I started a new novelette based in part on “Travels in India” (1845) by Captain Leopold von Orlich, translated by H. Evans Lloyd, ESQ. It is titled “The Black Diamond of the Elephant God”, and is set in H. P. Lovecraft’s “Cthulhu Mythos”. This is the first time I have used another writer’s work in a story and it will be interesting to see if I can meld my characters and plot, plus my own experiences in India, with some of the settings and experiences in this antiquated journal and craft them into a viable story.