Re: Mercedes book - Stoned Souls...?

On 10/12/22 2:03 PM, Aaron D wrote:
> 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.

One would not think that entropy or thermodynamics would apply to 
legal disputes -- or committee work -- but it does seem to.

*My* Xmas light strings are, of course, always maintained in a 
meticulously untangled condition.

Mostly.

>> (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/