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[kate_nepveu]

[This used to be a to-do post, the content of which is now kept on my PDA. I'm not deleting the post because it used to live at the top of my journal and thus attracted comments.]

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Hi, Kate -- this is Daniel Keys Moran.

[danmoran.livejournal.com]

Sorry I haven't responded to you previously -- I've been offline having a life for about two years and only a couple people had my e-mail. I put up a blog at DanielKeysMoran.blogspot.com -- just went live a couple days ago -- and got an email mentioning your "Open Letter." I don't see it in this thread and don't quite understand how to navigate livejournal, so I hope you don't mind my replying here.

AI War was done, once -- I tore it up years ago to rewrite and left it in a torn-up state. Still, it wouldn't take a lot of work to get clean. The last year I've been writing -- a crime series proposal, a tv pilot about the Revolt of the Angels -- both those proposals are done and ready to be shopped. The next thing I'll be working on is AI War.

Now ... the book is still under contract to Bantam. I doubt they want it, but who knows? I'm going to call Bantam in June and find out -- all the people I was unhappy with at Bantam have been gone over a decade; if Bantam still wants that book, I'll let them publish it. If they don't, I'll find out what they want to kick it free. In any event, AI War is the only thing I'll be working on this summer, and once it's clean, I'm going to roll into the concluding sequel -- it's been years since I've written SF, but I am going to publish AI War and its sequel, Crystal Wind, before the people who care about it succumb to Alzheimers.

Take care.

Re: Hi, Kate -- this is Daniel Keys Moran.

[kate_nepveu]

Hello, and welcome.

I'm very pleased to hear about _AI War_ and _Crystal Wind_! Thank you for letting me know. I'll put up a comment with a link in the old post (http://kate-nepveu.livejournal.com/220595.html, which was prompted by a though about Trent & Vash the Stampede (http://kate-nepveu.livejournal.com/220245.html)) and also a link in a new post so people will see it.

About navigating LJ, if you'd like to know:

Unfortunately if someone doesn't give you a direct link or a date, it's not very easy to find a specific thing on LJ, because it doesn't have a good search function (yet; there's a lot of data for them to search so they're working on it). If you have a date you can navigate by a link called "archive" or "calendar," or just by putting "2007/02" (etc.) after the LJ's URL. Sometimes people's tags can help (put "tag" after the LJ's URL), or sometimes not; and sometimes people's memories can help (linked from their profile). But it's always acceptable to do what you do, drop a comment in the first available post saying "about that other thing that I can't find . . . "

Best wishes.

Re: Hi, Kate -- this is Daniel Keys Moran.

[(Anonymous)]

As a long time, avid reader of Dan's work and sci-fi - I am thrilled to hear Dan is thinking about working on sci-fi again. Thanks to Kat as well for hosting this discussion on her live journal.

Dan - I would pay for the book as a ebook, a hard copy or whichever. It is important for people to support artists and writers, In my opinion you are both. If you want to write, we'll be here waiting to read.

San

Re: Hi, Kate -- this is Daniel Keys Moran.

[cipherpunk.livejournal.com]

(A bow towards Kate, whom I do not know. It’s rude to pay a visit to someone’s corner of the ’net and not pay respects to the host, so—thank you, Kate.)

Dan—

Not to sound all stalkerish or anything: William December Starr posted this over on the CT list, so you can expect to see a lot of other people chiming in soon. That said, have you considered some of the alternate publishing venues available to you nowadays? I imagine that a lot of people would be satisfied with a PDF download for $5 rather than picking up hardcopy at $15, and your margin would likely be substantially more.

Also, a lot of Baen authors have had good experiences releasing their earlier works as DRM–free no–cost downloads. Apparently it tends to serve as a free writing sample, and thus encourages hardcopy sales of new writing. If you’re interested in this, Eric Flint would be the guy to talk to.

—Rob

Re: Hi, Kate -- this is Daniel Keys Moran.

[danielmedic.livejournal.com]

(another nod to Kate)

Personally, I'd much, much rather have a hardcopy. There may be people who can comfortably read a book-length work on screen; I'm not one of them. I want something that can get as comfortably battered as my copies of the previous CT works. ;)

Re: Hi, Kate -- this is Daniel Keys Moran.

[(Anonymous)]

While I prefer the printed word, I do like having hundreds of books on a memory card on my Sony Clie PDA (best for reading ebooks I've found so far, bright and readable, even in daylight).

That said, I often end up having both a retail copy of the book AND the purchased ebook. :)

Re: Hi, Kate -- this is Daniel Keys Moran.

[atergoboy.livejournal.com]

First, I would like to thank Mr. Moran for coming back...he has been sorely missed.

Second, I prefer paper to pdf. It's more comfortable, and a lot more personal. Not to mention the chances of illegal sharing on Limewire etc.

Unfortunately, I haven't read any of the CT books since The Long Run. Been trying to find copies of later stuff and it is just not available. Any chance of reprints along with AI war?

Re: Hi, Kate -- this is Daniel Keys Moran.

[quarkwright2000.livejournal.com]

Hi Kate! Just discovered your journal through DKM links - I'll likely be back!

atergoboy - just wanted to let you know, the only CT book released since The Long Run (my all-time favorite book, ever!) was The Last Dancer, check Amazon.com It's still fairly easy to find a used copy. There are also a few short stories and novelettes that made their way around the web.

But I am hugely excited by the idea of a new novel. A couple of years is suddenly making me more impatient than the indefinite wait I anticipated before!!