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Any news on a release date for HFQ?

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Any news on a release date for HFQ?
Post by richardinor   » Mon Oct 20, 2014 10:47 pm

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Has there been any news on when HFQ will be released?
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Re: Any news on a release date for HFQ?
Post by ksandgren   » Mon Oct 20, 2014 11:15 pm

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rbhawk wrote:
Hi all,

I just send an e-mail to macmillan and asked for the date.
Got a reply after just one day. :)

Good Afternoon,

The current publication date for that title (ISBN 9780765321879) is 11/01/15.

Have a great day

MPS Customer Service Rep


Now we know.


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Re: Any news on a release date for HFQ?
Post by Earldrygulch   » Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:24 am

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ksandgren wrote:rbhawk wrote:
Hi all,

I just send an e-mail to macmillan and asked for the date.
Got a reply after just one day. :)

Good Afternoon,

The current publication date for that title (ISBN 9780765321879) is 11/01/15.

Have a great day

MPS Customer Service Rep


Well, at least the following book should follow shortly after.

On a related topic, I am a retired librarian and publishers are famous in my mind for dog in the manger behavior. They cause a book to go out of print but refuse to release the rights. This was for books that were very popular. If this was a TV network, I would say that they are trying to do to Safehold what NBC did to Star Trek.

Now we know.


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Re: Any news on a release date for HFQ?
Post by Michael Everett   » Tue Oct 21, 2014 3:55 pm

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ksandgren wrote:The current publication date for that title (ISBN 9780765321879) is 11/01/15.

Is that English or American dating?
If English (the proper way of day/month/year), then it'll be Sunday 11th January.
If American (mixed up way of month/day/year), then it'll be Sunday 1st November.
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Re: Any news on a release date for HFQ?
Post by SWM   » Tue Oct 21, 2014 4:14 pm

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Michael Everett wrote:
ksandgren wrote:The current publication date for that title (ISBN 9780765321879) is 11/01/15.

Is that English or American dating?
If English (the proper way of day/month/year), then it'll be Sunday 11th January.
If American (mixed up way of month/day/year), then it'll be Sunday 1st November.
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Which is it?!?!?!?!?!

American. We've been through this in the other thread, which was active just yesterday.
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Re: Any news on a release date for HFQ?
Post by Starsaber   » Wed Oct 22, 2014 10:13 am

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Either way, Sunday is a bit odd. Don't new books usually come out Tuesday?
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Re: Any news on a release date for HFQ?
Post by Joat42   » Wed Oct 22, 2014 10:31 am

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Starsaber wrote:Either way, Sunday is a bit odd. Don't new books usually come out Tuesday?

We can hope it's just a placeholder date until their schedule is finalized. :)

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Re: Any news on a release date for HFQ?
Post by Tanstaafl   » Wed Oct 22, 2014 12:13 pm

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Joat42 wrote:
Starsaber wrote:Either way, Sunday is a bit odd. Don't new books usually come out Tuesday?


We can hope it's just a placeholder date until their schedule is finalized. :)


Probably just the month in which it is planned.
In ISO date 201511.
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Re: Any news on a release date for HFQ?
Post by Henry Brown   » Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:48 pm

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Joat42 wrote:
Starsaber wrote:Either way, Sunday is a bit odd. Don't new books usually come out Tuesday?

We can hope it's just a placeholder date until their schedule is finalized. :)


Just because the date is a placeholder doesn't mean it is good news. Instead of advancing the release, they could decide to push it back further. :(
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Re: Any news on a release date for HFQ?
Post by runsforcelery   » Sat Oct 25, 2014 5:21 am

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Henry Brown wrote:
Joat42 wrote:We can hope it's just a placeholder date until their schedule is finalized. :)


Just because the date is a placeholder doesn't mean it is good news. Instead of advancing the release, they could decide to push it back further. :(



I can unfortunately report that as of today I've been officially informed that the release date for HFQ is November 2015. :cry: That's right; one year from next month.

I'm not sure why we're quite that late, since I handed the book in several months ago. but I did miss my original delivery date (for reasons TOR understood completely) and I strongly suspect it's because TOR has to commit to release dates sooner than Baen does and is more tightly locked into them when they do.

The good news is that it gives me a bigger window to work on other projects --- like the new fantasy novel and the next solo Honorverse novel --- before I need to go back to work on Safehold. The bad news is that it's another 12 months till the book comes out. I'll probably go on snippeting a bit longer than usual --- mayhbe to the halfway point --- in the meantime.


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