Bad news for Safehold fans, but good for the Honorverse fans

runsforcelery wrote:

Henry Brown wrote:
Joat42,"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. 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.

pokermind wrote:On the Safehold Forum RFC posted the following:

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

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.

Notice the next solo Honorverse novel is closer to the front burner, finnaly!

Poker

pokermind wrote:On the Safehold Forum RFC posted the following:

runsforcelery wrote:
I can unfortunately report that as of today I've been officially informed that the release date for HFQ is November 2015. 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.

Notice the next solo Honorverse novel is closer to the front burner, finnaly!

Poker

And on that note, Dilandu, I'm going to have to bow out of this particular thread. I've enjoyed it immensely, but it truly is cutting into my writing time. Of course, one reason I've been able to devote as much time as I have to it over the weekend is that the hard drive on my desktop computer crashed at about 4 a.m. on Thursday morning. I'm supposed to have it back sometime tomorrow, at which point I really need to get back to work on the current book. So, as much fun as this is been, I'm afraid I won't be able to play in the sandbox for the next little bit.