Kate ([info]kate_nepveu) wrote,
@ 2007-02-16 18:19:00
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Open Letter to Daniel Keys Moran

Dear Daniel Keys Moran,

I understand that you have a completed Continuing Time novel, Players: The A.I. War, in which Trent the Uncatchable is a major character. I further understand that you've had the rights to this novel back for some time.

As someone who very nearly cries at the idea of a completed Trent novel languishing on your hard drive, may I introduce you to Lulu or Cafe Press? Both will print books from uploaded files, as they are ordered, for the price of their cost plus whatever profit you like (meaning no money up front for the author, though I understand some services are extra); both have you retain your copyright; and both are very easy. I've seen Lulu books myself and the quality is quite good.

What's more, though I am not a publishing professional, if you send me the file for Players: The A.I. War, I will undertake to turn it into a nice-looking file suitable for upload to either of these services—justified, hyphenated, numbered, and so forth. All the work done for you! (Okay, except for a cover; that's beyond my skills.)

Very truly yours,

A fan


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[info]therck
2007-02-16 11:23 pm UTC (link)
I know we'd buy it.

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-02-16 11:28 pm UTC (link)
(If they weren't priced exorbitantly), We'd buy five, just to give as gifts.

Especially if _The Long Run_ and the other books came back too in affordable editions.

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[info]rozk
2007-02-16 11:43 pm UTC (link)
If it would help, I would be prepared to write a critical introduction to Moran's work and give it to the project just to make it even more attractive. I have always thought him a colossally under-rated figure and the disappearance of his books from the shops as one of the major idiocies of modern sf publishing.

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-02-17 02:23 pm UTC (link)
. . . even better! I was offering just perfectionist fiddling, you're offering real thought. Good work.

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[info]filkerdave
2007-02-17 12:19 am UTC (link)
I'd want to go back and reread the prior novels, because at this point I've totally lost the plot

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-02-17 02:23 pm UTC (link)
See, another argument for bringing the rest back, too!

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[info]montoya
2007-02-17 03:40 am UTC (link)
I'd PROBABLY buy it, but boy, by this point I've been completely soured on books later written by people who've impressed me with early books, especially if they didn't impress me with a LOT of early books.

I mean, someone like Dave Duncan or Terry Pratchett has enough of a track record that I'd be willing to take a chance. But Moran, I'd need feedback on.

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-02-17 02:24 pm UTC (link)
_Players_ was written in a sequence with the others, it's not a later-written book.

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[info]netdef
2007-02-17 03:57 am UTC (link)
Holy . . .

I thought I was one of the few people left that remembered D K Moran.

I would buy it, in any format, in a heartbeat . . . with one caveat. He get back to work and write/finish the rest of the 33 volume series sometime in MY lifetime.

Otherwise I would almost prefer to forget he existed.

- frustrated -

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[info]netdef
2007-02-17 04:06 am UTC (link)
What's really odd is that I just posted about him a few days ago over on James Nicoll's journal. But no one there ever replied. Not a ripple.



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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-02-17 02:26 pm UTC (link)
I only stop by James's blog occasionally, so I didn't see the post, or I would've seconded it (and Hughart, and Kagan, and . . . ).

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[info]ricdavis
2007-02-19 07:29 pm UTC (link)
I'd buy a couple. please?

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[info]kate_nepveu
2007-05-27 01:36 pm UTC (link)
Daniel Keys Moran has left a comment in response to this in a different post: http://kate-nepveu.livejournal.com/201869.html?thread=2191501#t2191501

Relevant quote: "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."

He also has a new blog, http://danielkeysmoran.blogspot.com/

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