scard it was funny lol 🙂
7th post? thats the best ive done before. Ya, that sucks it wont be published!
Sorry, but I couldn’t read this since I got distracted by the protag’s name. Jason Taylor! Jeez louise…
I prefer to keep thinking you ghostwrote for Tom Clancy, but I’m quite sure this wasn’t going to be a Clancy novel. Though his people might be called Jason Taylor too, I suppose.
OK, so I steeled myself, and chapter two is interesting! Pity the celeb-who-wasn’t-clancy flaked out on you, I quite enjoy Teresa, even if I haven’t the first clue about basketball.
I liked it! I’m not really a sports person, but this looked good. Thanks for the post!
I liked it! I’m not really a sports person, but this looked good. Thanks for the post!
Oh. I have not the slightest idea who this might be ghost written for. At all.
I have no idea who you ghost wrote this for… but it was pretty good. The only problem was that I have no clue about basketball!! But It still was pretty good!!!!!
wow i have no idea but i do have a book that reminds me of peep… well more like tld(as scoot says) its by stephen king’s CELL. bum bum bummmmmmm its graphic and violent yeaaaah yea so you should read it
Isn’t it R.L. Stine Goosebumps books?
Okay, i don’t know what that is from, but haven’t you done a few goosebumps books? i thought i read that somewhere.
I have no idea what this was for. I don’t read books with basketball in them, so I really wouldn’t know.
i dont really play sports like on a team but i play them with like friends and stuff… and i do get some of the stuff in basketball… a way lot better then football!! lol 😛 and i think im pretty good but i couldnt play 1. cuz i was in gym and we were playing basketball and i broke my finger, and 2. cuz i didnt get my physical in time so yea
and i think it would make a very good story and scott you should finish writting it and pubish it that would be totally fawsome!!! yeah
also how is Extras coming along?? i hope your not stressing to much but i dont think you are because you have been blogging a lot!! yeppe for bloging!! lol wow 🙂
Yola Alexa and Capt! I’m a huge..can you guess??………………..if you guess Soccer, WRONG! I’ll give you three clues Hint-i dont wear shoes while doing this sport…………Gymnastics?? NOPE!
Hint – It’s not really THAT popular….
Hint – big Olympic Sport!
That was really good! I love basketball (pretty much any sport that involves breathing), so it hooked me!
When you have some time on your hands (if you ever have ‘time’), I would defintely consider carrying on the project.
post script. I just finished Peeps. Loved It. Starting The Last Days tommorow!
OMG! I LUVED THOSE BOOKS!
Woot! I’ve jumped on board!
http://mstar-the-demon.livejournal.com/
There is something incredibly sexy about the way you write. I’d snatch this up in a heart beat if it were ever published!
yo shan im gunna guess track runner?? or cross coutry?? thats my guess lol i used to play a sport can you guess…. 3 hints
1. it requires running
2. it has a different name in some other countries
3. you need some kind of equpitment
ok their hint 2 kind of gives it away lol but i couldnt think of anything else to say so yea
Alexa..i said no shoes are required for the sport i do…^_^ Lets see, you obviously play soccer, cuz it’s called football or footie in England.
OMG
lol yea shan your right!! lol and if you DONT need shoes then is it swimming??
and im looking for a 13 letter word… that means something cool (or fool) lol because i just got this pretty fawesome braclet and its silver and i need to name it… and i cant find a good enofe name… i did find one word but it has the ing on the end so i dont thing it will count….
Scintillating- it means like bright dazzling shiny 🙂
yea and thats about it tee-hee so any ideas please tell me 🙂 lol
yup! I swim! bingo! I like Transorbital..but thats from the story. lol! I like Scintillating..and it should count..right? Hmmm..
Scintillating totally counts. Dess used that name on the microphone stand. Resplendantly Scintillating Illustrations.
Oh yeah! Uhg…i thought i had one but its only twelve! lol! Disreputable…arg!
fool… i guess im a pretty good guesser… lol kidding
and i dont remember Dess using that word but thats what im naming my braclet… and thanks!! lol 🙂
o yea now i remeber it was in the first one and she was talking about how she just got done with the carvings and every thing… wow
Sports aren’t really my thing, but if you published it I’d read it, Scott.
Okay, 13-letter words…disillusioned, deliriousness, misunderstood, and refrigerators. That’s all I can come up with. I feel brain-dead today.
did you know that technopleasant is a thirteen letter word? just saying.
incorruptable technological dismantlement
ok thanks for the 13 letter words… buts whats the meanings?? lol jk u dont have to look them up lol and i named it scintillating!! yeah:) lol
oh man my smily didnt work after yeah… i mean 🙂 their much better!! yeah!! lol
omg, ppls! 2day i came up with thirteen thirteen-lettered words, how weird is that??
whoops, sorry ppls, that comment came from me, Shan..idk, that was very odd… Buffy is my friends thingy..name..w/e..and her name popped up on my computure..thats SO weird! lol!
lol its all good… lol one my name went back to my old name one time… and what are your 13 lettered words??
Aw, I’m too late to comment on the AWESOMENESS of the new “Peeps” and “The Last Days” covers. Boo-hoo 🙁
As for “Crossover Dreams” I really have no idea who it was ghost-written for. Not even the slightest idea. Except maybe that it was written for Capt. but somehow I doubt it…
-Topaz
Ah! Sorry! I know everyone (including me) hates double posts so I’ll make this quick…
Haddy-la:
Oh my gosh I loooooove CELL! Such a good book though not very PEEPSish. But it is gory. So anyone who is reading this who isn’t Haddy-la should read it. If they like gory bloody stuff. That’s gross. So…
Okay, that’s all. Sorry (again!!!)
-Topaz
i think u ghost wrote for Steven King.
nevermind i take that back.
Great first chapters!!!I wish i could read more.Who the heck did you write for???Ray Romano?That was really random but “Everybody loves Raymond”just came on.I hate that show.
I can’t sit through sport stories. They just confuse me.
cool story… even though at first i thought kerry was a girl (well, James’s girlfriend in the Cherub series, by robert muchamore is called kerry).
no idea who it was ghostwritten for, though.
lol today is my friends emilys birthday!! 🙂 she is now 13!!!!! so yeppe for emily everyone!!! 😛
and i dont care who the story was written for… and how can you hate raymond?? he is so efing tall and the show is pretty funny to!! lol but i shouldnt say anything about tall people cuz im 5’6 and im 14 so im pretty tall for my age!! 🙁 but it has its advantages and disadvantages!! but everything has that so yea… any way sorry for rambiling lol 🙂 but thats alexa for you!!
o yea… shan do you have an AIM screen name?? if so can you give it to me so we can talk on aim… and jamies?? lol that would be really totally fawsome!! yeppe! 😛
Yay for Emily. Now even her age can kick darkling ass.
lol but thier is just one little problem she hasnt read midnighters yet… i keep telling her i have this whole list of books… but she just laughts in my face :S lol
and get this she lives in DOVER (5 letters) DELAWARE (7 letters) and that is totally darkling!! ewwww lol someone PLEASE talk to me im sooo bord and right now im eating spagetii!! lol yummy
opps that little :S thing was to see if it would make a smily face with a weird look on his face but it didnt so sorry
Viola-Rocker: Why would Scott ghostwrite for Stephan King?! Stephan King is a writer!
So confused.
-Topaz
OMG! I LUV STEPHAN KING! my fav is Salem’s Lot!! sooooooo freakin’ creeeppy!
ps – I finished Midnighters, i cried, it’s saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alexa – Umm, there is a post on Extras done, Jamie wrote it. its IMPORTANT 🙂
im still in the middle of the third midnighters…. im trying to read a little bit slower cuz my mom says that if i read to fast then i will have nothing else to read lol and she is going to stop buying me books soon… i think she already has
and shan… was the IMPORTANT post jamies email??? and if it is i dont now if i should email her cuz i didnt really have like a conversation wiht her that much and shell porbally be like what the heack!! 🙂 lol but i guess i will and when i do im gunna give her my s/n and ask for yours to!! 🙂 lol
Ok! foolio!! 🙂 Oh, and here are the 13 13 lettered words:
~Personalities – Specilization – Computational – Comprehension – Technological – Communication – Spontainiously – Exploitations – Sterilization – Civilization – Organization..yeah, :P!
whoops, here are the last two!! 😛 Extermination – Entrepreneurs.
Entrepernuers, either way
i dunno it was the first thing that poped into my mind i guess. I had just finished LOOKING at my sisters copy of The Cell
man… i was looking at the pic on my computer and thier is this pic of me and my friend jemma when my girl scout troop went on a cruze and we were at some dance clube thing for teens and our eyes are really really really red and the bad thing is i like that pic the pose was cute
and any way i was gunna post that pic cuz i guess im a vampire with by red red eyes lol heh but they were the redist eyes uv ever seen im telling u it was crazy!! hehe 😛
and shan can u just give me ur s/n cuz jamie hasnt emaild me back yet lol and im getting kind of impationt!! lol
o wait ill just give u mine!! hehe my email is blondechick4771@aol.com
and my s/n is blondechick4771 so just add me and if im on send me an im ok ttfn 🙂
kk! my sn is jst my email w/o the @aol.com! lol! i sent u an email
lol i now i got it and i added you to my buddy list… nad were do you live cuz i wonder if thier is a time difference i like in delaware and right now it is 6:54
Do ya’ll all have AOL??? Cause i have msn….
O yeah and by the way does anyone play volleyball?
I tried it. Once. Turns out I really, really suck, and I ended up bopping this one guy on the head with the ball. End of volley ball career.
Okay, I’m a downer. Sorry.
Sorry for the double post.
This is random, but Scott, do you read our comments anymore? You haven’t intervened in a really long time. Probably, though, you were working really hard on Extras, so that was sort of okay. But still.
This is equally random, but we have to do this report on somebody or other, and I asked my teacher if I could do you, and he said no because -get this- you aren’t dead yet. So I chose Ada Lovelace instead so I could still work in Midnighters. Did you know they mention Dess in the Ada Lovelace entry on Wikipedia?
LOL thats very funny! But you can’t be that bad….. I love it!!
HOW DO YOU DOO THOSE SMILY-FACES!? i want to know so bad! they’re awesome!
um natalie… for the smilys just do : that thing and then ) that or P if you what his tong to stike out or ( if he is frowning and thats how you do smilys hehe
just put them toghter and they end up like this 🙂 😛 🙁 hehe
When are you going to post again Scott??
lol this is nothing for not posting…. remember 100 hours left that was a long time for not posting!! hehe any way im really really bord… were are you shan??
that was pretty cool. i play basketball but im just not into sports books. i couldnt even tell that was you writing that, creeeppy. but i guess thats the piont of ghost writing. i wonder if the mysterious celebrity found out you posted part of thier book if they’d be mad. but i guess its not really he/she’s book because im guessing they didnt fully pay you. but then if thats true and its rightfully your book then it wouldnt hurt to tell who the mystery celeb is. even if they dont want anyone to know its not like they would find out. plus we can keep a secret. yet, then agian none of us want scott in jail if there was a contract signed so im just going to shut up now.
I just ordered all of the midnighters books!! I can’t wait to read them!! :):):P
You’re going to LOVE Midnighters. I thought nothing could top Uglies, but they did. And Touching Darkness is reallyreally fawesome.
Thanks sooo much :). i am officially retarded.
lol no problem natalie…. well im really really slow sometimes to so dont feel bad…. goin the club!! hehe jk
and indigoeyes is toughting darkness the 2 or 1 book?? i cant remember… right now im in the middle of blue noon!! its pretty good so far but i liked the 2 book the best so far but thats just me 🙂 hehe
I’m gonna guess…Jada Pinkett Smith. She’s already doing the children’s book thing…you know she would want some girl power in the book. Am I right, am I?
Wow, Scott you really need to update. Justine is way ahead of you and have fun in Paris!
wow scott is going to paris!! thats soo fawsome!!!!!!! and i hope i get to go their cuz this summer im going to europe…. but i dont now were in europe!! lol i now it should be fun tho i cant wait when r u going to paris??
Wow, it’s been 6 days since you posted this!!! We’ve run out of things to talk about!!
lol i cant belive that we have only posted 83 coments in 6 days lol wow im really really bord so i keep posting and have nothing to say!! hehe 🙂
lol that is a lot of comments. and Alexa-la: Touching Darkness is the 2nd book; The Secret Hour is the 1st 🙂
ugh, double posting.
scott, i was just wondering why the date is a day fast, its onlythe 29th here, but im sure there’s a perfectly logical reason and im just being an idiot and missing it
I think he must be in Australia or something. Thats the only reason the date would be off. But of course I really don’t know, just guessing! 🙂
He’s in New York right now and he’s going to Paris tomorrow..(I’m getting this info from Justine’s blog, I’m not his stalker or anyhting haha)
Topaz, i thought it was more last days with the ppl coming out at night and all …. and eating eachother. cell that is. but do you know why it has a date at the end that confused me. goory goory poor clay
ally, creepy salker of maried authors that should be a book generic but an ok book if it was…
glad your not a salker
Alexa – ESTA AQUI (RIGHT HERE) LOL! i’ve been…busy…yeah…busy!
Kaya- finish Midnighters yet???
Anyone – READY FOR SPIDERMAN 3?????? I AM SOOO TOTALLY PUUMMPPPEEEEDDD!!!!!!!!!!! IT’S GONNA BE FAWSOME!
I get to go to Ireland this summer!!! yay!
😛 🙂 :[ :]
Life is like a box of candy, you never know whats coming next!
alexa, touching darkness is the 2nd book in the midnighters series….also, I CANT WAIT 4 SPIDERMAN 3 either!!!!! 🙂
srry 4 the double post…. scott, do u even read our comments anymore?!
I’m going on the premire night for Spidey!
Scott, I don’t know whether or not you read comments, but I’d really appreciate it if you read this one and got back to me on it [faerie.nights@yahoo.com]. When was the secret hour created in the Midnighters? According to science about 500,000,000 years ago days were only 12 hours long. Also humans just came into the picture within the last billion years. I’m sure the hours of the day didn’t just jump from 12 to 24, we slowly got to there within the last half a billion years [ex. 13 hour days, 14 hour days, et cetera]. We learned in Biology that this is because the universe is expanding making us slow down. I’m not sure when we started getting 24 hour days, but my question is when was the 25th hour made in the Midnighters? Because if it’s supposed to be a looooong time ago then it may be scientifically incorrect [but, hey, I’m just a sophomore (wise fool)]. Please e-mail me if you read this!
WOw, thats sooo freakin’ fool!!!! Kell, that is fawsome!
I liked it (even though I don’t like basketball) I could tell it was you. But, sorry, I don’t like the name Jason. There was a Jason in my third grade english class who was a bully and called people names and punched me in the eye so I don’t like the name Jason.
Oh, Kell: according to The Secret Hour darklings created the Blue Time 10,000 years ago. I don’t know how long days really were then but I’m pretty sure there were human beings.
Shan yea i finished midnighters a while ago!!!!! SO SAD!!!!!!!!!!!! I CANNOT BELIVE WAT HAPPENED!!!!!!i cried:( i said this in the crash of 07 comment thread. but i saw Spiderman 3 last nite!!!! it was sooooo awesome…i luved it!!!
i know! i cried too! it was like 1:30 in the morn and i was like sitting in bed silently crying to myself!
there should really be a 4th book to tell what Jessica, Jonathan, &Melissa did trying to find all the other Midnighters & what Rex & Dess did in Bixby!!!!!!! with an ending like that, Scott has tooo!!!! im getting TLD next week.
TLD was fawsome!!!! totally and yeah…he SHOULD make a fourth…but thats if he wants to or not…
Alexa-la , hes been in Paris for like the past week
oh sorry Alexa-la i thought this was the newest post..i wasn’t paying attention
i just got it yesterday!!!! so far its good, but i only finished like the 1st chap. hopefully he’ll decide to continue the stiory!!!!! but with extras and all, i think we’ll have to wait. btw have you read Maximum Ride??? it is soooo awesome!!!!!
no, but it, Maximum Ride, is on my book list tho!
Some people are saying that there should be a 4th Midnighters book. That would NOT be fool… even though Midnighters is my favorite series EVA! It would be dragging it out too much. I like how the ending leaves the rest of the “story” up to the reader’s imagination. It also makes for a sweet RPG. lol
However, the fact that Extras is coming out is totally fawesome because the ending of Specials wasn’t as definite. Also, he’s not continuing with the same characters (main characters, at least) and it takes place in Japan, which opens up a billion new options.
Anyone agree/disagree? I’d love to hear what you think. 😀
I DISAGREE! sorry, but…that…is…wrong…i think there should be another, just to see what everyone does…he (scott) jst leaves you hangin’ and it bugs meee soooooo badddd