Volume 1 of Heinlein Biography
kittent
in August 2010 (and I can't wait...hooray, for Bill.) http://goo.gl/rpSj
624 pages from Tor Books, due out August 17, 2010.
(via Mary Robinette @ twitter)
Bill Patterson
> Volume 1 of Bill Patterson's biography of Robert A Heinlein is due out
> 624 pages from Tor Books, due out August 17, 2010.
>
> (via Mary Robinette @ twitter)
Just got the bound galleys today -- while the second-pass galleys with
hundreds of typographical corrections yet unmade tied me down in New
Orleans this past week (finished the corrections on Monday). They're
apparently doing the index from the uncorrected bound galley, and the
hundreds of extra line spaces they put in and I took out are going to
throw offthe page count.
As difficult as the three and a half years of editing was, the
production has been -- well, not a comedy of, but certainly errors.
And I might as well begin setting the record straight as I apparently
am going to have to do for years from now: Tor's marketing department
is sabotaging the long-term marketing of the book by stripping down
the title of the overall biography to simply ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
("Learning Curve" is the title of the first volume). The title of the
book is and really, seriously needs to be the compromise I worked out
last year: ROBERT A. HEINLEIN IN DIALOGUE WITH HIS CENTURY.
My objection is that nobody 15 years from now who doesn't already know
about RAH will be able to tell that there is anything for them unless
the title cues it. The plain RAH title is a misconceived marketing
policy of skimming all the sales in the first six weeks and then
pulping or remaindering any not sold. That's just not the kind of
book this is.
kittent
So, who at Tor do I bitch to about getting it right? Publishing is
suffering from #fail....
hugs,
kitten
Bill Patterson
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I'm not sure it's controlled by Tor any more. Macmillan is the 800 lb
gorilla.
loupgarous
Is this book going to be available in an E-version?
Bill Patterson
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Hey, I'm just the author. You don't think they actually tell me
anything, do you? The back cover blurb includes tor.com as one of
their advertising venues, so there may be something online -- but
again, they refuse to discuss marketing with me.
Tian
> On Apr 8, 2:40�pm, loupgarous <vfric...@forethought.net> wrote:
>> Is this book going to be available in an E-version?- Hide quoted text -
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> Hey, I'm just the author. You don't think they actually tell me
> anything, do you? The back cover blurb includes tor.com as one of
> their advertising venues, so there may be something online -- but
> again, they refuse to discuss marketing with me.
Are you going to do a book tour of all the SF conventions or something
like that?
--
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
I showed new deception dollars to the teller at California Bank & Trust.
I offered to leave the bills but they said "No funny money in the Bank!"
Bill Patterson
> Bill Patterson wrote:
> > On Apr 8, 2:40 pm, loupgarous <vfric...@forethought.net> wrote:
> >> Is this book going to be available in an E-version?- Hide quoted text -
>
> > Hey, I'm just the author. �You don't think they actually tell me
> > anything, do you? �The back cover blurb includes tor.com as one of
> > their advertising venues, so there may be something online -- but
> > again, they refuse to discuss marketing with me.
>
> Are you going to do a book tour of all the SF conventions or something
> like that?
>
> --
> I showed new deception dollars to the teller at California Bank & Trust.
> I offered to leave the bills but they said "No funny money in the Bank!"
See above, Tian.