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[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by carandol

OK, some real news about the Tor thing. I was talking about this to a friend on LiveJournal, and who should be reading it but Patrick Nielsen-Hayden of Tor, who says:

Cool.

I know Patrick, and his wife Teresa. Patrick is Manager of SF at Tor among other hats. Teresa was Managing Editor, and is currently a Consulting Editor.

Patrick knows whereof he speaks.

Thanks for the update!
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Dennis

[carandol]

Originally Posted by gwynevans

Worth asking the Tor contact if there's any way we can upload a 'legal' .lrf/html0 format here?

I've asked...

[TallMomof2]

It's been painful editing the HTML file. But I couldn't read the book with the messed up paragraphs. Glad to read that Tor is going to release future books in PDF and HTML.

Also, I now truly appreciate what a good editor brings to a book.

[Dave Berk]

Is there any chance they will re-release the book in html format?

[JSWolf]

That would be nice. But as it stands, I'll just deal with my conversion and fix it as I read and find any errors.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

A friend of mine is British SF/Fantasy writer Liz Williams. She's still getting published in the UK by Macmillan, but was dropped from the roster by US publisher Bantam/Spectra. Liz had a similar problem. Her stuff is brilliant, but every book was different. She built a cult following, but Bantam/Spectra is the largest mass market PB house, and they need much more than cult sales. She's currently being published in the US by small press Night Shade Books, who are doing well with her "Detective Inspector Chen" novels, set in a near future where Singapore has spawned a franchise -- Chen is a police officer in Singapore3. It's fantasy because Chinese mythology is very real in Singapore3. Chen is the "snake agent" -- the department specialist in crimes involving the supernatural. His wife is a demon, and he finds himself partnered with Zhu Irzh, a Seneschal of the Ministry of Vice in Hell. Hell has laws too, and demons whose job is to enforce them. I'm reading the third one now, and it's a delight. The series is doing well enough that Night Shade is happy to issue them. (And I've met the Night Shade folks. They are delighted to be able to publish Liz.)

I really liked her first book Ghost Sisters. It is one of the few science fiction books that I have read that have used philosopy in a good way. You notice that she know he subject (she has a Phd in philosophy). I asked her about the philosophy at a BSFA meeting in London and the things I had noticed as especially interesting was according to her intentionally put there. A paper copy of Snake Agent is currently half a meter from my computer and will be read aftet i have read Ian McDonals Brasyl.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by tompe

I really liked her first book Ghost Sisters. It is one of the few science fiction books that I have read that have used philosopy in a good way. You notice that she know he subject (she has a Phd in philosophy).

I believe her PhD is actually in Artificial Intelligence. But yes, she has the formal philosophy training.

[I asked her about the philosophy at a BSFA meeting in London and the things I had noticed as especially interesting was according to her intentionally put there.

I'm not surprised.

And she spent time in international education, living in places like Kazakhstan, so a good bit of her backgrounds in the books is drawn from observation.

A paper copy of Snake Agent is currently half a meter from my computer and will be read aftet i have read Ian McDonalds Brasyl.

You are in for a treat, but I suspect you know that.
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Dennis

[tompe]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

I believe her PhD is actually in Artificial Intelligence. But yes, she has the formal philosophy training.

I am pretty sure that is not the case since i would remember it since that was the area I studied and have this "everything but thesis degree" in. As I remember it her thesis was in philosophy of science.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by tompe

I am pretty sure that is not the case since i would remember it since that was the area I studied and have this "everything but thesis degree" in. As I remember it her thesis was in philosophy of science.

Hmmm, let's see: degrees in Philosophy and AI from Universities of Manchester and Sussex, and PhD from Cambridge. Yep. Right you are.
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Dennis

[carandol]

I don't know if anyone's stopped fiddling with the format for long enough to actually read "Mistborn", but if you enjoyed it, you might like to know that Brandon Sanderson has another novel for free, a new one, as yet unpublished in dead tree format (DTF?), available in lots of formats at http://manybooks.net/titles/sanderso...arbreaker.html

In case you didn't know, he's the guy who's been given the job of writing the last Wheel of Time book, following Robert Jordan's death.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by carandol

I don't know if anyone's stopped fiddling with the format for long enough to actually read "Mistborn", but if you enjoyed it, you might like to know that Brandon Sanderson has another novel for free, a new one, as yet unpublished in dead tree format (DTF?), available in lots of formats at http://manybooks.net/titles/sanderso...arbreaker.html

Yep. He's been serializing it on line, and seems to have completed it.

In case you didn't know, he's the guy who's been given the job of writing the last Wheel of Time book, following Robert Jordan's death.

We know: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...+jordan&page=2

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Dennis

[JSWolf]

I've finished formatting Mistborn and have started reading it. Finished Chapter 1. I've been correcting things along the read.

I got a reply from TOR and they know if the complaints and will have HTML available for the next free eBook. YEAH!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by carandol

I don't know if anyone's stopped fiddling with the format for long enough to actually read "Mistborn", but if you enjoyed it, you might like to know that Brandon Sanderson has another novel for free, a new one, as yet unpublished in dead tree format (DTF?), available in lots of formats at http://manybooks.net/titles/sanderso...arbreaker.html

In case you didn't know, he's the guy who's been given the job of writing the last Wheel of Time book, following Robert Jordan's death.

Got it and will format it for posting on MobileRead.

[TallMomof2]

Finally finished formatting the book for MobiPocket and I'm very happy with the results. I;m enjoying the book, now I can only hope Tor will release the second Mistborn book in an electronic format.

[JSWolf]

Here is the email I received...

Yes, we've heard the complaints, as well. We thought that PDF would be the most user-friendly format, hence our choice. However, we'll start offering HTML in addition to the PDFs, this week.

Thanks for your thoughtful feedback.

Sincerely,

Laurence S. Hewitt
Executive Producer, Consumer Digital Publishing