Mistborn Reads

[EUOL]

Moshe's Response:

Subject: Mr. Prolific [tm]

Dear Brandon,

Well, what an interesting and pleasant surprise. You certainly are productive!

Of course you may send me both when they're ready. I'm certainly open to swapping MISTBORN and TWoK if that seems advantageous, and it's not impossible that we'd just go ahead and buy MISTBORN now anyway. My confidence in your future success has only deepened after my work on ELANTRIS and your response to it, and I might well be able to convince Tom to 'up the ante' of our investment in your career.

I look forward to both.

But for now, please spend as much time as possible in Opelon. The sooner you finish, the sooner we can start having people read it.

Best,

Moshe

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

sweet. It's got to be cool to have people tell you they want to invest in your career.

[House of Mustard]

Wow EUOL, that's awesome.

This may be a dumb question: what's Opelon?

[EUOL]

World that ELANTRIS takes place in.

[Prometheus]

Sounds like a fairly normal 'do what we told you to do response' at the end, although the rest is very, very cool.

Incidentally, I thought that the release date for Elantris was already decided, and couldn't be sped up by any work you have left to do. Is he referring more to a different Opelon work?

As long as EUOL is likely to look at this, I've had a really slow day at work today, and I'm most of the way done with the WotK: Part 1 binder already, so I'd have to be a real flake to not get it done by the end of the week like we talked about.

[EUOL]

"Having people read it" refers to reviewers and potential cover-quoters.  

It sure would be great if I could pick up Pt1 on Friday, Prometheus.  I'm going out of town on Saturday, and would like to take it with me.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

My confidence in your future success has only deepened after my work on ELANTRIS and your response to it

Meaning he said "this needs to be changed here and here and here and here" and you said "Yes sir Mr. Editor sir!" instead of "I am an artiste! You cannot alter my baby!"

--ah, I have to go. Will post more later.

[EUOL]

lol.  Yes, I'm pretty open to changes.  Moshe was astounded when I quickly agreed to some major changes, such as name swaps and the like.  I thought the suggestions made sense, and I figured Moshe knew what he was doing--he's been doing this for a while, after all.  My job is to write books.  His job is to make sure they sell as well as they can.  I don't understand who would complain about that.  

[fuzzyoctopus]

EUOL, here's some female emotional motivation for you.

I'm feeling very left out that I was reading Mistborn before and now everyone BUT me is reading it.

[Brenna]

If it makes you feel better, Fuzzy, I don't have a copy yet either.

[42]

I'm working on the paper copy as fast I as can. Unfortunately, this book is a monstrous beast. On the good side, it is a lot better than the first version, which I put down about two-thirds through because I was so bored with it.

[EUOL]

Brenna:
Sorry!  42 grabbed it first.


Fuzzy:  
I haven't given up on that reading group idea.  However, you're going to be moving away soon, right?

[fuzzyoctopus]

Jury's still out on the moving. We were moving, then we were not, now we still are, but we might just be moving to another town nearby.

J.T.'s really set on working with Lucid Raven full time if he can, and if it's doable then we'd be staying around.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

If it makes you feel better Fuzzy, I haven't had the time yet to actually read anything except up to that beginning thing before Chapter 1 starts.

[fuzzyoctopus]

That's very niceof you Gemm, and I appreciate it. I just hate having our plans be up in the air.  It's somewhat disconcerting not knowing if I'm going to be moving in a month and a half, and if I were moving WHERE I'd be moving to.