Re: David Gerrold - War with the Cthorr

On 2008-05-02 21:05:51 -0700, jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (James Nicoll) said:

> In article <2008050218375143658-kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Kurt Busiek  <kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On 2008-05-02 17:02:50 -0700, John Schilling <schillin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
said:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 02 May 2008 01:15:16 GMT, Carl Dershem <dershem@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>> 
>>>> diverwpg <wgemedicaid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:b28130c8-bcc2-4550-8255-
>>>> 9dc49fc653f6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> 
>>>>> I would like to finish reading the series before I retire - 7.5
years.
>>> 
>>>>> Does anyone have any news?  His website - www.gerrold.com - seems to
>>>>> have disappeared.
>>> 
>>>> Finish?  I don't know.  But he's written considerable amounts of the
next 2
>>>> books, and what I've read is very good.  But he's been distracted by
having
>>>> to make a living.
>>> 
>>> Isn't Gerrold a professional writer?  You know, someone who makes a
living
>>> by, like, writing stuff?
>>> 
>>> And it's hard to imagine what he could have written that would have
made
>>> as much money as the next Chtorr book.
>> 
>> I've never read the Chtorr series, but Gerrold has said his publisher
>> ended the SF line, rendering them all o/p.  Tor wanted to pick them up,
>> but before they republished them, they wanted a new series from him.
>> So he wrote the "Jumping Off the Earth" series at their request, and
>> things are now set for them to republish the Chtorr books when the new
>> one is ready to go.
> 
> 	I believe the most recent book in the Dingilliad came out
> in 2002. Tor has been kept waiting a while....

Well, yes.  But my point was in regard to the idea that book 5 in a 
dead series would be a sure moneymaker.  The publisher that wants it 
wanted other stuff first.  Who knows -- by the time it's done, they may 
want another "other stuff" first...

> 	Are you quoting him from
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Rage-Revenge-Against-Chtorr-Book/dp/0553278444

That's the quote I saw, yeah.

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