Authors paid per page or book?
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You're not alone, S Gomez. I was wondering what was so unreadable about it. I mean, I can see how it might not work on a smaller (10 pt or less) scale, but in a typical 12+ pt scenario I'm a little lost on the readability criterion.
Then again, I'm not the fontaholic that some others here are.
If we're still talking about Amiante, the Jack Vance "vanity" font, I find it busy and fussy. Some character shapes don't blend harmoniously with others -- as if some letters were from one font, and others from another.
When reading long pieces, such as the chapters of a novel, I sometimes found myself conscious of the FONT, rather than lost in the story. A font should never draw attention to itself. Amiante fails that test. IMHO. YMMV.
David, didn't the Destiny trilogy allow you to finally quit your pesky day job? Or was it The Calling? (I'll read it when I'm settled in the States, promise!)Well, some things have changed in the five years since you last wrote a Trek novel, Mike....
^ No, my wife finishing grad school and getting a full-time job with health insurance enabled me to leave my day job. I am now practicing such phrases as "Would you like fries with that?" and "Would you like to super-size that for just 39 cents more?" and "Drive up to window two, please."
No, that was the other David Mack — the one who draws Kabuki and Daredevil. As for the flatulence problem, that was John Ordover's chief contribution to our former writing partnership.
LOL, I just hope you never need to use them, unless it's in a novel.
Once Sorrows of Empire is done and dusted, what's next?
^ My next book scheduled for publication after The Sorrows of Empire is my Abramsverse book, More Beautiful Than Death, which I think comes out in August. After that, my next scheduled Star Trek novel is my post-Destiny spy-thriller, Zero Sum Game (in November, I think).
I also have a top-secret writing project (currently in progress) that will be announced in February, so stay tuned for more on that.
I also have a top-secret writing project (currently in progress) that will be announced in February, so stay tuned for more on that.
All cool stuff.
If you're able to hint at least: Is it a piece of original fiction or a licensed piece
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^ Sorry, can't say anything about it at the moment. I have to follow the publisher's lead on this one.
When I agreed to take on the fortieth-anniversary trilogy, I signed up for approximately 100,000 words per book. As I began plotting out Provenance of Shadows, though, I understood that, owing to the complexities of the tale I wanted to tell, combined with my style of writing, the novel would doubtless exceed that by a significant amount. I brought this to the attention of my editor, Marco Palmieri, since he would need to know. I explained to him what I wanted to do, and he too saw that the result for the McCoy volume of the Crucible trilogy would be long. He did not object.
I completed my narrative outline for Provenance, which came in at 37 pages. This immediately told me that the novel would likely end up somewhere between 750 and 900 pages in manuscript form, and possibly longer. As it turned out, the first draft came in at 1,100 pages, about 225,000 words. Even then, I could have easily penned another 400 pages.
When Marco and I got to the editing stage, we couldn't find much to excise, though we tried. We did some trimming, and some outright deletion, but in the end, Provenance still turned out long. With the magic of microscopic fonts, fine pages, and inline chapter headings, the manuscript got shrunken down so that it could fit reasonably in a smaller number of pages for the paperback, but I still think readers can use the edition as a bookmark if they so choose.
So if a Sony is better than a Kindle, I'm not getting either. Tried out a Sony at Wal-Mart and discovered that the text just not get large enough to be worth the effort.
The Sony has three text sizes and even my father can read the largest one. He's practically blind without his glasses. The new Sony PRS-700 (I think) has six text sizes.
Is your father legally blind or just very nearsighted and not used to using his functional vision?
Because I am legally blind, and I had to get right up to the screen in order to read the text. I can't remember which version it was.
Because I am legally blind, and I had to get right up to the screen in order to read the text. I can't remember which version it was.
I'm not sure how one would describe his vision. I suspect that were he in the US he would be classified as legally blind since he can no longer do simple tasks without his glasses plastered to his face.
Did you adjust the text size on the model you were looking at or just use the text size that was on screen?
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