User blog comment:Spawny0908/A Red Dead Redemption Book? (an idea don't get excited)/@comment-3455248-20111208050848

If it was done right, yeah, but it's difficult to translate from one medium to another (just look at all the bad movies made from video games or bad video games made from movies as examples). I haven't read the prequel books you mentioned, though.

As far as subject matter, I like John's story the way it is - I have my own view of his life before he arrives in Blackwater and would rather not have that view tampered with. I'd be more interested in a series of short stories about other characters either before the story or during the parts of the story they don't play a role. As an example, some backstory for how Irish, Seth, and Nigel West Dickens made each other's acquaintance. How did Bill Williamson come to take over Fort Mercer? Things like that. Not that I want every piece of the story filled in - that'd be too much - just little vignettes here and there.