(re: Ken & The Bilestoad) Here is a link to an interesting interview from the guy who created Bilestoad:
Link: http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/GOODMAN.HTM(http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/GOODMAN.HTM)
He claims that Sierra rejected it for the violence, or at least he claims that’s how he remembered it. He also mentions piracy killed any commercial success he Bilestoad may have had. An interesting, if dry, read.