You Are Lone Wolf: A Father/Son Quest

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Arts, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

When Joe Dever died in 2016, he hadn’t written the last several books in his Lone Wolf series. The Lone Wolf books take place in a deeply rich fantasy universe, and they’re written as a combination of choose-your-own-adventure stories and role playing games like D&D. Joe’s final wish was that his son Ben would finish the series for him. However, Ben was unfamiliar with his father’s books, and the legions of Lone Wolf fans he would have to please. I talked with Ben Devere (who spells his last name differently) about the creative, practical, and personal struggles he went through as a writer, and how he was able to get to know his late father by immersing himself in his father’s fantasy world. Jonathan Stark, co-host of the official Lone Wolf podcast Journeys Through Magnamund, explains why Lone Wolf means so much to fans like him, and how he ended up fulfilling his own dreams of writing a Lone Wolf book. Today's episode is sponsored by Henson Shaving, Magic Spoon and Miracle Made. Visit www.hensonshaving.com/imaginary and use the code IMAGINARY to get two years' worth of blades free with your razor – just make sure to add them to your cart. Get your next delicious bowl of high-protein cereal at www.magicspoon.com/imaginary and use the code IMAGINARY to save five dollars off. Go to www.trymiracle.com/imaginary and use the code IMAGINARY to claim your free 3 piece towel set and save over 40% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to imaginary worlds, a show about how we create them and why we suspend our disbelief. I'm Eric Molinsky.
0:07.0	In 2016, Ben Deaver was working as a music festival organizer in the UK.
0:12.0	Did that for about 15 years. as a music festival organizer in the UK.
0:13.0	Did that for about 15 years and kind of started with having a bit
0:17.2	round-hog day and I was looking for something else to do.
0:20.3	Around that time his father, Joe Deaver, was struggling with medical issues.
0:25.1	They thought his condition was manageable, but then all of a sudden.
0:29.4	This is going to sound like total nonsense, but I had a feeling something was wrong and I called his half
0:35.0	sister and asked her to go check on him which I've never done never had a feeling
0:39.8	like that and she kind of saw this shape through the frosted glass and called an ambulance and they said that he would have died within a few minutes if they hadn't got there.
0:48.0	And without that I wouldn't have had, we wouldn't have had that month in the hospital.
0:54.0	And it was during that month his father made a request which seemed to come out of nowhere.
1:00.4	So it was a death, actual deathbed request, which is pretty nuts.
1:05.0	I think the exact words were, take the gold, fly to Poitier, find Vincent and finish the saga,
1:12.0	which I thought was the most Indiana Jones thing he'd ever said, and how can you turn that down?
1:17.0	As cryptic as that sounded, Ben knew what his father meant.
1:22.0	Take the gold was not a metaphor. as that sounded, Ben knew what his father meant.
1:22.8	Take the gold was not a metaphor.
1:24.8	His father actually had gold in a safe for currency.
1:28.2	Fly to Poitier, find Vincent,
1:30.5	meant get in touch with Vincent Lizzari, a French paleontologist who was a huge fan of his father's work.
1:37.0	Joe Dever was a writer. He wrote a series of fantasy books called Lone Wolf.
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