Re: Mercedes book - Stoned Souls...?

On 10/12/22 9:28 AM, Richard Riley wrote:
> 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 Lackey
>>> was writing called "Stoned Souls"?
>>> I heard it was mostly finished about 6 - 8 years ago, and then they decided
>>> re-write it and it was due out maybe in 2006-2007. I haven't heard anything
>>> about it for ages... I was going to re-read that series, and wanted to wait
>>> 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
>> FAQ. I don't remember, now, where I found that information.
>> But the book seems to suffer from
>> forever-in-production-itis. Always planned, never at a high
>> enough priority to get written.
>> I imagine it will get written when books in her other series
>> stop selling well, which I'm hoping doesn't happen. Might
>> be a good idea to just start that re-read you've planned. :>
>> -- 
>> 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 ahead and wrote the whole thing on her own, turned it in to me, and it was utterly unacceptable. There were gigantic plot holes, things she just ignored (like the existance of cell phones in a high school) because they weren’t convenient for her “plot” and things that were so wrong they created singularities—like having a basement in a high school in Florida. It wasn’t just me. I ran the manuscript past a bunch of the Barflies at Baen’s Bar and the universal reaction was “this is worse than the worst fanfiction I have ever seen.”
> 
> 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."
> 

Thank you for the update!

I don't think I'll add it to the F.A.Q. book list until ML's agent 
actually succeeds at untangling the situation.  My experience says it 
is much easier for a situation to get tangled than it is to reverse 
the mess creation.

(Glad ML wasn't willing to let plots get too silly.  Teenagers without 
cell phones?  In this century?  Not blooming likely!)

-- 
Megan
Journeyperson Dancing Barbarian
Keeper o' the FAQ: http://www.cs.csustan.edu/~mthomas/abml/