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- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Path: sparky!uunet!scorn!scolex!charless
- From: charless@sco.COM (charles stross)
- Subject: Publisher production times
- Organization: The Somewhat Contagious Operation, Inc.
- Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 08:19:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep07.081951.5496@sco.COM>
- Summary: ... taking longer and longer ...
- Sender: news@sco.COM (Account for Usenet System)
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- I heard from my editor last Friday to the effect that my first
- novel, which I was made an offer for in March this year, will not
- now be published until March-April 1994. Aside from the obvious
- (why does it TAKE so LONG?), this leads me to ask; is it my
- imagination, or is the lead time on the midlist growing longer
- for everyone? I'm not the only author I know who this has happened
- to. It used to be twelve months from contract to publication, but
- now it's stretching to two, two-and-a-half years.
-
- Does anyone have any insight on this?
-
-
- -- Charlie (who is _well_ peeved about it) Stross
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