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Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? John Pelan <jpelan13@gmail.com> - 2015-08-19 20:16 -0700
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-20 04:05 +0000
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2015-08-20 01:41 -0400
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-20 13:42 +0000
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2015-08-20 13:08 -0400
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-20 17:18 +0000
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-20 14:54 -0700
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-20 18:05 -0400
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2015-08-28 17:32 +0000
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-28 21:04 +0000
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-28 18:38 -0400
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-08-28 21:12 -0600
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-28 23:40 -0400
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-29 06:07 +0000
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-29 06:06 -0700
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-08-29 08:18 -0600
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-29 13:03 -0400
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-08-29 15:58 -0600
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> - 2015-08-29 22:27 +0100
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2015-08-29 01:00 +0100
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-29 00:39 +0000
Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2015-08-29 16:56 +0100
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-29 16:48 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-29 12:24 -0700
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-29 20:21 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) - 2015-08-29 21:27 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-29 23:00 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) - 2015-08-30 02:38 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-30 12:35 -0400
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-31 01:19 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-30 22:50 -0400
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-08-29 16:13 -0600
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-29 17:24 -0700
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-31 18:11 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2015-08-31 20:20 +0100
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-01 00:44 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 22:27 -0500
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-01 04:51 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> - 2015-09-01 10:50 +0100
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-01 14:55 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-01 15:12 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-01 15:46 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> - 2015-09-04 00:04 +0100
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-31 19:22 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? "John F. Eldredge" <john@jfeldredge.com> - 2015-09-07 17:15 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 23:22 -0400
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-01 17:57 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-09-01 18:09 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-01 18:23 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2015-09-01 14:04 -0700
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-01 23:27 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2015-09-01 19:29 -0700
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2015-09-01 19:49 -0700
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-02 02:55 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 05:29 -0400
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-02 12:11 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2015-09-02 16:47 +0100
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Torbjorn Lindgren <tl@none.invalid> - 2015-09-02 23:51 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-03 01:45 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-09-02 07:03 -0700
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-02 14:14 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? news{@bestley.co.uk (Mark Bestley) - 2015-09-02 10:22 +0100
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-02 12:14 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-09-01 16:42 -0600
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 16:12 -0700
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2015-09-02 00:00 +0100
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 19:24 -0400
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-01 23:29 +0000
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2015-09-02 16:52 +0100
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-09-01 20:01 -0500
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 19:33 -0400
Re: Multiple Fonts for TIL was Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> - 2015-09-04 00:08 +0100
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-30 12:32 -0400
Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-20 12:02 -0500
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| From | John Pelan <jpelan13@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2015-08-19 20:16 -0700 |
| Subject | Re: Complete Collected Stories of [Author] ? |
| Message-ID | <84e72fd1-4bed-4099-9f74-63a195cc36a6@googlegroups.com> |
On Saturday, December 14, 2002 at 5:26:16 PM UTC-7, John Pelan wrote: > Oh yes, and I've > promised to do the Complete Nictzin Dyalhis in 2006. ;-) > > Cheers, > > John > www.ramblehouse.com Okay, so I've run late... The good news is that I'm 90% done with the data entry for The Sapphire Siren & Other Tales of Inter-planetary Adventure. This will be the complete SF/Fantasy stories of Nictzin Dyalhis. Stay tuned to the Dancing Tuatara Press section on the main Ramble House page. It's really bizarre as I started to work on this project in 1986. It was going to be the first Axolotl Press book, as a matter of fact, the name of the press hadn't even been selected yet. Had three stories entered into the word processor and then along comes Tim Powers with "Night Moves". I figure what the heck, Tim's alive and well and Dyalhis has been gone for years, so I'll just do Tim's book first and then do the Dyalhis collection. Well, one thing led to another and the project kept getting pushed aside. Recently my pal John Betancourt at Wildside made some files available which dramatically cut down the prep time that we would have to spend entering data. Since I had a couple of stories that his e-book was missing we basically swapped files so that there will be a dead tree version from Dancing Tuatara Press and Wildside will be able to issue version 2.0 in their e-book line. After all these years the project that got me started in this crazy business will finally be a reality. Figure on the book being released next month! Cheers, John Pelan Editor - Dancing Tuatara Press Science Fiction Editor - Centipede Press
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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
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| Date | 2015-08-20 04:05 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <ntD4p1.1Kx3@kithrup.com> |
| In reply to | #420648 |
In article <84e72fd1-4bed-4099-9f74-63a195cc36a6@googlegroups.com>, John Pelan <jpelan13@gmail.com> wrote: >so that there will be a dead tree version from Dancing Tuatara Press and >Wildside will be able to issue version 2.0 in their e-book line. After >all these years the project that got me started in this crazy business >will finally be a reality. Figure on the book being released next month! Conga rats! Particularly in getting Wildside to do ANYthing. My agent sent 'em an inquiry back in the day, and they never even troubled to say No. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress. Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.
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| From | Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> |
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| Date | 2015-08-20 01:41 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <pvpata90rp5vn6v9tgkvau9e63k5f43ada@reader80.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #420650 |
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 04:05:25 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote: >In article <84e72fd1-4bed-4099-9f74-63a195cc36a6@googlegroups.com>, >John Pelan <jpelan13@gmail.com> wrote: >>so that there will be a dead tree version from Dancing Tuatara Press and >>Wildside will be able to issue version 2.0 in their e-book line. After >>all these years the project that got me started in this crazy business >>will finally be a reality. Figure on the book being released next month! > >Conga rats! Particularly in getting Wildside to do ANYthing. My >agent sent 'em an inquiry back in the day, and they never even >troubled to say No. When was that? I have little trouble getting a response from Wildside. Living nearby and having adopted the publisher's cat may have helped with that. -- My webpage is at http://www.watt-evans.com --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
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| Date | 2015-08-20 13:42 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <ntDvFB.162K@kithrup.com> |
| In reply to | #420656 |
In article <pvpata90rp5vn6v9tgkvau9e63k5f43ada@reader80.eternal-september.org>, Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote: >On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 04:05:25 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J >Heydt) wrote: > >>In article <84e72fd1-4bed-4099-9f74-63a195cc36a6@googlegroups.com>, >>John Pelan <jpelan13@gmail.com> wrote: >>>so that there will be a dead tree version from Dancing Tuatara Press and >>>Wildside will be able to issue version 2.0 in their e-book line. After >>>all these years the project that got me started in this crazy business >>>will finally be a reality. Figure on the book being released next month! >> >>Conga rats! Particularly in getting Wildside to do ANYthing. My >>agent sent 'em an inquiry back in the day, and they never even >>troubled to say No. > >When was that? > >I have little trouble getting a response from Wildside. Living nearby >and having adopted the publisher's cat may have helped with that. Maybe. It was a goodish while ago, like early 2000s. Let me look it up ... but I remember talking [typing] to you about it. .... Well, I can't find the original email from my agent, and I can't find the original discussion with you. But in 2006 I had a discussion with Ann Sharp, who manages the Marion Zimmer Bradley Trust, and I told her, >Some years ago, Patricia Wrede suggested that Wildside might be >interested in publishing _TIL_. She put me in touch with the >publicity person there, who sounded very enthusiastic (well, >publicity people have to, I guess) and suggested that my agent >get in touch with their editor, John Betancourt. So he did. > >Betancourt never answered. NEVER. Not even a "No." Dropped us >into the fathomless abyss. I mentioned this once on rasfw, and >here's what Lawrence Watt-Evans said: > >"I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I'm not. > >"John Betancourt is a nice guy, but he's not good at time management >and has a tendency to lose track of things he needs to respond to. >I'm not sure whether to advise you to nag him until you get a >response, or to say you should shrug and forget it. >Wildside has a total staff of five, not all of them full-time and >not all of them sane, and all of whom have other employment as well >because Wildside can't actually support them. It's published over a >thousand titles in the last couple of years, and the most profitable >have been the public-domain reprints, so that's where attention tends >to get focused. As a result -- yeah, a lot of balls get dropped. > >"It might be worth another try. They aren't _deliberately_ rude, just >disorganized and overloaded. If you don't have the patience to?j deal >with that, though, I woudn't blame you a bit." So that's a quotation from you, which is SOMEwhere on my disk, though I can't find the original at the moment. (It's twenty to seven, the kid's schoolbus is supposed to arrive at seven, we got up at six, the search-fu is not awake yet.) -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress. Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.
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| From | Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> |
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| Date | 2015-08-20 13:08 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <eh1cta948o3i8gbrjbd2kq4jh4mdi66lu4@reader80.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #420673 |
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:42:47 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote: >In article <pvpata90rp5vn6v9tgkvau9e63k5f43ada@reader80.eternal-september.org>, >Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote: >>On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 04:05:25 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J >>Heydt) wrote: >> >>>Conga rats! Particularly in getting Wildside to do ANYthing. My >>>agent sent 'em an inquiry back in the day, and they never even >>>troubled to say No. >> >>When was that? >> >>I have little trouble getting a response from Wildside. Living nearby >>and having adopted the publisher's cat may have helped with that. > >Maybe. It was a goodish while ago, like early 2000s. > >Let me look it up ... but I remember talking [typing] to you >about it. .... > >Well, I can't find the original email from my agent, and I can't >find the original discussion with you. > >But in 2006 I had a discussion with Ann Sharp, who manages the >Marion Zimmer Bradley Trust, and I told her, > >>Some years ago, Patricia Wrede suggested that Wildside might be >>interested in publishing _TIL_. She put me in touch with the >>publicity person there, who sounded very enthusiastic (well, >>publicity people have to, I guess) and suggested that my agent >>get in touch with their editor, John Betancourt. So he did. >> >>Betancourt never answered. NEVER. Not even a "No." Dropped us >>into the fathomless abyss. I mentioned this once on rasfw, and >>here's what Lawrence Watt-Evans said: >> >>"I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I'm not. >> >>"John Betancourt is a nice guy, but he's not good at time management >>and has a tendency to lose track of things he needs to respond to. >>I'm not sure whether to advise you to nag him until you get a >>response, or to say you should shrug and forget it. Yeah, that sounds about right for that time period. Since then, however, John has largely gotten his act together. Thanks to the boom in ebooks that began when the Kindle was released in 2007, Wildside DOES now support him; it's his full-time job. He's fired at least three of the other four people who were working for him in '06, which (perversely) helped*. (I'm not sure who the fourth one was, to be honest.) And he's gotten better at time management -- still not anywhere near perfect, but much better than he was. I'm not saying you should try again, necessarily, but if you did, and still got absolutely no response, this time I _would_ be surprised. = * All three of them (including the publicity person you contacted) then tried running their own small presses. At least two went bankrupt; not sure about the third. -- My webpage is at http://www.watt-evans.com --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
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| Date | 2015-08-20 17:18 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <ntE5Ey.1oDH@kithrup.com> |
| In reply to | #420699 |
In article <eh1cta948o3i8gbrjbd2kq4jh4mdi66lu4@reader80.eternal-september.org>, Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote: >On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:42:47 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J >Heydt) wrote: > >>In article <pvpata90rp5vn6v9tgkvau9e63k5f43ada@reader80.eternal-september.org>, >>Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote: >>>On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 04:05:25 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J >>>Heydt) wrote: >>> >>>>Conga rats! Particularly in getting Wildside to do ANYthing. My >>>>agent sent 'em an inquiry back in the day, and they never even >>>>troubled to say No. >>> >>>When was that? >>> >>>I have little trouble getting a response from Wildside. Living nearby >>>and having adopted the publisher's cat may have helped with that. >> >>Maybe. It was a goodish while ago, like early 2000s. >> >>Let me look it up ... but I remember talking [typing] to you >>about it. .... >> >>Well, I can't find the original email from my agent, and I can't >>find the original discussion with you. >> >>But in 2006 I had a discussion with Ann Sharp, who manages the >>Marion Zimmer Bradley Trust, and I told her, >> >>>Some years ago, Patricia Wrede suggested that Wildside might be >>>interested in publishing _TIL_. She put me in touch with the >>>publicity person there, who sounded very enthusiastic (well, >>>publicity people have to, I guess) and suggested that my agent >>>get in touch with their editor, John Betancourt. So he did. >>> >>>Betancourt never answered. NEVER. Not even a "No." Dropped us >>>into the fathomless abyss. I mentioned this once on rasfw, and >>>here's what Lawrence Watt-Evans said: >>> >>>"I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I'm not. >>> >>>"John Betancourt is a nice guy, but he's not good at time management >>>and has a tendency to lose track of things he needs to respond to. >>>I'm not sure whether to advise you to nag him until you get a >>>response, or to say you should shrug and forget it. > >Yeah, that sounds about right for that time period. > >Since then, however, John has largely gotten his act together. Thanks >to the boom in ebooks that began when the Kindle was released in 2007, >Wildside DOES now support him; it's his full-time job. > >He's fired at least three of the other four people who were working >for him in '06, which (perversely) helped*. (I'm not sure who the >fourth one was, to be honest.) And he's gotten better at time >management -- still not anywhere near perfect, but much better than he >was. > >I'm not saying you should try again, necessarily, but if you did, and >still got absolutely no response, this time I _would_ be surprised. /shrug At this stage, I think I would be ashamed to have enouch chutzpah to attempt getting anything published by anybody, e- or not. Particularly since it wouldn't bring in any money. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress. Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.
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| From | Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> |
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| Date | 2015-08-20 14:54 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <a8132807-7146-483b-806e-02c9bfe509c1@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #420701 |
On Thursday, 20 August 2015 18:30:14 UTC+1, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: > In article <eh1cta948o3i8gbrjbd2kq4jh4mdi66lu4@reader80.eternal-september.org>, > Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote: > >[Untold Tales of John Betancourt] > >I'm not saying you should try again, necessarily, but if you did, and > >still got absolutely no response, this time I _would_ be surprised. > > /shrug > > At this stage, I think I would be ashamed to have enouch chutzpah > to attempt getting anything published by anybody, e- or not. > Particularly since it wouldn't bring in any money. This seems to leave open the question of how much is an actual embarrassment of chutzpah, except that sadly it is not exchangeable for an actual embarrassment of riches. ...unless an embarrassment of riches is actually very little riches. Hmm, it kind of makes sense that way.
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| From | "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> |
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| Date | 2015-08-20 18:05 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <unev9xb7m5tc.1ri04wawbm6id$.dlg@40tude.net> |
| In reply to | #420722 |
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:54:10 -0700 (PDT), Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote in<news:a8132807-7146-483b-806e-02c9bfe509c1@googlegroups.com> in rec.arts.sf.written: [...] > an actual embarrassment of chutzpah, [...] Seems a bit of an oxymoron. Brian -- It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their holes to root for sandtatties. The waves whispered rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss, haggisss.
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| From | jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) |
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| Date | 2015-08-28 17:32 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <mrq609$i3i$1@reader1.panix.com> |
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In article <ntE5Ey.1oDH@kithrup.com>, Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote: > >At this stage, I think I would be ashamed to have enouch chutzpah >to attempt getting anything published by anybody, e- or not. >Particularly since it wouldn't bring in any money. I can tell you there's an audience for The Interior Life. Get it back in print and I will promote it on my site. -- My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ My Livejournal at http://www.livejournal.com/users/james_nicoll http://www.cafepress.com/jdnicoll (For all your "The problem with defending the English language [...]" T-shirt, cup and tote-bag needs)
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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
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| Date | 2015-08-28 21:04 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <ntt972.1z51@kithrup.com> |
| In reply to | #421354 |
In article <mrq609$i3i$1@reader1.panix.com>, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote: >In article <ntE5Ey.1oDH@kithrup.com>, >Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote: >> >>At this stage, I think I would be ashamed to have enouch chutzpah >>to attempt getting anything published by anybody, e- or not. >>Particularly since it wouldn't bring in any money. > >I can tell you there's an audience for The Interior Life. Get it back in >print and I will promote it on my site. Well, I'll tellya. I am begining to think about it, having been reassured by my daughter that *I* will not have to do any marketing whatsoever, she and her friends (who include Seanan McGuire) will do it by word-of-mouth, or rather, by word-of-net. But the problem is finding an e-platform that will support three different sets of fonts (roman and italic for each). Do you know of any? (Kindle is definitely out, since they allow the *reader* to choose different fonts, but they would all be the same font per reader. I figured that out even before Graydon Saunders, whom I have never met but whom, based on his work, I place not far from the left hand of God, told me that his ancestors would all rise up and haunt him if he published with Kindle, or words to that effect.) -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress. Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.
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| From | "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2015-08-28 18:38 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <MPG.304aacce92877bad989aec@news.eternal-september.org> |
| In reply to | #421380 |
In article <ntt972.1z51@kithrup.com>, djheydt@kithrup.com says... > > In article <mrq609$i3i$1@reader1.panix.com>, > James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote: > >In article <ntE5Ey.1oDH@kithrup.com>, > >Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote: > >> > >>At this stage, I think I would be ashamed to have enouch chutzpah > >>to attempt getting anything published by anybody, e- or not. > >>Particularly since it wouldn't bring in any money. > > > >I can tell you there's an audience for The Interior Life. Get it back in > >print and I will promote it on my site. > > Well, I'll tellya. I am begining to think about it, having been > reassured by my daughter that *I* will not have to do any > marketing whatsoever, she and her friends (who include Seanan > McGuire) will do it by word-of-mouth, or rather, by word-of-net. > > But the problem is finding an e-platform that will support three > different sets of fonts (roman and italic for each). Do you know > of any? > > (Kindle is definitely out, since they allow the *reader* to > choose different fonts, but they would all be the same font per > reader. I figured that out even before Graydon Saunders, whom I > have never met but whom, based on his work, I place not far from > the left hand of God, told me that his ancestors would all rise > up and haunt him if he published with Kindle, or words to that > effect.) Fonts can be embedded in PDFs, whether there's a free/cheap tool to do that though I have no idea.
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| From | Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> |
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| Date | 2015-08-28 21:12 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <d4cm8mFin95U1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #421396 |
"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote: >In article <ntt972.1z51@kithrup.com>, djheydt@kithrup.com says... >> James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote: >> >Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>At this stage, I think I would be ashamed to have enouch chutzpah >> >>to attempt getting anything published by anybody, e- or not. >> >>Particularly since it wouldn't bring in any money. >> > >> >I can tell you there's an audience for The Interior Life. Get it back in >> >print and I will promote it on my site. ... >> But the problem is finding an e-platform that will support three >> different sets of fonts (roman and italic for each). Do you know >> of any? > >Fonts can be embedded in PDFs, whether there's a free/cheap tool to do >that though I have no idea. I've tried and failed to read PDFs on my phone, and failed every time. For someone who reads probably five hours a day on that screen, the frustration with PDF means that it's likely incompatible with small screens. Pretty much everything I read is in epub. I have no idea what epub is doing with fonts -- I tend to tune out fonts. But I won't read PDFs on my phone, and 95% of my book reading is on the phone. -- We are geeks. Resistance is voltage over current.
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| From | "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> |
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| Date | 2015-08-28 23:40 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <1ccad17fdsn2z$.a9gedkbamud$.dlg@40tude.net> |
| In reply to | #421412 |
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 21:12:12 -0600, Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> wrote in<news:d4cm8mFin95U1@mid.individual.net> in rec.arts.sf.written: [...] > I've tried and failed to read PDFs on my phone, and > failed every time. For someone who reads probably five > hours a day on that screen, the frustration with PDF > means that it's likely incompatible with small screens. I don’t have a phone, so I can’t judge, but I do occasionally read mathematical PDFs on a Kindle Fire HD 7 in horizontal orientation without any real trouble. Since pages are normally taller than they are wide, that orientation reduces the available screen space significantly, though probably not as much as a phone. [...] Brian -- It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their holes to root for sandtatties. The waves whispered rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss, haggisss.
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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
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| Date | 2015-08-29 06:07 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <nttyD7.1162@kithrup.com> |
| In reply to | #421425 |
In article <1ccad17fdsn2z$.a9gedkbamud$.dlg@40tude.net>, Brian M. Scott <b.scott@csuohio.edu> wrote: >On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 21:12:12 -0600, Greg Goss ><gossg@gossg.org> wrote >in<news:d4cm8mFin95U1@mid.individual.net> in >rec.arts.sf.written: > >[...] > >> I've tried and failed to read PDFs on my phone, and >> failed every time. For someone who reads probably five >> hours a day on that screen, the frustration with PDF >> means that it's likely incompatible with small screens. > >I don’t have a phone, so I can’t judge, but I do >occasionally read mathematical PDFs on a Kindle Fire HD 7 >in horizontal orientation without any real trouble. Since >pages are normally taller than they are wide, that >orientation reduces the available screen space >significantly, though probably not as much as a phone. > I don't have a phone either. /sigh If anyone knows of a format that would be legible both on a phone and on a computer, and would support three fonts, let me know. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress. Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.
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| From | Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> |
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| Date | 2015-08-29 06:06 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <385f65ae-b782-4450-ac17-167c377465dc@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #421412 |
On Saturday, 29 August 2015 04:12:26 UTC+1, Greg Goss wrote: > "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote: > >In article <ntt972.1z51@kithrup.com>, djheydt@kithrup.com says... > >> James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote: > >> >Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote: > >> >> > >> >>At this stage, I think I would be ashamed to have enouch chutzpah > >> >>to attempt getting anything published by anybody, e- or not. > >> >>Particularly since it wouldn't bring in any money. > >> > > >> >I can tell you there's an audience for The Interior Life. Get it back in > >> >print and I will promote it on my site. > ... > >> But the problem is finding an e-platform that will support three > >> different sets of fonts (roman and italic for each). Do you know > >> of any? > > > >Fonts can be embedded in PDFs, whether there's a free/cheap tool to do > >that though I have no idea. > > I've tried and failed to read PDFs on my phone, and failed every time. > For someone who reads probably five hours a day on that screen, the > frustration with PDF means that it's likely incompatible with small > screens. I think you're saying that the phone is incompatible with you - as a book reading device anyway. Except for epub, somehow. But <https://www.google.co.uk/get/cardboard/> is a cunning, possibly sickening, virtual reality accessory for smart phone, which appears to include magnifying lenses. Yes. Cardboard. Literal cardboard. Except for the lenses. > Pretty much everything I read is in epub. I have no idea what epub is > doing with fonts -- I tend to tune out fonts. But I won't read PDFs > on my phone, and 95% of my book reading is on the phone. > -- > We are geeks. Resistance is voltage over current.
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| From | Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> |
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| Date | 2015-08-29 08:18 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <d4dt93FrqbsU2@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #421455 |
Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote: >On Saturday, 29 August 2015 04:12:26 UTC+1, Greg Goss wrote: >> I've tried and failed to read PDFs on my phone, and failed every time. >> For someone who reads probably five hours a day on that screen, the >> frustration with PDF means that it's likely incompatible with small >> screens. > >I think you're saying that the phone is incompatible with you - >as a book reading device anyway. Except for epub, somehow. Epubs get reflowed to fit the screen they're sitting on. PDFs always preserve the layout that they were defined with, usually aimed at a piece of paper. This is almost never aimed at a 3.5 inch screen. I hate the default reader bundled with Kobo or Kindle. I buy my books from Kobo and crack them to use in a generic reader. On the phone, I use Moon Reader. On the laptop I use the reader bundled with Calibre. >But <https://www.google.co.uk/get/cardboard/> is a cunning, >possibly sickening, virtual reality accessory for smart phone, >which appears to include magnifying lenses. > >Yes. Cardboard. Literal cardboard. > >Except for the lenses. -- We are geeks. Resistance is voltage over current.
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| From | "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> |
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| Date | 2015-08-29 13:03 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <unfh45jikamc$.1sop7rvi3w3ob.dlg@40tude.net> |
| In reply to | #421460 |
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 08:18:12 -0600, Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> wrote in<news:d4dt93FrqbsU2@mid.individual.net> in rec.arts.sf.written: [...] > I hate the default reader bundled with Kobo or Kindle. I > buy my books from Kobo and crack them to use in a > generic reader. On the phone, I use Moon Reader. On > the laptop I use the reader bundled with Calibre. The reader with the Kindle app for PC is inferior to the Calibre reader, but the Kindle tablet itself is fine. [...] Brian -- It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their holes to root for sandtatties. The waves whispered rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss, haggisss.
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| From | Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> |
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| Date | 2015-08-29 15:58 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <d4eo7aF4105U1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #421476 |
"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> wrote: >On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 08:18:12 -0600, Greg Goss ><gossg@gossg.org> wrote >in<news:d4dt93FrqbsU2@mid.individual.net> in >rec.arts.sf.written: > >[...] > >> I hate the default reader bundled with Kobo or Kindle. I >> buy my books from Kobo and crack them to use in a >> generic reader. On the phone, I use Moon Reader. On >> the laptop I use the reader bundled with Calibre. > >The reader with the Kindle app for PC is inferior to the >Calibre reader, but the Kindle tablet itself is fine. That's what I meant to say (PC and Android versions). For reading in the sun, I also have a Kobo mini. Kobo prices are better than Kindle. The Kobo mini has inferior ergonomic design (button beats touch screen for one hand use) to earlier Kobos. Never played with a kindle other than looking over shoulders. -- We are geeks. Resistance is voltage over current.
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| From | Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> |
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| Date | 2015-08-29 22:27 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <vq84ua5c8bq92bk7m62tgad5j0hvj661ua@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #421460 |
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 08:18:12 -0600, Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> wrote: >Epubs get reflowed to fit the screen they're sitting on. PDFs always >preserve the layout that they were defined with, usually aimed at a >piece of paper. There is a PDF format that is flowable, "dynamic pdf", though I've never met a reader that understands them except Adobe Reader - which makes it pointless since that'll be on a decent size computer screen. But, y'know, might be useful knowledge to someone. Cheers - Jaimie -- "If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when was the last time you needed one?" - Tom Cargil, C++ Journal This signature was made by SigChanger. You can find SigChanger at: http://www.phranc.nl/
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| From | "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> |
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| Date | 2015-08-29 01:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <d4cb0iFgbchU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #421380 |
"Dorothy J Heydt" wrote > James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote: >>I can tell you there's an audience for The Interior Life. Get it back in >>print and I will promote it on my site. > Well, I'll tellya. I am begining to think about it, having been reassured by my daughter that *I* will not have to do any marketing whatsoever, she and her friends (who include Seanan McGuire) will do it by word-of-mouth, or rather, by word-of-net. > But the problem is finding an e-platform that will support three different sets of fonts (roman and italic for each). Do you know of any? Well the first step is to generate a proof of concept as a RTF or DOC file using three fonts Is there one or two chapters in TIL that use three that you can call out ? This can then be converted to say ePUB and checked > (Kindle is definitely out, since they allow the *reader* to choose different fonts, but they would all be the same font per reader. I figured that out even before Graydon Saunders, whom I have never met but whom, based on his work, I place not far from the left hand of God, told me that his ancestors would all rise up and haunt him if he published with Kindle, or words to that effect.) Even this violation of the laws of creation may be possible since Kindle now has a (embedded) Publisher's font option which a small pub who provides Kindle compatible ebooks may be able to access. -- -- Mike D
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