I’ve seen people talk about actors and artists that had a terrible time.

My own would be Anne Rice. She wrote Interview with the Vampire after her young daughter died of Leukemia. Then her husband suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage. I suspect her Christian, anti-fanfic phase was a result of mental illness and manipulation from the publishers, although I don’t think she ever apologized.

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    He wrote the tie-in novel for the original Halo: Combat Evolved, which basically set up the narrative for all the following games, including and especially Halo: Reach.

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      Fall of Reach is great and often gets a lot of deserved praise. I see Combat Evolved often get overlooked or skipped, people assuming it’s just a rehash of the game; Master Chief moving from room to room clearing enemies. But he managed to really write around that a lot, create some great original characters who’s doomed fate really hit hard. McKay was a great character, fleshing out Jenkins was awesome. And Keyes being assimilated was heartbreaking.

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      Well, he wrote the Prequel and two sequel novels; one to Halo Combat Evolved and one that runs concurrently to the events of Halo 2.

      Halo: Fall of Reach and Halo: First Strike are the prequel and sequel to Halo:CE, and Ghosts of Onyx is the one concurrent to Halo 2.

      The book tie-in for Halo: Combat Evolved was written by William Dietz and it’s not very good.

      Unlike Nylund’s work on Halo, which is fantastic.

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        Oh, my bad, yes The Fall of Reach is the book to which I’m referring. It played a big part in establishing the mythos of the franchise and is GOATed.