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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by Keith_w   » Sat Jun 20, 2015 12:20 pm

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Charybdis wrote:
PeterZ wrote:I believe we are now on a 2 week schedule for Safehold. Looks like sometime between Friday and Sunday.

It starts as a small empty sensation just barely noticeable, then it is a noticeable ache followed by that annoying itch that you just cannot stop. Finally it becomes an avaricious obsession as one finds oneself unable to avoid the occasional that becoms an incessant LOOK! :shock:

Right now I am guesstimating that since our fiend has put out his last 2 snippets at the same time, maybe there is an alarm clock somewhere in the wilds of north South Carolina that goes off.
I'M WAITING ...


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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by n7axw   » Sat Jun 20, 2015 4:34 pm

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Keith_w wrote:
Just remember that tomorrow is Father's day, and as such RFC deserves to receive the rest and honour that he deserves.


Yeah, given this business with his heart, I hope RFC slows down a bit. He's been under way too much stress lately. I enjoy the snippets as much as anyone else, but they are not so important that my life would be bereft without them. All things in sober perspective.

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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by Randomiser   » Sun Jun 21, 2015 3:18 am

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n7axw wrote:
Keith_w wrote:
Just remember that tomorrow is Father's day, and as such RFC deserves to receive the rest and honour that he deserves.


Yeah, given this business with his heart, I hope RFC slows down a bit. He's been under way too much stress lately. I enjoy the snippets as much as anyone else, but they are not so important that my life would be bereft without them. All things in sober perspective.

Don


Indeed. No-one wants to kill the wyvern that fetches the golden rabbit, so to speak. OTOH if he delegated the snippets to Drak again we could get them regularly, he would have one less thing on his to-do list and we could all be happier ;)
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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by Tanstaafl   » Sun Jun 21, 2015 10:34 am

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Keith_w wrote:
Just remember that tomorrow is Father's day, and as such RFC deserves to receive the rest and honour that he deserves.


That is a thought. We should let our kids do the begging. :twisted:
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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by Philip Stanley   » Mon Jun 22, 2015 4:48 am

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I've spliced all the sequential HFQ snippets together, and set them up using WordPerfect to duplicate the typography of the other books in the series as closely as possible. According to this exercise in boredom, we've already been given about 113 pages of HFQ!
Assuming the final book will be about 600 pages, this is probably about 1/5 of it, a significant pre-publication peek. I like the snippets as much, or more, than the next person, but if RFC stopped snippeting right now I wouldn't feel cheated.
He has been very generous, and I appreciate it, and I don't think we should keep on asking/pleading/whining for more. As the old aphorism goes; Be prepared to appreciate what you get!
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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by Eagleeye   » Mon Jun 22, 2015 9:11 am

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Philip Stanley wrote:I've spliced all the sequential HFQ snippets together, and set them up using WordPerfect to duplicate the typography of the other books in the series as closely as possible. According to this exercise in boredom, we've already been given about 113 pages of HFQ!
Assuming the final book will be about 600 pages, this is probably about 1/5 of it, a significant pre-publication peek. I like the snippets as much, or more, than the next person, but if RFC stopped snippeting right now I wouldn't feel cheated.
He has been very generous, and I appreciate it, and I don't think we should keep on asking/pleading/whining for more. As the old aphorism goes; Be prepared to appreciate what you get!
Philip Stanley


That's certainly right, but in that case a short notice - something along the lines of
"Hello guys, I have the book snippeted as far as I intended to go - for more wait please, till the complete book hits the shelves"
- would be nice, wouldn't it?
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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by Charybdis   » Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:44 am

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Philip Stanley wrote:I've spliced all the sequential HFQ snippets together, and set them up using WordPerfect to duplicate the typography of the other books in the series as closely as possible. According to this exercise in boredom, we've already been given about 113 pages of HFQ!
Assuming the final book will be about 600 pages, this is probably about 1/5 of it, a significant pre-publication peek. I like the snippets as much, or more, than the next person, but if RFC stopped snippeting right now I wouldn't feel cheated.
He has been very generous, and I appreciate it, and I don't think we should keep on asking/pleading/whining for more. As the old aphorism goes; Be prepared to appreciate what you get!
Philip Stanley

Given that with the current schedule it appears that we will get 6-7 snippets and your computation yields 4.35 pages per snippet, even those would only bring the reveals to 139 pages, well short of 25% of ending volume.

Pn the other hand, a dearth of updates might have dangerous effects. Me, I now wondering where the next volume of Honor (mainline) is, being that the last volume there, "Mission of Honor", was released EXACTLY 5 years ago (2015/06/22). Suddenly I find myself 'jonesing' for 2 more books - this is not a good orientation. Given that there is demand for our author with FAMILY FIRST priority, and that there are so many series we want more of ....
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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by dan92677   » Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:43 pm

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Perhaps tonight??????.......
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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by bigrunt   » Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:56 pm

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dan92677 wrote:Perhaps tonight??????.......


I keep checking every 15 minutes and hoping.
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Re: HFQ snippet request
Post by dan92677   » Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:39 am

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I'm almost to the same state.....
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