for the authors

[ronny]

For Space 1999 it was "anything goes"

There are new Space: 1999 books? Need to start looking around...

Gerry Anderson tie-ins I would love to read and write: UFO all the way, baby!

You are so right. I would love UFO books. I like Space:1999 in a sort of TOS Season 3 kind of way, well the first season, the second season is just bad. But UFO is a really fun series.

 

[Trent Roman]

^ I thought it was "don't underestimate the wrath of TerriO".

The difference being...?

The power of TerriO gives off a nice, even tan. The wrath of TerriO leaves third-degree burns.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Mistral]

Terrio-this can be closed if you want from my viewpoint as my questions were answered and answered well.

Uhm, I think mods can only close threads in the forums they're assigned to. So in this case only Emh or Rosalind could close it (or an admin).

Sorry. My mistake-but it is Friday. Friday is not my day to keep track of who's modding who. Tuesday is my day.

 

[Greg Cox]

Remember, though, that book publishers often use a slightly different way of actually calculating word counts, since a raw number (say, from a computer word-count function) doesn't accurately reflect the whitespace from paragraph breaks, chapter breaks, etc., all of which affect a book's physical length.

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Also, speaking as an editor, the exact word count doesn't really matter in book publishing. Authors get paid by the book, not by the word, so it's not like magazine publishing where the exact word count actually determines the payment.

 

[Marco Palmieri]

Also, speaking as an editor, the exact word count doesn't really matter in book publishing. Authors get paid by the book, not by the word, so it's not like magazine publishing where the exact word count actually determines the payment.

QFT. Even the anthologies I've undertaken have paid by the story. The one exception in Star Trek--I think--was Strange New Worlds, which paid its contributors by the word. Folks more knowledgable in matters pertaining to SNW will no doubt correct me if I'm mistaken about that.

 

[Mistral]

Yeah, I was pretty certain of that, Greg. My primary concern was defining what to call the beast I wrote. WORD claims it has 134 pages and 66,000 words(rounded)-so I guess a short novel. It sure felt like more-I've been working on it on and off since March or early April.

 

[William Leisner]

The one exception in Star Trek--I think--was Strange New Worlds, which paid its contributors by the word. Folks more knowledgable in matters pertaining to SNW will no doubt correct me if I'm mistaken about that.

You are correct, sir. (Not taking into account the prize money for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners.)

 

[Steve Roby]

Drifting off-topic for just a sec:

There are new Space: 1999 books? Need to start looking around...

Really small publisher, really long wait between books. But some good stuff so far. Only three original novels so far. Can't wait for Lonemagpie's.

Gerry Anderson tie-ins I would love to read and write: UFO all the way, baby!

Powys Media has the rights for Space: 1999 and Prisoner novels (and only one of those is generally available so far, but it's great), but not UFO. Alas. The only two UFO novels were novelizations published back in the early 1970s.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Anyhow, I delivered my Space 1999 book 11 months ago, got paid for it, so... it's out of my hands when they get round to publishing it.

 

[Andrew Harris]

Remember, though, that book publishers often use a slightly different way of actually calculating word counts, since a raw number (say, from a computer word-count function) doesn't accurately reflect the whitespace from paragraph breaks, chapter breaks, etc., all of which affect a book's physical length.

Also, speaking as an editor, the exact word count doesn't really matter in book publishing. Authors get paid by the book, not by the word, so it's not like magazine publishing where the exact word count actually determines the payment.

Because, of course, if writers were paid by the word, the stories would never end...

 

[Dayton Ward]

Drifting off-topic for just a sec:

...

Powys Media has the rights for Space: 1999 and Prisoner novels (and only one of those is generally available so far, but it's great), but not UFO. Alas. The only two UFO novels were novelizations published back in the early 1970s.

I absolutely love The Prisoner, and my inner nerd still has a soft spot for Space: 1999. Writing for either of those properties would be a blast.

Hmmmm......

 

[ronny]

Because, of course, if writers were paid by the word, the stories would never end...

Man, if writers were paid by the word David R George would have more houses than McCain from Provenance of Shadows alone.

 

[TGTheodore]

Even the anthologies I've undertaken have paid by the story. The one exception in Star Trek--I think--was Strange New Worlds, which paid its contributors by the word. Folks more knowledgable in matters pertaining to SNW will no doubt correct me if I'm mistaken about that.

So that's why Dean edited out my 1000 uses of "very" in each of my three stories ...

--Ted

 

[JAG]

^ I thought it was "don't underestimate the wrath of TerriO".

The difference being...?

I know she won't bother to waste it on the likes of us.

 

[Greg Cox]

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Because, of course, if writers were paid by the word, the stories would never end...

So you've read VARNEY THE VAMPYRE then . . . .

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I found a three volume set of Varney on the shelf at my university library. I was curious. I checked out the first volume. It was ginormous.

Somewhere around page 75 I said, "Sod this," and I never looked back.

 

[Trent Roman]

So you've read VARNEY THE VAMPYRE then . . . .

"Varney was a vampyre/
From Rymer's imagination/
When he talked he never stopped/
It led to much frustration."



Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Greg Cox]

So you've read VARNEY THE VAMPYRE then . . . .

"Varney was a vampyre/
From Rymer's imagination/
When he talked he never stopped/
It led to much frustration."



Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

Hah! Where is that from?

Some critic once wrote that "VARNEY teaches us that you must never give a vampire too much moonlight or pay a writer by the word . . . ."

(Or words to that effect.)

 

[KRAD]

QFT. Even the anthologies I've undertaken have paid by the story. The one exception in Star Trek--I think--was Strange New Worlds, which paid its contributors by the word. Folks more knowledgable in matters pertaining to SNW will no doubt correct me if I'm mistaken about that.

You are mistaken about that. I paid the contributors to No Limits and Tales of the Dominion War by the word. I went with a flat rate for Tales from the Captain's Table, however.

 

[Marco Palmieri]

You are mistaken about that.

My record of fallibility remains unblemished!