Awake

[JP Dogberry]

I did not write hentai. I wrote a story about a guy with a friend who liked hentai, and who advised him to become a hentai character to please his girlfriend. It was incredibly amusing, but not to anyone mormon. I also have never drawn hentai. My skills aren't yet good enough for that, I need more practice.

[Entsuropi]

 :-/

[Spriggan]

I did not write hentai. I wrote a story about a guy with a friend who liked hentai, and who advised him to become a hentai character to please his girlfriend. It was incredibly amusing, but not to anyone mormon. I also have never drawn hentai. My skills aren't yet good enough for that, I need more practice.

Apperntly it was very amuseing to Entropy either.  The thought of JP's writeing that stuff scares me.  Not because of any moral reasons, it's just that he's JP.

[Entsuropi]

He linked me to it, and i failed to click the link. I've read enough lovecraft to know when to leave things alone

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

"You see a musty tome of gr..."
"I BURN THE BOOK!"
"Don't be hasty. It could have valuable information."
"Trust me. I've played this game. And if there's one thing I know, it's that you ALWAYS burn the book."

[Entsuropi]

Burn down all libraries, never go around without someone else nearby, and leave state when the locals start calling you by name.

[House of Mustard]

But back to the subject at hand (that subject being: Mustard is cool), I just got an email inviting me to be a speaker at the Utah Library Association's annual conference.  Kinda neat.  This will be the first time I've ever had to go anywhere and speak -- other public appearances were all Q&A kinds of things.

[Entsuropi]

Gemm, go and heckle.

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

Is it within the week? Or what? You know. Details like that don't really make you as cool as Fell thinks you are. =P

[House of Mustard]

It's not until May.  Sorry.

[EUOL]

Would it be unethical, when a book was 'sitting in the warehouse, as you mentioned, to send it out to other publishers?  Then if they agree to publish it, you could buy back the rights, knowing you have another outlet.

Never answered this question.  This is a tough one.  The hypothetical is Covenant is sitting on your book, and you want to try and take it nationally.  They have a contract, and you want to get out of it.

This is the sort of thing agents are for.  I'm honestly not sure what you'd do in a situation like this.  I know that it would be hard to get a national publisher to look at a book whose rights they would have to wrestle from another press.  However, I'll bet it could be done.

[Firemeboy]

HOM, are you still planning on being in Layton over General Conference?  If so, I'm going to swing on by to heckle.  I mean, say hello.

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

Hom, just a Q. Have you sent my copy of your book, with included awesome quote, my way yet? Haven't gotten it yetif you have.

[Firemeboy]

Rob, one more question for you.

I just found out that I did a very bad thing.

When covenant was first reviewing my book, the editor wrote to me and said that the book lacked a theme.  I thought about it and realized that this indeed was the case.  I went back and added a running theme throughout the book.  In total, probably only about 800 words or so, but I felt that this made the ok book, a really good book.  I felt that it improved the book a lot.

Well, we started going through edits, back and forth.  We are now sending the book to press (I got the final final today in the mail).  It finally dawned on me that these changes are nowhere to be found!  They used my orignial manuscript to make the changes, and not my new and improved ones.

Are you, or anybody else here, familiar enough with the process to know if there is anyway to get these changes back in there?  Angela told me that for this edit only large glaring edits were possible.  It sounded like it was very difficult to make changes right now.

I'm sick about it.  I don't know quite what to do.

[House of Mustard]

Ugh...  That sucks.

I don't know.  I've only changed typeset twice, and only for really little things -- a couple of spelling errors.  I'm pretty sure they can change it, I just don't know if they will.  Changing it will take a couple of days, which, depending on how tight their schedule is, might bump you to the next month for release.  My advice, though, would be to push them to change it.  One month difference (if that) wouldn't kill you, and you'd be a lot happier with the end result.  My guess is that Covenant would agree with you.

As a matter of fact, email Shauna about it, as well as Angela.

And Gemm: your book is signed and sitting in my car, where it's been sitting for a week.  Sorry!  I'll put it in the mail today.