There's no formal "museum writers" group that I know of, but a number of us do know each other personally (because we've worked together at places like the Monterey Bay Aquarium) or professionally (We meet at conferences like AAM and ASTC, or we know each others' work.) Whenever I travel and read great museum labels, I always try to find out who wrote them, and send some fan mail if I can. (Writers rarely get fan mail!!) Stuart, it would be good to know what sorts of issues and ideas your writer/novelist friend is interested in exploring. I'm sure that if you start a "thread," you'll flush some writers out of the bushes. Cheers, Judy Rand Rand and Associates