next book?

What will be the next book out and when will it be out? Lot of strings am interested is seeing tied off.

viciokie wrote:What will be the next book out and when will it be out? Lot of strings am interested is seeing tied off.

The next book is titled "Uncompromising Honor", and it will be out approximately a year after RFC turns in the manuscript. Details are in the "Schedule" topic at the top of the page.

JohnRoth wrote:

viciokie wrote:What will be the next book out and when will it be out? Lot of strings am interested is seeing tied off.

The next book is titled "Uncompromising Honor", and it will be out approximately a year after RFC turns in the manuscript. Details are in the "Schedule" topic at the top of the page.

Duckk has just announced that David has finished the first draft. I think that this means several weeks of editing before having the submission draft, but I could be way off.

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Duckk has just announced that David has finished the first draft. I think that this means several weeks of editing before having the submission draft, but I could be way off.[/quote]

Actually, it doesn't take a year. Eric just turned in Vatican Sanction which is coming out in December.

The actual wait may be to synchronize with the 25th anniversary of his first book.

I HATE that idea and would love to see it earlier but RFC and Toni make the decisions.

ldwechsler wrote:

JohnRoth wrote:Duckk has just announced that David has finished the first draft. I think that this means several weeks of editing before having the submission draft, but I could be way off.

Actually, it doesn't take a year. Eric just turned in Vatican Sanction which is coming out in December.

The actual wait may be to synchronize with the 25th anniversary of his first book.

I HATE that idea and would love to see it earlier but RFC and Toni make the decisions.

Please read the explanation in the "About the Schedule" thread. To put it bluntly, David is in the penalty box with Baen, Eric is not in the penalty box.

They are not going to schedule one of his books until they have the manuscript and can evaluate it. Once they do, they don't have a free hand with setting the pub date: their distributor and corporate overlord insists that a new pub date for a major release (and Uncompromising Honor is a major release) is at least a year.

Been may be able to wrangle an earlier pub date, but that's raw speculation. I'd love to see it earlier myself, but I'm not betting on it.

JohnRoth wrote:Please read the explanation in the "About the Schedule" thread. To put it bluntly, David is in the penalty box with Baen, Eric is not in the penalty box.

They are not going to schedule one of his books until they have the manuscript and can evaluate it. Once they do, they don't have a free hand with setting the pub date: their distributor and corporate overlord insists that a new pub date for a major release (and Uncompromising Honor is a major release) is at least a year.

Been may be able to wrangle an earlier pub date, but that's raw speculation. I'd love to see it earlier myself, but I'm not betting on it.

What will be interesting to see, is if the delay the eARC until just a few months out or go ahead and release it sooner because they have the material in hand. The 2nd book of the Manticore Ascendant series was released as eARC in IIRC December (I remember reading it on a ski trip) but not published until September. So a very early eARC isn't entirely unprecedented... (And of course there was the SftS Oopsie where the whole book was inadvertently posted as a snippet [G])

The wait for publication won't be so bad if I've already read it. (OTOH policing the spoiler rules here for 6-8 months like that must be pretty annoying for Duckk)

Jonathan_S wrote:

JohnRoth wrote:Please read the explanation in the "About the Schedule" thread. To put it bluntly, David is in the penalty box with Baen, Eric is not in the penalty box.

They are not going to schedule one of his books until they have the manuscript and can evaluate it. Once they do, they don't have a free hand with setting the pub date: their distributor and corporate overlord insists that a new pub date for a major release (and Uncompromising Honor is a major release) is at least a year.

Been may be able to wrangle an earlier pub date, but that's raw speculation. I'd love to see it earlier myself, but I'm not betting on it.

What will be interesting to see, is if the delay the eARC until just a few months out or go ahead and release it sooner because they have the material in hand. The 2nd book of the Manticore Ascendant series was released as eARC in IIRC December (I remember reading it on a ski trip) but not published until September. So a very early eARC isn't entirely unprecedented... (And of course there was the SftS Oopsie where the whole book was inadvertently posted as a snippet [G])

The wait for publication won't be so bad if I've already read it. (OTOH policing the spoiler rules here for 6-8 months like that must be pretty annoying for Duckk)

I handed it day before yesterday. It is scheduled for next year, I think in the third quarter. I promised Tony in July at Libertycon in Chattanooga that I could have it to her by the end of July, unless something untoward intervened, and she went ahead and put it into the schedule on the strength of that assurance. Predictably, something did intervene, but I actually sent in the submission draft on the 31st, which isn't far off on my original estimate.

Word count is about 280,000 words, and I don't expect a lot of editing. It may or may not come bound with a short story/novella (already completed) which tells the tale on the creation of the Bolthole and finally tells you guys where it is.

runsforcelery wrote:I handed it day before yesterday. It is scheduled for next year, I think in the third quarter. I promised Tony in July at Libertycon in Chattanooga that I could have it to her by the end of July, unless something untoward intervened, and she went ahead and put it into the schedule on the strength of that assurance. Predictably, something did intervene, but I actually sent in the submission draft on the 31st, which isn't far off on my original estimate.

Word count is about 280,000 words, and I don't expect a lot of editing. It may or may not come bound with a short story/novella (already completed) which tells the tale on the creation of the Bolthole and finally tells you guys where it is.

Glad to hear. And thanks for stopping in to let us know David.

Thanks for the update!

kzt wrote:Thanks for the update!

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