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Cover art and Publishing Cycles
Post by Keith_w   » Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:16 am

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I can't locate the thread where we discussed these things, so I am putting this here.

I was at a BBQ last night and talking to another attendee who has some experience with this stuff (23 book just submitted) and asked about the cover art and publishing cycle and he said that his last book had cover art before he wrote the book so that the publisher could offer the book to the various markets (Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Chapters) and that his newest book, which went to the publisher June 6 will be available 9 months from now, but the normal length of time before it gets out there is a year. Of course, he doesn't have the conflicts that RFC has with multiple series (or any series at all for that matter) which may explain why his experience is different).
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Re: Cover art and Publishing Cycles
Post by SWM   » Sun Jun 21, 2015 9:03 am

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A year is pretty typical for David, too, with both Baen and Tor. The current delays with HFQ are unusual, but they do happen occasionally to any author. Things sometimes happen in the publishing world.
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Re: Cover art and Publishing Cycles
Post by Keith_w   » Sun Jun 21, 2015 1:14 pm

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SWM wrote:A year is pretty typical for David, too, with both Baen and Tor. The current delays with HFQ are unusual, but they do happen occasionally to any author. Things sometimes happen in the publishing world.

True in everything, stuff happens.
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Re: Cover art and Publishing Cycles
Post by Louis R   » Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:23 am

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IIRC, last time around it was Baen had to shift the date. Although Toni tends not to fuss quite as much about it, it still matters.

The reason it matters is that a lot of people can't - no matter how much they want to - grab two HCs from the same author in one week, so they have to chose. And the way bookstores and distributors operate now, the one they choose less of won't _be_ there when they come back for it next month: it clearly isn't selling as well, so there's no point keeping it on the shelf [!]. Offsetting the pub date a bit more gives the purse strings time to relax and what the stores see is 'this guy has been selling really well for x months straight. order more'


Keith_w wrote:
SWM wrote:A year is pretty typical for David, too, with both Baen and Tor. The current delays with HFQ are unusual, but they do happen occasionally to any author. Things sometimes happen in the publishing world.

True in everything, stuff happens.
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Re: Cover art and Publishing Cycles
Post by jtg452   » Mon Jun 22, 2015 1:35 pm

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And it builds anticipation in the readers, too.

I've been reading a couple series now for over 20 years and they publish one book in them a year. I know around the middle of December (one usually drops just after the New Year, the other comes out 4-6 weeks later), I need to place an order for the new installments.
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