I'm planning to drive to Chicago to get some of the signing action. I was wondering if there were any plans to meetup before the signing with forum members?

So what do you do when your protagonist has a career that you aren't familiar and isn't the typical career for a urban fantasy protagonist(cop, private investigator, etc).  I've been tossing around an idea of the main character being a trucker originally.  I've found some websites with the lingo and some information, but I want to make it as accurate as possible.  Would my best bet be interviewing truckers?  Write the novel anyway and ask someone with trucking experience to review and edit? 

I was thinking of having the luck not actually be that lucky. The main character is lazy, angry, and a 20 year old adolescent. So what he really needs to be a "man" is to build character.  So the luck knows this any puts him into situations that are beneficial to him in the long run...assuming he survives.

So his luck is just as likely to have him open up the phone book on the first try and find the number he is looking for, as it is to put him in the middle of a gang war(which would help him to develop his reflexes and stop complaining and realize that when he previously thought his life sucked he had no idea.)

So luck essentially has a plan to turn our protaganist into a hero, no matter how difficult or dangerous it could be.

Well I don't know of anything in literature, but if you are looking for justification you can look to alchemy and astrology.  Lead is associated with the planet Saturn.  Here is the astrological meaning of Saturn:

Astrologically Saturn is associated with the principles of limitation, restrictions, boundaries, practicality and reality, crystallizing and structures. Saturn governs ambition, career, authority and hierarchy, and conforming social structures.

Saturn/Cronus the Roman/Greek god also was a symbol for Father Time because he brought all things that have a beginning to and end.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_%28astrology%29#Saturn

Why link Alchemy and Astrology?  Well Silver, one of the 7 Alchemical metals is associated with the Moon. So the link to it's affect on werewolves makes sense.

Lead is a heavy element, all elements above Lead are radioactive and not stable, they all decay into a form of lead.  It is the least conductive of electricity of the seven alchemical metals, and in appearance is the dullest.  Lead when ingested stores in the bones.
http://skyscript.co.uk/metal6.html

Lead in Alchemy is considered the oldest metal


Basing leads effect off of alchemy and astrology you could say that lead grounds the supernatural.  It places limitations and boundaries on them. It weighs them down, binds them to the earth.  As it is least conductive of the seven alchemical metals it does not allow the flow of "spooky" energy.  It brings and end to those things that have a beginning.  If you are immortal then it represents the end, death.

In fact don't use this information, it makes me want to use it for my own writing...LOL

I always had an background idea where werewolves were extremely rare, and the ones who do exist tend to be very old and curmudgeony.  The first reason being that most people are more likely to not survive being mauled by a large anthropomorphic beast with superhuman strength and endurance, so passing on the curse is hard.  Secondly that younger werewolves have no control. The essentially turn during the full moon, lose humanity and sanity, and kill.  This tends to be a problem for humans as being eaten is a major downer. So young werewolves tend to be hunted and killed, that and the younger they are the more physically vulnerable they are to massive damage and silver.

However, as a werewolf ages (over 100's of years) they gain better control over their bestial side and increased invulnerability.  I always thought of playing werewolves off of vampires, in that vampires get front loaded with power in the beginning, but plateau fairly quickly.  That and making a vampire is essentially like falling off a log, any white trash inbred vampire moron can do it. 

I thought of a story where a young werewolf is on the run from just about everyone.  Vampires hunt him because killing young werewolves is sport (like boar hunting) and  mauled half eaten humans tend to bring bad attention.  Werewolves hunt him because he is to wild and dangerous.  In the past a werewolf could find an uninhabited area with a large enough territory and grow.  Now with modern society this isn't the case, they cause too much havoc and draw too much attention.  Humans hunt him because after eating a couple of people they started to get a wee upset.

I was planning to make Vampires not necessarily very angsty or goth.  They aren't also necessarily the brightest most productive bunch.  Since making a vamp is so easy most aren't proactively selected to be vamps.  In fact the ones who most likely get turned are the ones stupid enough to hang out in dangerous places, flirt with the supernatural, or drunk on the street.  There are vamps who tend to think things out, but Chester the hillbilly who was turned after passing out drunk in a gutter after drinking moonshine probably hasn't read Sun Tzu or Machiavelli.

Of course I fear that the vamp/werewolf thing is overdone so that tends to hold me off on writing anything.  You know what they say, "If you notice the trend, it's already dead."

I use Scrivener for Mac.  I like it so far, helps with outlining.  It costs around $35, but I think it is worth it.

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html

The comment about finding out nothing after invading someone's mind makes me laugh.  I can just imagine me changing the story on the fly to make the mind read, innocent. Changing the murderer, and adding the extra dynamic of having the mindreader having to explain himself to a warden.

I would just like to say that is the sorriest most pathetic name for a DnD website I have ever heard.