The first big one would probably need a Big Name at least tangentially connected to the storyline... say, Clancy, King or (maybe) Gaiman.
This is a Bad Idea[TM]. Seriously, if you want a Big Name to pull someone to your piece of media, it needs to be a Big Name with a serious fan base within the market for said media. Yeah, Tom Clancy has a number of games with his name on them, but I'd be very surprised if there was any significant overlap between fans of the game and fans of his novels.
If you do a project like this, your Big Name for draw needs to be one that gamers know, unless you're prepared (capital-wise) to sink a lot of money into plowing ground that may or may not prove fertile. I can't imagine any company other than Square-Enix or Sid Meier actually wielding their name effectively in a project like this. And Sid Meier only if people remember the SMAC fiction, which I suspect most people don't.
The idea of distributing it through bookstores/Amazon is pretty damn hot though.
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This is a Bad Idea[TM]. Seriously, if you want a Big Name to pull someone to your piece of media, it needs to be a Big Name with a serious fan base within the market for said media. Yeah, Tom Clancy has a number of games with his name on them, but I'd be very surprised if there was any significant overlap between fans of the game and fans of his novels.
If you do a project like this, your Big Name for draw needs to be one that gamers know, unless you're prepared (capital-wise) to sink a lot of money into plowing ground that may or may not prove fertile. I can't imagine any company other than Square-Enix or Sid Meier actually wielding their name effectively in a project like this. And Sid Meier only if people remember the SMAC fiction, which I suspect most people don't.
The idea of distributing it through bookstores/Amazon is pretty damn hot though.