{"id":79,"date":"2007-02-19T17:24:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T22:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/?p=42"},"modified":"2017-02-12T18:21:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T18:21:33","slug":"additional-notes-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2007\/02\/19\/additional-notes-comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional Notes & Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people have wondered whether I could justify charging 2.5 times as much per chapter this time as I did for The Spriggan Mirror<\/em>; well, it’s only this past week that The Vondish Ambassador<\/em> has finally taken in as much money as the serial of The Spriggan Mirror<\/em> did. That first serial brought in far<\/em> more than I’d expected.<\/p>\n

Both serials came to about 82,000 words; The Spriggan Mirror<\/em> gets that by rounding up, The Vondish Ambassador<\/em> by rounding down.<\/p>\n

The final draft of The Spriggan Mirror<\/em> ran a little over 90,000 words; The Vondish Ambassador<\/em> feels a little rougher to me than Mirror<\/em> did, so I expect it to run a bit more than that.<\/p>\n

Am I going to do more serials? I don’t know. Not right away; I need to concentrate on stuff that pays better, and I want to incorporate some lessons I’ve learned and not do such a rush job next time. I do hope to tackle more eventually, and not just Ethshar, but sequels to some of my other work where there are marketing reasons to not try to sell them through the major publishers — such as my science fiction.<\/p>\n

Specifically, I’m considering offering serials of the third War Surplus novel and the second Carlisle Hsing novel — the working titles are respectively The Exile and the Empire<\/em>, and Realms of Light<\/em>. I also plotted a sequel to Shining Steel<\/em> long ago that might be worth a shot, and a prequel to Denner’s Wreck<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And as for Ethshar, I know a lot of you want to see The Final Calling<\/em> next, but I’m not sure how much I want to write it, so I am not<\/em> promising it’ll be next. There are several other candidates.<\/p>\n

Comments on all these subjects are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some people have wondered whether I could justify charging 2.5 times as much per chapter this time as I did for The Spriggan Mirror; well, it’s only this past week that The Vondish Ambassador has finally taken in as much money as the serial of The Spriggan Mirror did. That first serial brought in far… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}