Re: Mercedes book - Stoned Souls...?

On 10/12/2022 2:05 PM, Megan wrote:
> 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.

It is physics in action; it takes energy to untangle things (think of 
the junk drawer full of random power cords, or Christmas lights) 
therefore entropy causes things to get tangled.

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

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