(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 116, Issue 28

[David Stockhoff]

If it's a standard 300-pager, that's about right.

Being on the publications side myself, I can add that four months is 
only possible with a perfect manuscript. Since there is no such thing, 
six months is a much more typical minimum.

On 4/28/2014 9:57 PM, Brian Doherty wrote:
> As a book author, tho never fiction and never with Tor, that generally
> means that the contracted work has been turned in and the publisher
> has agreed, yes, we will publish this. It is likely the beginning of
> the editorial process, though. I'd guess publication is likely still a
> year away---sometime Spring 2015. This could all be wrong. Trad
> publishing is SLOW.
>
> With my last book I was absolutely assured that the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM
> my major NY house could turn an absolutely finished ms---one ready to
> be formatted and printed, already completely read edited and
> proofread---into a physical object in stores was four months. (And
> this was nonfiction essentially about a constantly changing ongoing
> news story where weeks were of the essence.) And that was when
> everything about the editorial process was done. Basically, if we
> don't already see it in a Tor catalog, it's probably 10 months to a
> year away.
>
> Brian Doherty
>
>
>
>> On Apr 28, 2014, at 1:32 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
>>> Gene indicated "A Borrowed Man" has been accepted by Tor and he is working on a probably related something called "The Labyrinth in the Library."
>> Great news!
>>
>> Does "accepted" mean that the editing is finished or is that process still ongoing? (Sorry, I'm not up on the specifics of book publishing lingo.)
>>
>> Any idea of how soon should we expect its release date to be scheduled?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ed
>> http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Profiles.DarthEd
>>
>>
>>
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