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Weber's 2015 National Book Festival Talk Up

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Re: Weber's 2015 National Book Festival Talk Up
Post by n7axw   » Fri Dec 11, 2015 11:40 pm

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cnrd22 wrote:
n7axw wrote:
We know that a new Honorverse is already in the works, although I haven't seen a progress reort on that. Baen cycles its stuff through faster than Tor, so we could see the Honorverse sooner than you are anticipating.

Presuming David goes to work on it next, which was my question, we could see the next Safehold October or November of next year.

Don

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I wish you will be proven right but I have major doubts about Tor - today (things have changed from even a couple years ago) - putting a book out less than a year from delivery (maybe something expected to sell millions, but Safehold while selling respectably and generally being a one week NYT bestseller is not of that kind).

Baen is more flexible sure and I happen to agree that a mainline Honorverse book will have all stops pulled out to be out as soon as practically possible, but a 3-6 month wait from delivery is still to be expected, so my expectations for the main DW books are as follows:

- main next Honorverse book - fall 2016/early 2017

- next and last Safehold book in the current arc - fall 2017-early 2018

- last main Honorverse book in the current arc - April 2018

In between another Multiverse (spring 2017), another Fantasy (summer 2017), another MA (could be late 2016 too) and maybe the next Honorverse companion (probably late 2016 to 2017)

Unlikely but one obviously can wish, the next Prince Roger, while a possible new Stephanie Harrington novel is also under discussion but as the sales for the first 3 were mediocre, it may or may not happen

That's my take from what I hear and I would welcome better informed news for sure


You could be right about Tor. However remember to factor in the health issues in David's family and missed deadlines. Prior to that we were getting a Safehold about every year.

But still, you could be right. I'm just guessing.

Don

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Re: Weber's 2015 National Book Festival Talk Up
Post by cnrd22   » Sat Dec 12, 2015 12:29 am

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well, any DW book is good news and next year we know we have RTH and I expect 2 more (the next main Honorverse and the next MA) and then again at least 3 more in 2017 (Safehold, fantasy and at least one of MA, Multiverse, Honorverse companion - I think the plan for MA is 5 from what i remember from one of DW recent talks), so we should count ourselves lucky

Another good point in the talk of the title thread was in the q/a about the chances of getting a Honorverse production - DW clearly stated that the movie is dead as the respective company went bankrupt, but there seems to be interest in a TV series which as he said in his answer (and I agree 100%) should be a better fit - however it needs a proposal with high production value (meaning someone with real money, better than SyFy and its ilk - Amazon would have been awesome but now they seem to be committed to the man in the High castle and I don't see them running two high budget sf series); will see, but a series done well (which imho needs first and foremost having a high enough budget) would be awesome
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