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Subject: glencook-fans-digest V1 #138
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glencook-fans-digest Saturday, September 8 2001 Volume 01 : Number 138
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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 13:48:30 -0300
From: Richard Chilton <rchilton@auracom.com>
Subject: Re: Odp: (glencook-fans) Dread Empire
Marcin Welnicki wrote:
>
> > Only Glen Cook can answer that question, and I suspect the answer may
> > depend on what he's doing professionally when the answer is raised.
>
> someone could ask him that at the Glen Cook Book Discussion someone
> mentioned
>
We could ask him, but it wouldn't be the same question. A fan asking
"Would you finish a book?" is different than a publisher asking "If we
paid you a $X advance to finish a book we see selling a total of Y
copies via print on demand and epublishing that should net you a total
of $Z, would you do?"
If he's fired up with inspiration for a new series that will sell as a
mass market paperback he might feel the distraction of dusting off that
old book just isn't worth it.
Personally I'd love to see the DE series that Cook planned out finished,
but if they only sold a few hundred copies it wouldn't pay for Cook's
time.
Richard
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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 14:19:35 EDT
From: Klobas@aol.com
Subject: (glencook-fans) Re: glencook-fans-digest V1 #137
As an example of how poorly the Dread Empire books sold, the final book is STILL available from Amazon.com. I'd be shocked if it had a second printing, so that means that first printings are still available after a decade.
Scott Klobas
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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 14:21:20 -0500
From: Steve Harris <harrissg@SLU.EDU>
Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Glen Cook Book Discussion
Timothy,
I just inquired--no provisions for conference calls for the SF/F meeting.
And they don't have any copies of _Sweet Silver Blues_ either, I
checked. Next stop, the library...
Steve
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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 14:21:20 -0500
From: Steve Harris <harrissg@SLU.EDU>
Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Glen Cook Book Discussion
Timothy,
I just inquired--no provisions for conference calls for the SF/F meeting.
And they don't have any copies of _Sweet Silver Blues_ either, I
checked. Next stop, the library...
Steve
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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:36:22 -0500
From: "Vonder Haar, Peter C." <Peter.VonderHaar@bakerhughes.com>
Subject: RE: Odp: (glencook-fans) Dread Empire
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Chilton [mailto:rchilton@auracom.com]
> Marcin Welnicki wrote:
> >
> > > Only Glen Cook can answer that question, and I suspect
> the answer may
> > > depend on what he's doing professionally when the answer
> is raised.
> >
> > someone could ask him that at the Glen Cook Book Discussion someone
> > mentioned
> >
>
> We could ask him, but it wouldn't be the same question. A fan asking
> "Would you finish a book?" is different than a publisher asking "If we
> paid you a $X advance to finish a book we see selling a total of Y
> copies via print on demand and epublishing that should net you a total
> of $Z, would you do?"
Slightly off-topic, but would these questions be out of place in a
discussion of "Sweet Silver Blues?" I guess if questions were exhausted
about the book itself they could open the floor for others, just wondering.
And in that case, someone ask him who the 3rd female Taken was.
Pete
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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 16:45:24 -0300
From: Richard Chilton <rchilton@auracom.com>
Subject: (glencook-fans) Third female taken
>
> Slightly off-topic, but would these questions be out of place in a
> discussion of "Sweet Silver Blues?" I guess if questions were exhausted
> about the book itself they could open the floor for others, just wondering.
> And in that case, someone ask him who the 3rd female Taken was.
>
He was asked that at convention at one point. The answer was, well, he
doesn't remember which of them were suppost to be female.
Richard
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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 22:53:40 +0200
From: "Marcin Welnicki" <szyderca@poczta.onet.pl>
Subject: Odp: Odp: (glencook-fans) Dread Empire
> If he's fired up with inspiration for a new series that will sell as a
> mass market paperback he might feel the distraction of dusting off that
> old book just isn't worth it.
if he has finished the book (and doesnt want to publish it) he could just
give free what he wrote ;)))
Mocker
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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:38:24 -0500
From: David George <d.s.george@verizon.net>
Subject: (glencook-fans) SSB question
Here's a question for Glen that is SSB related. I heard
somewhere on this list that Glen was using Middle Western
US geography for the world in SSB. In that case, places
like the Cantard might be West Texas and New Mexico, etc.
Karenta proper and the area around TunFaire might be the
Ozarks and upper Missippi valley. Etc.
I've done a fair bit of careful reading of the books for
place names and relationships, particularly the early books
where the stories actually leave TunFaire. My best
analysis says "could be" but there's no compelling gotcha
that makes me feel strongly that it is or isn't. As was
the case with BC, there is no map.
Ask him if the geography of the Karentine world is based on
any real geography.
Here's my guess: no it's not, because it seems to me that
GC does not want to think that hard about stuff that does
not drive the plot forward. But I could be wrong. And I
am curious.
DG
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Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 18:27:08 -0500
From: Steve Harris <harrissg@slu.edu>
Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) SSB question
David,
I just read SSB last night. Can't say I found any justification for a
real-world geography in it, but I'll try to remember to ask.
The one thing I did notice, right at the beginning, was Garrett's old
ship when he was in the marines: the Imperial Kimmswick.
Imperial and Kimmswick are too tiny hamlets facing one another across
I-55, less than an hour's drive south along 55 from St. Louis.
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spoiler for Sweet Silver Blues:
And why in hell were all sorts of people trying to see if Garrett
twigged to lists of names and phrases? (The unnamed major wasn't really
investigating anything, he was covering up things, being the
shapeshifter Venagati agent.) And what's with the Darkelfin prophecy,
"Dawn of Night's Mercy/Madness"?? If this is revealed in later novels,
just tell me that, but don't reveal it :)
Steve
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