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In which Rolanni is tossed in a sea of stormy emotion
Saturday, April 7th, 2007 12:01 pmSigh.
The Bad Thing has Happened.
No, let me phrase that more accurately: We have now been Officially Notified that the Bad Thing has Happened. I still can't talk about it, but I suspect it will start hitting the airwaves pretty soon from other sources.
On the subject of Good Things, of which there haven't been nearly enough of late, I see that Baen will be publishing Pat Hodgell's books detailing the life and times of Jame Priest's-Bane as Webscriptions on April 15, which is Tax Day in all of the country except in Massachusetts and Maine, where it is Patriots' Day. No, the other ones. If you have somehow missed Pat's work, you owe it to yourself to snap these up.
In another part of the forest, and despite many assertions in several public venues, including our own dern newsletter, that Web of the Trident has been indefinitely delayed, has not been printed, does not exist, damn it!, at least one guy who knew better went off and "bought" it from an online bookseller who did not sell in good faith, because I'd written to them myself with the news. That'll show me, oh yes it will. Quite a number of things.
What I can't figure out is why somebody would assume that I was lying about this. If the book existed, you betcha I'd be telling people to buy it early and often. In fact, I have a lengthy record of announcing when my books are available for sale and keeping on about til the cows come home. What on earth would I have to gain by insisting that a published book doesn't exist? Why, oh, why would someone believe an Amazon.com listing over one of the authors?
It is, to be sure, A Mystery.
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theo_waitley may have missed the announcement that new rules for donations have been posted on the Fledgling index page.
The short form is that we will continue to post chapters-to-donation through Chapter 36 (the project is now funded through Chapter 32). After Chapter 36 has been funded, we the auctors will guarantee the publication of the rest of the draft, no matter how many chapters it runs. Those who wish to donate after that point of course may, and the auctors (but not their cats) will be very grateful.
Speaking of Fledgling, Chapter Twelve has been wrestled from the hands of Daav yos'Phelium and sent over to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kinzel for tweakage and or rewrites, as necessary. As soon as I've finished here, I'll get a start on Chapter Thirteen.
kinzel and I have a movie date this evening. Hmm. The Illusionist or Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Decisions, decisions...
The Bad Thing has Happened.
No, let me phrase that more accurately: We have now been Officially Notified that the Bad Thing has Happened. I still can't talk about it, but I suspect it will start hitting the airwaves pretty soon from other sources.
On the subject of Good Things, of which there haven't been nearly enough of late, I see that Baen will be publishing Pat Hodgell's books detailing the life and times of Jame Priest's-Bane as Webscriptions on April 15, which is Tax Day in all of the country except in Massachusetts and Maine, where it is Patriots' Day. No, the other ones. If you have somehow missed Pat's work, you owe it to yourself to snap these up.
In another part of the forest, and despite many assertions in several public venues, including our own dern newsletter, that Web of the Trident has been indefinitely delayed, has not been printed, does not exist, damn it!, at least one guy who knew better went off and "bought" it from an online bookseller who did not sell in good faith, because I'd written to them myself with the news. That'll show me, oh yes it will. Quite a number of things.
What I can't figure out is why somebody would assume that I was lying about this. If the book existed, you betcha I'd be telling people to buy it early and often. In fact, I have a lengthy record of announcing when my books are available for sale and keeping on about til the cows come home. What on earth would I have to gain by insisting that a published book doesn't exist? Why, oh, why would someone believe an Amazon.com listing over one of the authors?
It is, to be sure, A Mystery.
Those who don't take
theo_waitley may have missed the announcement that new rules for donations have been posted on the Fledgling index page. The short form is that we will continue to post chapters-to-donation through Chapter 36 (the project is now funded through Chapter 32). After Chapter 36 has been funded, we the auctors will guarantee the publication of the rest of the draft, no matter how many chapters it runs. Those who wish to donate after that point of course may, and the auctors (but not their cats) will be very grateful.
Speaking of Fledgling, Chapter Twelve has been wrestled from the hands of Daav yos'Phelium and sent over to
kinzel for tweakage and or rewrites, as necessary. As soon as I've finished here, I'll get a start on Chapter Thirteen.kinzel and I have a movie date this evening. Hmm. The Illusionist or Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Decisions, decisions...
