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Re: Updates from David
Post by Weird Harold   » Sun Jul 03, 2016 9:10 pm

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Charybdis wrote:Err... Thanksgiving is the 4th Thursday, not 3rd! :?


Meh. I just know that every four years or so it is on my brother's birthday. :cry:

Seriously, I just mis-typed the number.
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Re: Updates from David
Post by isaac_newton   » Mon Jul 04, 2016 5:57 am

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Weird Harold wrote:
isaac_newton wrote:Sorry to be a bit thick, but which holidays [& year] are we talking of?


"the holidays" in the US is the period between Thanksgiving (third Thurs in Nov.) and New Year's Day. (sometimes stretched to Twelfth night.)

Presumably this coming Holiday season -- Nov 25-ish, 2016 through Jan 1, 2017.


Hah - I was hoping that's what it ment :-)

So not summer/sutumn 2017 then :-)
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Re: Updates from David
Post by Eagleeye   » Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:32 am

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Did David mentioned something about Snippets from "Shadow of Victory" - or the possible e-ARC publication date?

Oh, but thanks for the Update, nonetheless!
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Re: Updates from David
Post by Theemile   » Mon Jul 04, 2016 9:46 am

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Re: Updates from David
Post by Duckk   » Mon Jul 04, 2016 12:25 pm

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Eagleeye wrote:Did David mentioned something about Snippets from "Shadow of Victory" - or the possible e-ARC publication date?

Oh, but thanks for the Update, nonetheless!


Snippets and EARC won't begin until he finishes his rewrite. Expect at least another month.
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Re: Updates from David
Post by justdave   » Mon Jul 04, 2016 4:35 pm

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Duckk wrote:* David's been in a sustained crunch mode for quite some time. He doesn't have any time at all to visit the forums, hence his extended absence.


Good to hear that the MWW and family are well enough to allow him to 'crunch'!
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Re: Updates from David
Post by WeberFan   » Mon Jul 04, 2016 7:00 pm

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Duckk wrote:So we managed to meet David for dinner tonight. He's given the go ahead to post an update on his status, some of which I've mentioned yesterday.

* David's been in a sustained crunch mode for quite some time. He doesn't have any time at all to visit the forums, hence his extended absence.

* David is currently working on the next Safehold book, At the Sound of Triumph. Word count will probably hit 300,000. He anticipates completing the first draft in a couple weeks. If he can, it is possible, albeit unlikely that Tor can get the book out in time for the holidays. Snippets should begin shortly after he finishes, but is subject to change.

* David's current writing schedule looks like AtSoT, then a heavy modification of Shadow of Victory (should remain on track for its release date), then help on the next Travis Long book, then the next Sword of the South.

* Media rights should have reverted back to David, but no TV or movie project is being planned at this time.


Duckk:

Thanks a whole bunch for the update :D . While I think we'd all like David's "work product" sooner rather than later, I definitely understand and empathize! The more important thing for me is that David and Sharon are doing well and his creative juices are flowing smoothly.
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Re: Updates from David
Post by JohnRoth   » Tue Jul 05, 2016 9:33 pm

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Thanks for the update!

So, early Aghast at the earliest.
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Re: Updates from David
Post by Vince   » Tue Jul 05, 2016 9:52 pm

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JohnRoth wrote:Thanks for the update!

So, early Aghast at the earliest.

So are you aghast that it's August at the earliest? :)
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Re: Updates from David
Post by OrlandoNative   » Wed Jul 06, 2016 12:14 am

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Maldorian wrote:I would like a good TV series or some movies for Cinema, but there is a big Problem: "The big Studios fears science fiction like the devil the holy water!"

If they want to make a good scifi movie/TV series, they have to spend a lot of money to create the world and all the special effects. It´s a lot of risk. It is a very hard work to convince a studio to spend hundreds of million Dollar into such a Project.


That seems strange, considering that many, though not all, SciFi movies and series did quite well.

The Star Trek franchise basically made Paramount; and the original series has morphed into what, 7 movies, and 5 TV series? Not to mention royalties from books and toys? There are about a dozen book series, and hundreds of books by dozens of authors, all of which are licensed by Paramount.

Interestingly enough, I seem to remember that the original Star Trek series had a budget not to exceed $100k per episode, and many cost much less - even though a lot of the special effects were "cutting edge" and expensive at the time. That's about $2m for a whole year. How many individual movies lately have cost so little? 2001 (made at about the same time frame) had a $12m budget, and has grossed over $190m since then world-wide. I'd say that's a fairly good return on the original investment.

Star Wars is similar. Look at the run of the Stargate series - 10 years on TV for the original series, 6 or 7 for the Atlantis variant.

For that matter, lately we've had the Twilight Saga, Hunger Games, and Divergent series movies.

None of which lost money for their makers.

I've seen many more comedy and "reality" series die an early death.

I don't think it's the *studios*. Universal, Columbia, etc have all had scifi and fantasy releases on a relatively consistent basis. It's not the big screen, it's the *small* one. Which is strange, since the cost of a single movie is often more than the cost for a whole year of a TV series. For some reason, only a few networks tend to offer that kind of programming. Syfy (obviously); and, to some extent, Showtime. Note they're cable, not broadcast. Occasionally another network will air something as well, but most are stuck in those unrealistic "reality" shows, comedies, and police and medical dramas, with soaps and game shows during the day. It's the network TV executives that seem the most biased.

The fact is that people *like* to dream. The allure of the "what if". People see reality, comedy, and drama every day of their lives. After a while it gets stale.
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