Tor's book publication process in detail

Peter2 wrote:

Thrandir wrote:Nice little article to pass the time with but honestly I would only use GRRM's GoT series to heighten the blaze in my log heater. Which is blasphemous for me to do this to a book.
I know GRRM work is selling but IMHO RFC is a far better writer than GRRM. I again think it is more the TV series that is fuelling his sales more than his writing.

Although there are minor variants of this, I am reminded of Dorothy Parker's famous quote "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be flung with great force."

I've never burned a book. I have, however, resold quite a few, and returned some to their lenders with almost indecent haste. Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant novels come to mind.
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Love that quote. I actually read the whole Thomas Covenant series. It's Jordan's "Wheel of Time" that I cannot stand - too friggen thick!

Thrandir wrote: Nice little article to pass the time with but honestly I would only use GRRM's GoT series to heighten the blaze in my log heater. Which is blasphemous for me to do this to a book.
I know GRRM work is selling but IMHO RFC is a far better writer than GRRM. I again think it is more the TV series that is fueling his sales more than his writing.

Keith_w wrote:

Peter2 wrote:Although there are minor variants of this, I am reminded of Dorothy Parker's famous quote "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be flung with great force."

I've never burned a book. I have, however, resold quite a few, and returned some to their lenders with almost indecent haste. Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant novels come to mind.
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Love that quote. I actually read the whole Thomas Covenant series. It's Jordan's "Wheel of Time" that I cannot stand - too friggen thick!

Showing my age, back when a US Publishing house (Ace) thought it would sell, I picked up a "Perry Rhodan" novel for far too much money. Yet when I just checked, I am chagrined to learn that I obviously am not 'with it!' According to Wikipedia, "As of April 2016, more than 2850 booklet novels have been published totalling some 160,000 pages. Having sold approximately two billion copies (in pulp booklet, i.e. novella format) worldwide (including over one billion in Germany), it is the most successful science fiction book series ever written."

Just goes to prove that there is something for everyone somewhere!

And apologies for adding to thread drift but in lieu of snippet(s) ...

Thrandir wrote:Nice little article to pass the time with but honestly I would only use GRRM's GoT series to heighten the blaze in my log heater. Which is blasphemous for me to do this to a book.
I know GRRM work is selling but IMHO RFC is a far better writer than GRRM. I again think it is more the TV series that is fuelling his sales more than his writing.

I read the first 3 books in GRRM's series. I thought they were good. What I got fed up with was the long wait for the next book. Never resumed reading after the eventual release of the 4th book. Given how slow subsequent books in that series have come out, I stand by my decision. That being said, I could see myself going back and reading it if he ever finishes the damn thing.

Henry Brown wrote:

Thrandir wrote:Nice little article to pass the time with but honestly I would only use GRRM's GoT series to heighten the blaze in my log heater. Which is blasphemous for me to do this to a book.
I know GRRM work is selling but IMHO RFC is a far better writer than GRRM. I again think it is more the TV series that is fuelling his sales more than his writing.

I read the first 3 books in GRRM's series. I thought they were good. What I got fed up with was the long wait for the next book. Never resumed reading after the eventual release of the 4th book. Given how slow subsequent books in that series have come out, I stand by my decision. That being said, I could see myself going back and reading it if he ever finishes the damn thing.

The wait time between books is definitely the worst part of GRMM's A Song of Ice and Fire - the formal name of the book series, A Game of Thrones is book one or the HBO series that started out promising but has turned into a travesty.

It hasn't particularly helped matters that the series was originally going to be a trilogy and have a five year gap/timeskip after book one. Thus, loads of main characters start out as teenagers and pre-teens, and five books in, there's only been 2-3 years of in-universe time progression.

Henry Brown wrote:
I read the first 3 books in GRRM's series. I thought they were good. What I got fed up with was the long wait for the next book. Never resumed reading after the eventual release of the 4th book. Given how slow subsequent books in that series have come out, I stand by my decision. That being said, I could see myself going back and reading it if he ever finishes the damn thing.

Yeah. I've been waiting for book 5 in David Gerrold's series The War against the Chtorr since 1993. I think I remember reading somewhere that he intends to finish it, but I'll expect when I see it, and not before.
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Peter2 wrote:

Yeah. I've been waiting for book 5 in David Gerrold's series The War against the Chtorr since 1993. I think I remember reading somewhere that he intends to finish it, but I'll expect when I see it, and not before.
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I'm still waiting for John Ringo to write the next book in the Council Wars series. Though given how long it has been since the last book and how many other books he has written since, I am not sure he is ever going to resume that series.