From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)  wrote:   
   >On 11/27/16 2:29 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >> Dirk van den Boom   wrote:   
   >>> Am 26.11.2016 um 15:47 schrieb Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor):   
   >>>   
   >>>>     Careerwise, that's my last shot to get something big enough to keep   
   >>>> Baen publishing my solos.   
   >>>   
   >>> But you will continue with collabs? I'll hate it if they would drop you   
   >>> completely.   
   >>>   
   >>>>     What's up with everyone else?   
   >>>   
   >>> The English version of my alternative-history-series has sold 3000   
   >>> copies, which I assume is okay for the anglophone market. My publisher   
   >>> is happy enough to do the second one already in January. Sitting on the   
   >>> translation of # 3. It's no fun to do that kind of work yourself.   
   >>>   
   >>> In other news, my first trilogy with a bigger publisher here in Germany   
   >>> is doing well, they consider signing for another one. Aside from that, a   
   >>> lot of small press stuff to keep me busy.   
   >>>   
   >>> Next year, WorldCon. Drop over, Ryk, Helsinki is just around the corner,   
   >>> if you look at it from a galactic viewpoint.   
   >>   
   >> Well, _TIL_ is up to 956 downloads; it's moving at a glacial pace   
   >> now and is probably grinding to a halt.  Still lots more than I   
   >> expected.   
   >>   
   >> I just sent Bill the (I hope) final proof of _The Witch of   
   >> Syracuse), having had to restore a lot of em-dashes to the text;   
   >> Open Office keeps dropping them, because there are no em-dashes   
   >> in any of its fonts.   
   >>   
   >> The protagonist of my space opera is about to start having a   
   >> crisis of conscience.  He's being held by people (a) who trust   
   >> him, mostly, but (b) the first duty of a prisoner is to escape,   
   >> and he's working on it.   
   >   
   >	That's always a good source of tension between characters that you   
   >like. "I like and trust you, but I have a duty that will force me to do   
   >something that will cause you trouble."   
      
   In fact, his escaping will not cause them much trouble (he's not   
   going to out them to the authorities, which is what they fear),   
   but it's going to scare hell out of them for a couple of days.   
      
   --   
   Dorothy J. Heydt   
   Vallejo, California   
   djheydt at gmail dot com   
      
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