Re: Mercedes book - Stoned Souls...?

On Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 9:13:37 PM UTC-5, Megan wrote:
> q wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I was wondering if anyone knew anything about a book that Mercedes Lack=
ey=20
> > was writing called "Stoned Souls"?
> > I heard it was mostly finished about 6 - 8 years ago, and then they dec=
ided=20
> > re-write it and it was due out maybe in 2006-2007. I haven't heard anyt=
hing=20
> > about it for ages... I was going to re-read that series, and wanted to =
wait=20
> > until that book came out...
> > Does anyone know anything about when it might be printed?
> > Thanks!
> I've got it marked as 'not marked for production' in the=20
> FAQ. I don't remember, now, where I found that information.=20
> But the book seems to suffer from=20
> forever-in-production-itis. Always planned, never at a high=20
> enough priority to get written.
> I imagine it will get written when books in her other series=20
> stop selling well, which I'm hoping doesn't happen. Might=20
> be a good idea to just start that re-read you've planned. :>
> --=20
> Megan
> Journeyperson Dancing Barbarian
> Keeper o' the FAQ: http://ftp.pwp.att.net/m/e/megant3/abml/

Misty just addressed this on Quora!
https://qr.ae/pvSP9n

"Unforunately Josepha refused to actually collaborate on this book, went ah=
ead and wrote the whole thing on her own, turned it in to me, and it was ut=
terly unacceptable. There were gigantic plot holes, things she just ignored=
 (like the existance of cell phones in a high school) because they weren=E2=
=80=99t convenient for her =E2=80=9Cplot=E2=80=9D and things that were so w=
rong they created singularities=E2=80=94like having a basement in a high sc=
hool in Florida. It wasn=E2=80=99t just me. I ran the manuscript past a bun=
ch of the Barflies at Baen=E2=80=99s Bar and the universal reaction was =E2=
=80=9Cthis is worse than the worst fanfiction I have ever seen.=E2=80=9D

Eric Flint and I were going to do something with it, things got so tangled =
up with his death that now I am afraid the project is in limbo. My agent is=
 trying to untangle the situation."