Kevin's Watch

Anyone else find it odd that here we are less than three weeks from (presumed) release date and SRD hasn't posted anything about it. Nothing confirming release date or book tours or ... anything.

I know he's painfully shy, but this is the last one -- the final hurrah... I was expecting a bit more... buzz.

Yeah, I was kind of surprised too. After spending decades writing this story, you'd think he would say *something*

SRD hates book tours, and didn't tour at all with the release of AATE, so I'm not surprised by that. It's really the publisher's place to market a book prior to release, and Penguin has been shitty about supporting the Last Chronicles, so I'm not surprised about that either.

SRD hates book tours, and didn't tour at all with the release of AATE, so I'm not surprised by that. It's really the publisher's place to market a book prior to release

Oh, I know book tours are hard for SRD (although he does a great book signing event). Although, as I remember, the reason he didn't do one for the last book was because he was too busy on the next book and he told the publishers he couldn't/wouldn't do it (I may be remembering wrong).

And I know that publishers are responsible for marketing and book tours etc and the authors have very little to do with whether and where book tours will be.

Still -- I'm still surprised that there's not a peep.

Until recently, I was looking for updates every day myself. But, for him, the whole saga was finished when he turned in the final MS. How it sells, how it's reviewed - that's really all just icing on the cake. Important & delicious icing, but icing nonetheless.

Yay, he's still with us! A nice (if brief) interview is now up at SFRevu.

It doesn't seem significantly spoilery, but there is a link to a full (positive) review of TLD as well.

Belbo wrote:Yay, he's still with us! A nice (if brief) interview is now up at SFRevu.

It doesn't seem significantly spoilery, but there is a link to a full (positive) review of TLD as well.

Thanks for the link!