Month: April 2006

For fans of the most errant knight around, I thought I’d let you know that a new “Sir Apropos of Nothing” novelette will be featured in the forthcoming short story anthology, “Heroes in Training.” Edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Jim C. Hines, it will be published by Daw. No finalized pub date yet, although they’re hoping for 2007.

The story, “Sir Apropos of Nothing and the Adventure of the Receding Heir” takes place late in Apropos’ career, when he’s actually managed–through his customary combination of deceit, skill, and luck–to become ruler of his own complete country, and circumstances require him to find someone sufficiently harmless that he can put into a position to take over for him. Also making his literary debut in the same story: Schlepper the Leper, the character first incarnated by Ariel during a convention masquerade. She won the prize for most humorous, so I figured that’s a reasonable pedigree for Schlepper to join the Apropos Universe.

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Conclusion of the two parter involving our hero, Mexican wrestling, deep discussion over magic versus science, and a twist ending that had fans howling a week ahead of time.

Whad’ja think?

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You know, with so many people angered over the perceived corporate cowardice of Comedy Central, and the assertion that being worried over violent response is having a chilling effect on free expression, and how terrible it all is, and how someone should do something…

Here’s a thought. If you want to make a point about rights of free expression and standing firm in the face of potential negative reaction, here’s what you can do:

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The producers of the show “Martha Stewart” contacted Pocket Books for permission to display the cover of a “New Frontier” novel that features Ashley Judd as “Robin Lefler,” since Judd is slated to appear on the show today. I’ll be watching to see if they do it and what they say, if anything.

UPDATE: Oh well. Apparently not. God, what a boring show. I think they should have Eve Plumb come on and whine, “Martha, Martha, Martha!”

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“Spike vs. Dracula #1.” I finally got my comp copies, only to page through it and discover that page 21 was completely devoid of dialogue. Didn’t ANYONE wonder why the ending made no sense? What’s really mystifying is that it was on the jpegs that IDW sent me for approval. Somewhere, between the printer and the printing, an entire page of my dialogue completely vanished.

For those who bought the issue and would like to have some idea of what the hëll happened at the end, the actual page of dialogue is reproduced below–

UPDATED 4/14: I’d appreciate it if people would stop sending angry e-mails to Chris Ryall at IDW. Chris, who has been nothing but one of the classiest and most supportive editors I’ve ever worked with, was not REMOTELY responsible for the missing dialogue. Neither was anyone else at IDW; as I noted, the approval material they sent me and the material sent out to the printer all had the material right. Considering that no reader appeared to twig to the fact that the dialogue was missing, or certainly not enough to comment upon it, and it certainly ruined no one’s good time or their ability to understand the story, the only one who’s REALLY got a reason to be worked up is me, and even I’m not angry at IDW. I’ve been subjected to far more stupendous, and inexcusable, screw-ups in the past from far larger companies, so cut IDW some slack, would’ja, please.

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