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Wenn wir Pech haben wird Torch of Freedom - und damit dann wahrscheinlich auch Mission of Honor - verzögert.
Webers Partner Eric Flint hat gerade eine Beipassoperation hinter sich, wenn Torch of Freedom also noch nicht ganz fertig ist wird der Terminplan wohl kräftig zerrüttelt worden sein.....und nach einer Herzoperation wird Flint wohl auch nicht direkt wieder 100% arbeitsfähig sein was dann weitere Verzögerungen nachsich ziehen könnte

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Hi, people --

I've been even busier than usual lately. Some of you know why that is, and it's not going to get better anytime soon. I thought, though, that since By Heresies Distressed is now out, I'd drop by and give you some idea of where we are on our various projects.

I understand Eric has started snippeting from Torch of Freedom. The good news is that the book is still scheduled for November; the not-so-good news is that what with Eric's bypass surgery (The idle layabout! Imagine taking time off just for something like that!) and all, we're not quite done writing it yet. The part that you're seeing in snippets is pretty much completed -- any changes in it are going to be purely minor tweaking and/or copy edit changes -- and we know what else happens, it's just not all written down yet.

Fortunately, most of my own part of the book is done, so I'm now beginning work on A Mighty Fortress, the fourth book in the Safehold series. I'll be doing two of those in a row for Tor, and hopefully both of them will be delivered by January. I think that's still doable, despite the fact that I'm a bit over a month late getting started on the first of them because of the delays in Torch.

In the meantime, we have almost all the stories for the next Honorverse anthology. (My story finally tells the tale of the Casimir Depot operation. Snerk.) We're still waiting for one, but my understanding is that Toni and Marla are planning on scheduling the book probably for the spring of 2011. Between now and then, however, Mission of Honor will be coming out next July. It's basically complete now, although I've just finished going back through it and revising to reflect things we decided to do in Torch of Freedom that I didn't know about when I did the original draft of Mission. There are probably going to be a few more tiny changes once Torch is officially completed, but I don't really expect them to amount to anything at all significant.

I'm not certain exactly where I'm going to be after the second of the two Safehold books currently scheduled. Given the fact that we already have Mission scheduled for November, and the anthology probably for sometime early in 2011, I'm thinking that I'll probably go ahead and do another Tor book early in 2010. If I get done with that by, say, the end of April, I'll be able to do another Baen book by August or September, which would mean it could be scheduled for the second half of 2011. I do have a non-Safehold book under contract with Tom Doherty now, so I wouldn't have to do three Merlin/mini way books in a row, which would probably be a good thing.

In addition, Toni has agreed to buy an Honorverse book which will be set 50 years or so before On Basilisk Station. Why would I be writing this book, you may ask? I'm glad you asked that. [G] The book in question happens to be about one Sergeant Alfred Harrington, Royal Manticoran Marine Corps. What? Marine Corps?

Yep. As I believe I've mentioned before, Honor knows where she gets her temper, and it seems there's a reason her daddy decided it might be a good idea for him to go into something besides the combat arms. Something to do with a minor unpleasantness he found himself forced to deal with during his own early military career . . . .

She's also agreed, although no sort of delivery schedule has been discussed, that it's getting to be time that we did an official Honorverse Companion. So that's probably going into the works sometime in the not too distant future. I've already decided which of my faithful minions are going to be tapped for the task, but at the moment I'm considering posting the rough draft (such time as its completed) here on the Bar so that interested 'Flies can help scrutinize it. Mind you, there are other times I think I'm insane to even consider turning the lot of you loose on the Honorverse. Can you say obsessive-compulsive? I knew you could.

I think that pretty much brings you all up to speed. Or, at least, as up to speed as I am myself, at this particular moment. ...
Take care, everybody.

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Da ich bisher davon noch garnichts gehört hab (bis zu meiner Weber-Suche bei Simon&Schuster grad eben)...

Golden Reflections

Eine Anthologie rausgebracht von Fred Saberhagen, unter anderem mit einer Geschichte von Weber.

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PS wo hast du das Titelbild und den Klappentext her Angel?

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Next Project: Bahzell, you and Brandark have waited too long...Time to head back to Norfressa!