Nakladatelství - co nás čeká

[SuE]

já už to koupila i u nás na divokém východu, tak myslím, že už to bude skoro všude :-)

[Muphrid]

Už jsem to psal na jiném místě, ale ony informace jednoznačně patří i sem.

Takže: sám David Weber zveřejnil v diskuzi na Baenu plány na vydávání dalších knih.

Nebudu to sem přepisovat celé, ale když kliknete na tenhle odkaz, dostanete se přímo k onomu příspěvku .

[Johnak]

Netusite nekdo jak to vypada u Walesu? Uz bych docela rad pokracovani Pochodu vnitrozemim. :-)

[Muphrid]

Netusite nekdo jak to vypada u Walesu? Uz bych docela rad pokracovani Pochodu vnitrozemim. :-)

Od těch v nejbližší době nečekej žádné hodnotné informace - procházejí jednou pohromou za druhou a je vůbec zázrak, že se jim daří vydávat aspoň nějaké knihy. Vždyť i ten web mají (kromě těžko nalezitelných zmínek o nově vydaných titulech) stejný jako před třičtvrtě rokem (tzn. zoufale zastaralý, nepřehledný, částečně nekompatibilní s některými prohlížeči a hlavně s otřesným designem)...

[Muphrid]

Další z úlovků z Baenu (v citaci je pod čarou původní dotaz):

Subject: Re: A Few questions for David Weber
Group: Honorverse
Author: davidweber
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 10:12:34 GMT
Local: Thu, 29 May 2008 06:12:34 -0400

   Yes, I have plans to continue The Heirs of Empire series. There will someday be a minimum of two additional books in the series. One will began shortly before Mutineers' Moon and follow Nergal's company from the time they first go into hiding up to the Wars of the Roses. The other will finish up the confrontation with the Achuultani. At the moment, though, that series is at a fairly comfortable resting point, and I have other, more pressing commitments to deal with.


   Well, if there aren't any more Prince Roger books, Toni is going to be pretty upset with us, since we have open contracts on at least three more, I believe. Again, the problem here is that John and I have both been extraordinarily busy (and my own life has been plagued by one personal crisis after another which detracts from my writing efficiency) with our other projects.

   On the subject of audio books, I am a fan, if they are properly executed. That is a fairly important caveat, however. The only one of the Honorverse books which has been turned into an audio book was War of Honor, and it (in my opinion) was a disaster. I would never have chosen that book for the first audio book in the series for a lot of reasons, including its position in the series and the amount of back story needed to really understand what was going on.

   The second, and much more important objection to starting with that book, was that the printed book was 300,000-plus words long. It could have been shorter, and would have been if I'd had the time to do the final edit that I usually do and which usually squeezes somewhere in the vicinity of 30,000 words out of a manuscript of that size. In this instance, due to timing constraints because of the release date, there were several compromises in the production (as in author's portion of the production) process for the book. In addition, the audio book was very heavily abridged. My understanding (which may not be entirely accurate, but is certainly pretty close to what happened) is that the audio book production people were given a roughly 80,000-word script for the 300,000-plus-word manuscript. I was asked at one point if I would be interested in doing the abridgement (if you can call doing brain surgery with a chainsaw an "abridgement"), and I did my best to kill the project. No one had discussed it with me prior to its authorization, and I was horrified by the notion of trying to compress that much novel into that few words. In fact, I told them that I didn't see any way it could be done and that I wanted it clearly stated on the book sleeve that this was a "highly abridged" version of the novel. I didn't get that "highly abridged" warning, by the way. In the end, whoever did the abridgment probably dead just about the best job that could have been done under the size constraints imposed. Unfortunately, that amounted all too often to simply inserting the first sentence from each paragraph, which made it just a tad difficult to follow what the hell was going on.

   Having said that, the people who actually produced the book from the provided script did a superb job. My problem is that I can't listen to more than a very few minutes of it without my blood pressure going through the ceiling all over again. The voice talent was especially good, and they went much more than simply the extra mile to try and get planetary accents correct. The problem was that what they were given to work from was hopelessly compromise before they ever started work.

   An unabridged audio book is an entirely different proposition, but I don't write short books, which means that they run into lots and lots and lots and lots of disks. If I remember correctly, the audio book for Off Armageddon Reef runs to 50-plus disks, for example. I've been reasonably pleased with the Prince Roger audio books, which are unabridged, although I wasn't directly involved in their production in anyway. In fact, I didn't know they existed until the second one was already out. I suppose my only real problem with them (and it's a minor one) is that it can be very hard for the authors to get over "audio shock" when one of the characters' voices comes out sounding nothing at all like the one they've envisioned for the character. That happened with a couple of characters in this series, which is a little off-putting from my perspective as one of the authors, but probably is nowhere near as great a problem for the reader/listener. (By the way, the comment that the voices don't match is from my perspective, not John's. We never sat down and said "Now, this person has a deep voice with a Deep South accent," or "Eva Kosutic sounds like she was raised in Minneapolis," or anything like that, so I'm sure that both of us had different visualizations of what they actually sounded like.)

   Of course, there's another problem in asking any writer to evaluate an audio book version of his own work: he's already completely familiar with. Listening to the entire unabridged length of one of your own books can become more of a chore than a pleasure, since you already know all of the twists and turns of the plot. If a writer needs to reread a book because he's doing a sequel, it's usually faster and a lot more efficient for him to just go ahead and reread it rather than listening to it. And if I'm going to read for pleasure, to be perfectly honest I'd usually rather be reading someone else's book. I read my own work every day when I sat down at the computer. [G]

   As far as "other projects" are concerned, I'm quite busy enough at the moment with the ones I think most people already know about, thank you. In fact, I'm overcommitted, and I don't see that situation getting much better anytime in the next couple of years.

 

On Wed, 28 May 2008 23:26:25 GMT Lunan wrote:
David,
i would like to take a few moments fo your time if i could, as this has been the most active i have seen you on the bar since i discovered it.

I'm curious if you have any plans to continue in The Heirs of Empire universe?
i picked up MM and with in 48 hours i had finished all 3 books, there is something in those stories that really grabs me

Will there be more coming in the Empire of Man series (i of course understand that it also depends on John Ringo)?

Are there any other projects that we as avid readers and fans should be aware of?(that you can tell us about anyway, like any movie news, any contracts to write an episode of stargate or other interesting things)

and lastly, i am very curious as to what my favorite authors think of the medium of audiobooks? i have found that diffrent authors have very diffrent feelings on them.
I love them and i reall with more then only the Empire of Man and OAR were in audio (WHY hasn't Honor been done yet, i'm sure any of the main audio producers [brilliance audio, booksontape, graphic audio, or the dozen others] would LOVE to get the contract for them)

and in closing,
Thank you for all the wonderful work You are up there with my 3 other favorite authors on the "buy this book the second it hits a store" list (the others being Elizabeth Moon, Jonathan Kellerman, and Anne McCaffrey)

[Johnak]

Nejak nevim, jestli ten Roger uz nebude natahovanej. Cetl jsem jen prvni dil, ale co jsem pochopil tak z te planety se dostanou ve treti (ve ctvrte?) knize a nevim o cem chteji psat dal, kdyz uz ta serie nema tu svou zakladni premisu "dopravime princatko pred nebezpecnou planetu" :-)

Jinak, kdyz je tam Weber tak aktivni, co mu tam zkusit dat balik dotazu od "fanousku z Ceske republiky"? Treba by odpovedel. :-)

[Dalin]

No vzhledem k tomu, že čtvrtá knížka končí tím, že

se Roger stane císařem a zároveň začíná občanská válka

tak si myslím, že je docela o čem psát. Obzvláště když ve čtvrtém dílu docela solidně rozepsal podrobnosti o tomto vesmíru.

[Johnak]

Tak by se dalo rict, ze prvni tri dili jsou o jejich dobrodruzstvi na planete Marduk a dalsi je o tom, jak resej problemy zpatky doma? (kdyz vydaj jeste dva dily, tak by to slo oznacit za dve trilogie)

[Muphrid]

Jinak, kdyz je tam Weber tak aktivni, co mu tam zkusit dat balik dotazu od "fanousku z Ceske republiky"? Treba by odpovedel. :-)

Jo, Twombly už mi nějaké drobné podněty dal, ale chtělo by to asi formulovat všechny konkrétní otázky, které by se na Baen plácly - založím na to nový thread...
Takže své otázky můžete vkládat zde.

[Muphrid]

Jo, ještě jsem zapomněl zmínit, že v Baenu mají zvyk vydávat (e-)ARC ((electronic-)advanced reader copy) několik měsíců před oficiálním vydáním papírové knihy. Což znamená, že se teoreticky budeme mít možnost začíst do Storm from the Shadows už někdy v průběhu podzimu nebo začátku zimy. Pěkný dárek pod stromeček, že?

[Muphrid]

Dalin objevil zajímavou informaci o pokračování Koruny otroků (CoS2) - zítra, tedy 3.7.2008, na ní Eric Flint začne dělat. Původní Dalinův příspěvek je zde.

[Muphrid]

Na Baru jsem se dočetl, že snippety na Mission of Honor (MoH, HH12, přímé pokračování At All Cost) by měly začít vycházet zhruba v době vydání mrtvostromové verze Strom ftom the Shadows (březen 2009).
Z toho by vyplývalo vydání eARC MoH někdy v průběhu léta a papírové verze cca na konci léta nebo začátku podzimu 2009.

[Muphrid]

Tak ještě připojím další info k předchozí zprávě. Tentokrát jde o Storm from the Shadows (SoS2), jejíž eARC by měl být k dispozici během 4-6 týdnů. Momentálně je ve fázi úprav.

[Dalin]

Dobrá zpráva je, že Wales má konečně nové stránky. Špatná, že zmizel edičák. A zatímco o Pochodu k moři je aspoň datum vydání 2008, tak o OAR tam není ani zmínka.

[Muphrid]

Dobrá zpráva je, že Wales má konečně nové stránky. Špatná, že zmizel edičák. A zatímco o Pochodu k moři je aspoň datum vydání 2008, tak o OAR tam není ani zmínka.

Jen bych doplnil, že jejich adresa je http://wales.cz/. No jsem zvědavý jestli se u nich OAR ještě kdy objeví - i kdyby to mělo být jen v edičáku...

edit.: napsal jsem jim na mail dotaz ohledně edičního plánu a jestli se na jejich stránkách někdy objeví nebo jestli se k němu dá dostat nějakou jinou cestou. O výsledku vás budu informovat.