I've never read any of the Tarzan books, but I get the feeling Pocket may have used that
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That's okay. Just rewrite the book and let Erzula rejoin her biological family. Who knows? Maybe I'll buy it new. Since you don't remember, her sister's name was Soleste.
Are all Star Trek books long like your book was? Unfortunately, I'm not as familiar with Pike's crew; and that's the only reason I'd prefer a Kirk story when reading something about the original series. You're not a bad writer. I loved your Q trilogy.
God bless, Jason Irelan
I haven't crunched the numbers, but I think CHILD OF TWO WORLDS was of average length. That's my only Pike novel to date, however, although Number One returns in my next Trek novel, coming out next month. That one takes place during Kirk's original five-year-mission.
Glad you liked the Q trilogy. Strange to realize that I wrote those books nearly twenty years ago . . .
(I'm assuming you're joking about me rewriting CHILD. Trust me, I've got too many new books to write to go back and rewrite an old one!)
Glad you liked the Q trilogy. Strange to realize that I wrote those books nearly twenty years ago . . .
(I'm assuming you're joking about me rewriting CHILD. Trust me, I've got too many new books to write to go back and rewrite an old one!)
Yes it was a joke. I didn't really expect you to rewrite that 358-page book. Have you written any other Q novels besides that trilogy? What about Borg novels? One thing I heard about you is that you tend to be wordy.
Never done anymore with Q, although Peter David and Keith DeCandido have written some good Q novels as well. And the closest I've come to the Borg was a Kirk/Seven of Nine crossover novel that I wrote a few years ago.
No idea I was known for being wordy, although one of my editors still teases me about how long my first UNDERWORLD novelization was.
No idea I was known for being wordy, although one of my editors still teases me about how long my first UNDERWORLD novelization was.
If CoTW was 385 pages, that's pretty average for this kind of novel. Most of the Trek books are between 300-400 pages, but there have been a few that went longer. The longest ones I know of are DS9: Mission Gamma: Twilight at 504p and Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows at 640p.
Yes, but only the first two were labeled THE EUGENICS WARS (Volumes One and Two), since the third book, TO REIGN IN HELL, was set centuries later.
As I recall, there was talk of titling it EUGENICS WARS #3 anyway, but we ultimately decided against it.
I take it you must no read much fantasy, like Game of Thrones or Wheel of Time. Both series don't have any books under 600 pages (going by Amazon's page counts for the paperbacks) and they both have books over 1200 pages. Page counts like that tend to make you reevaluate what you consider a long book.
