Repeated Chapters/Content in books

ericth wrote:

fallsfromtrees wrote:As of the next Honor story, all three storylines will be merged again; there will be no more Shadows or Torch books. So you won't see the problem of repeated text again.

I must have missed this, could I get a link to the source for this one?

n7axw wrote:

ericth wrote:I must have missed this, could I get a link to the source for this one?

"An Authorial Note" at the very beginning of Storm from the Shadows.

Don

JohnRoth wrote:Actually, DW intended A Rising Thunder and Shadow of Freedom to be one book, and then wound up splitting it into two about a third of the way through writing the first draft. Whether the next "mainline" book actually winds up as one, two or (gasp) three books is something nobody is going to know until he sits down and gets the first draft written.

SWM wrote:Not quite. It got far past the first draft. It was actually submitted as a single manuscript (titled A Rising Thunder) to Baen. The publisher sent it back with the suggestion that it be split into two books, with additional text.

RFC wrote:That's not quite correct. I see no reason to unify those story lines because I never separated them, and I have no intention of writing additional 350,000-word novels just so I can put all the details in every area of the universe into a single volume. Reader complaints may be informative, but I don't allow them to dictate the way in which I think the story needs to be told. The notion that I decided half way through writing ART that I was going to regretfully give up and split things off isn't really accurate. I was well into the project with some story elements which could have gone in either the Talbott Quadrant portion of the story or the Home Front portion of the story and the book was growing longer than the word count to which I am attenmpting to hold them. I therefore decided that those elements would be pulled out of ART and moved over to SoF. The story lines will merge where they merge and be told separately where that seems best to me. The real problem, I think, is that people persist in thinking of them as separate series when they are nothing of the sort at this point. The TQ books are just as "main stem" as the Home Front books, at least as far as the guy telling the story is concerned.

SWM wrote:

JohnRoth wrote:Actually, DW intended A Rising Thunder and Shadow of Freedom to be one book, and then wound up splitting it into two about a third of the way through writing the first draft. Whether the next "mainline" book actually winds up as one, two or (gasp) three books is something nobody is going to know until he sits down and gets the first draft written.

Not quite. It got far past the first draft. It was actually submitted as a single manuscript (titled A Rising Thunder) to Baen. The publisher sent it back with the suggestion that it be split into two books, with additional text.

JohnRoth wrote:

SWM wrote:Not quite. It got far past the first draft. It was actually submitted as a single manuscript (titled A Rising Thunder) to Baen. The publisher sent it back with the suggestion that it be split into two books, with additional text.

I agree with thinkstoomuch: RFC posted here that he split it before Baen ever saw a draft. He's said that a couple of times, and specifically said he wanted to stop speculation that Baen wanted him to split it.

Fred wrote:I'm reading "Shadow of Freedom" and I'm a little disappointed that entire chapters have been repeated from previous books. This happened in the book or two before this as well. I'm reading them on my iPad, which purchases them off of iTiunes and I'm reading them in the order listed, I think this is the 15th book in the series. Not only that, but the books have gone from $6.99 and 1000+ pages to $8.99 under 500 pages and it has repeated content from earlier books. A big disappointment. I hope the rest of the series doesn't go down this path.

SWM wrote:I believe ericth was asking where the information that the two extra series would be ended and their threads incorporated into the main books. That was not mentioned in the Authorial Note. That came from one of the interviews David made late last year.

ericth wrote:

SWM wrote:I believe ericth was asking where the information that the two extra series would be ended and their threads incorporated into the main books. That was not mentioned in the Authorial Note. That came from one of the interviews David made late last year.

Anyone know which of the interviews? Was it the long one on YouTube recorded in August of 2014? That's the only one I can find in that time frame. The only HonorCon 2014 video that actually feature RFC is that one from August.

Edit: the Grayson wedding practices vid also appears to feature RFC but I didnt think that was a likely candidate for the bit about the series convergence.