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Date: 2008-06-23 03:12 pm (UTC)I also tend to wonder if the rights to the Sword of Truth series really worked out for them. It always struck me as if they were going to pay Goodkind as if he were the next Jordan/Martin, but that he never really got to that level despite tons of promotion.
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Date: 2008-06-23 05:30 pm (UTC)I don't know what the details of the new books are, but I have a very strong suspicion that they're not fantasy at all, which makes them a big gamble for any publisher.
And I probably would not characterize this as a "bidding war" -- Anonymous #2 didn't say what the form of the auction was, but if Tor was dropped after a too-low initial bid, it's probably some variety of "best-bid." (And, honestly, thinking about it now, the other bids might be not that much higher than Tor's -- I wouldn't be surprised if the agent and Goodkind had already decided not to take the Tor offer, unless it was really vastly the best offer, to make the break with fantasy more clear and obvious.)
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Date: 2008-06-23 05:32 pm (UTC)The mind boggles.
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Date: 2008-06-23 08:10 pm (UTC)These days no one much cares whether it walks like a duck or quacks like a duck. It's just about whether the sign around its neck says "duck" or "goose".
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Date: 2008-06-23 08:23 pm (UTC)I note that it not only has a former glacial lake like Lake Agassiz, the wildlife mentioned is native to pre-human North and South America....
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Date: 2008-06-25 03:24 pm (UTC)Also, this kind of thing totally tends to be a publisher/marketing decision in which authors don't even necessarily get informed.
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Date: 2008-06-25 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-24 01:35 am (UTC)I'm not entirely sure if Goodkind is looking for a higher critical profile, or greater sales -- or both -- from the mainstream, and without knowing what these books are (even vaguely), it's impossible to say how realistic that hope is.
(My general assumption is that writers' hopes are unrealistic -- and the more successful the writer, the more likely their hopes are to be ever more unrealistic, since they've tasted some success and want more of it. But I am a horrible cynic.)