Disambiguation Notice: Necessity’s Child

[rolanni]

Since this has come up in discussion several times:  No (that’s NO), Necessity’s Child, a Liaden Universe® novel scheduled for publication in May 2013 is not (that’s NOT) the sequel to Dragon Ship. 

Necessity’s Child is the book that bore the working title George, snippets of which were posted in this journal through late 2011 and early 2012.

Further to the sequel of Dragon Ship — It has not (NOT) been written yet; we are not (NOT) in the process of writing it; it hasn’t even been pitched yet.

Writing projects currently on the Lee-and-Miller plate are:

1. Short story for Baen website, due July 1 — Steve
2. Trade Secrets, sequel to Balance of Trade — Steve
3. Two sequels to Carousel Tides, tentatively titled Carousel Sun and Carousel Seas — Sharon
4. Write and submit proposals, one of which will be for the sequel to Dragon Ship.  We have discovered that we need to let our brains rest before we start in proposin’ agin, so that’s what’s happening.  *Looks at list above.  Falls over laughing*

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

*waits impatiently for Trade Secrets*

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Well, I think the next one out is probably that short story. Although there's a chance that Necessity's Child could sneak out -- it's been turned in, which means we can start badge... asking Toni nicely for an eArc. Trade Secrets has to be written, first, I think (although it would be nice if we could read them before they were written... pre-emptive reading! Of course, before long we'd be asking to read them before they even thought of them, which would be confusing, to say the least :-)

[pgranzeau.livejournal.com]

I don't think E-Arcs should come out until the editor has a chance to edit, the copy editor has a chance to foul things up, and the author has a chance to "STET" everything they did, and finally, production has a chance to typeset the book. That's probably about 6 nonths after submission, so I will look for an E-arc in late Fall.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Wow! So you want to postpone the eArcs significantly from when they are released now? Almost to the first quarter release as part of the bundle? In which case they really aren't eArcs (electronic Advanced Reading Copies), but just a marginally early final version?

Right now, the eArcs at Baen are understood to be early releases, with the chance of errors. I'm pretty sure Toni actually usually waits for the first round of edits from the authors, but it is deliberately not before the final typesetting and so forth. And most of us are quite happy with that.

I think the point they've settled on for eArcs works pretty well, overall. But, of course, YMMV. Feel free to wait for a later release. I'll continue to purchase the early eArcs for at least some authors.