HFQ snippet request

Eagleeye wrote:

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?

When we were getting snippets every 10 days I was really into the process and enjoying engaging with the book and the forum. It was a good marketing tool for DW. Now I'm getting to be kind of annoyed with the whole thing. It's not the longer schedule, It's the uncertainty that's the problem. If he were to say 'Sorry no more' or I'm taking a 1 month break till I catch up and feel better' or 'Sorry, only one a month on the 3rd Monday from now on' I would be OK with any of those things, because I would know where I was and wouldn't be wasting my time and disappointing my anticipations by checking the forum to find nothing. For me, any plan that was announced and adhered to would be better than the current 'semi-random' approach. Disappointing readers is not such a great marketing technique.

Hi Philip Stanley,

Assuming a schedule of one about every 15 days and we get another soon, there would only be 7 snippets left, for ~20% more or ~136-143 pages, or 'only' 22-24% of the book.

Given RFC's Health concerns, I wouldn't count on anymore than that.

Perhaps we should consider what Sharon might say to some of the constant carping here.

Expletive editing by the administrators would probably be required.

L

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

lyonheart wrote:Hi Philip Stanley,

Assuming a schedule of one about every 15 days and we get another soon, there would only be 7 snippets left, for ~20% more or ~136-143 pages, or 'only' 22-24% of the book.

Given RFC's Health concerns, I wouldn't count on anymore than that.

Perhaps we should consider what Sharon might say to some of the constant carping here.

Expletive editing by the administrators would probably be required.

L

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

Well said. I have read SoS and the entire War God series in the mean time and occasionally check the forum. Thank you RFC for the entertainment.

Log: 17 days have passed since last snippet... We have placated ourselves with countless theories and speculation... Yet even now the more frequent members of the party are withdrawing themselves...

The deadline draws ever nearer to the truth... Soon the celery addicted hand wavier will be allowed to let all be told...

The new spoilers will come soon, we cannot escape them....

They are coming......they are coming

18 days..........Keep that thought.

Feel so weak... <hits refresh>

I was so looking forward to a snippet yesterday. Just got home from a seven day hospital stay for an emergency perforated colon surgery and was really looking for something to brighten the day. Snippet soon please?
Herb Sakalaucks

I was sort of expecting another snippet this sometime this week as well.

That said, given David and Sharon's general states of health, I'm not going to badger them for one. I'm sure the next will come when he can get to it.

On a somewhat tangential but related topic, however, I'd certainly like to suggest to David that he pick a different publisher for the Safehold series going forward as soon as he legally can (I say that because publishers often contract for a number of books in a series at a time, rather than each individual one) that publishes ARC's, like Baen does. That way an unexpected or unavoidable "blip" in the physical, hardcopy publishing schedule isn't so critical, since the online publishing schedule of the ARC version shouldn't be impacted.

For that matter, given the success of the Safehold series, I'd be surprised if Baen wouldn't "paint themselves purple and dance naked in public" (a slightly modified quote from "In Fury Born") to get the future rights to it.

19 and still counting.....

I would be very very surprised if we get snippets this weekend.

This is Liberty Con weekend and David Weber is the Guest Of Honor.