About the schedule

Lunan wrote:

runsforcelery wrote:Current project: Uncompromising Honor, present word count approximately 185,000 words (Barregos just announced the Maya Sector's independence ), project delivery date, end of June. Current publication date, probably second half of 2018.

so at 7000 words a day with 25 days left in june thats another 175000 with 185000 already in thats 360000. after edits and pass through thats a 285000 word book?
now this number seems low to me as i'm expecting a Jordan/Sanderson length tome to tie up the solarian situation. (dissolution, systems coming apart, new political units takign shape, the first of the Renaissance factors appearance on the galactic scale).

so i would expect the maya announcement to take place roughly 1/3rd of the way into the book which means that 100000 - 200000 words are still missing? so either word count per day is going up(please don't endanger your health david) or that mid to late july is more likely the delivery date to toni (at which point i feel like toni will lose 1 or 2 nights of sleep just reading and laughing at all us poor fans who have to wait for the xmas earc)

a question for others: Whats davids longest word count book? (i assume either multiverse or safehold will win that title)

ldwechsler wrote:I have what may be a dumb question. If DW is handing in Uncompromising Honor this June why are we waiting until November of 2018 to see it?

Or is that a type and it's coming in 2017.

Why would he and Baen wait for what will surely be a best seller?

runsforcelery wrote:snip

For the record, I never said that Uncompromising would be the end of the Honorverse. I anticipate doing a lot more books in this literary universe. Some of the novels I want to write amount to backstory — Alfred Harrington's Marine career, for example. Others would explore threads I never got the chance to follow up on in the main arc. And others will probably continue with core characters from the current line of novels.

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I'm going to be around and writing for a long time yet, though. I'm not Jack Williamson. That being the case, don't expect any miracles, but barring something unforeseen, I anticipate at least another 15-20 years in front of the computer.

As Isaac Asimov once said, my greatest fear is that someday the publishers will figure out that I'd write whether they pay me or not. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, and David gotta spend some time sticking words down.

ldwechsler wrote:I have what may be a dumb question. If DW is handing in Uncompromising Honor this June why are we waiting until November of 2018 to see it?

Or is that a type and it's coming in 2017.

Why would he and Baen wait for what will surely be a best seller?

Annachie wrote:But then, Asimov was special. He could trip over a typewriter and end up with a 1000 word essay.

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runsforcelery wrote:

ldwechsler wrote:I have what may be a dumb question. If DW is handing in Uncompromising Honor this June why are we waiting until November of 2018 to see it?

Or is that a type and it's coming in 2017.

Why would he and Baen wait for what will surely be a best seller?

Production time after hand in runs about 4 months. Release schedules have to be said about a year in advance. And Toni has decided that she isn't going to schedule any of my books until she has the manuscript in hand. (Which, as I have indicated, I think is a good idea.) So, if I handed the manuscript in tomorrow, absolutely the earliest it could be ready would be the end of October. Now, since she hasn't scheduled it yet, the earliest it can be SCHEDULED is sometime in 2018. And from my perspective, having it come out in 2018 – the 25th anniversary of Basilisk--is a good thing. Trust me, she will get it out absolutely as soon as she can within the constraints I mentioned, but I'm afraid 2017 is right out.