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Any news on Peace Talks
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Kindler on December 04, 2019, 08:05:27 PM ---Magic in the DV has been consistent from book one. The rules were obviously thought out beforehand, and I can't pinpoint anywhere they're broken.
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There is a lot of early installment weirdness. I'd say the "rules" for the series isn't really on solid ground until book 4 or 5.
(click to show/hide)Storm Front, the first book, matches the tone of the later installments fairly well, but refers to some world-building concepts that were changed in later entries of the series. For instance, there's a reference to vampires being unable to enter homes uninvited because they're creatures of the Nevernever, and need to expend constant effort to maintain corporeal form, and crossing a threshold uninvited blocks power. The threshold-blocking-power bit is maintained in later books, but vampires are later established to not be from the Nevernever, and only some breeds really have to worry about invitations. Also, there's a reference to a singular Queen of the Fae, while late installments establish two separate Fae courts, with three Queens each.
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In Fool Moon, Harry summons the demon Chaunzaggaroth. His conversation with him makes it very clear that Chauncy is supposed to be a fire-and-brimstone Dante's Inferno demon, with it referring to Saint Patrick and the Catholic Church as "the other side." But in Death Masks he tells Murphy that "demons" are just harmful spirits from the Nevernever and that the Fallen which empower the Knights of the Blackened Denarius are the only true Biblical enemies-of-God demons that are active in the world.
Later books also establish that some regions of the Nevernever closely resemble the various underworlds of human myth, so it's possible that Chaunzaggaroth simply comes from a region that mimics Fire and Brimstone Hell, and deliberately milks that cliche in his conversation with Harry.https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/EarlyInstallmentWeirdness/Literature
Just Al:
Apropo of nothing, Locus magazine has again listed a publication date for Peace Talks. They list an April 2020 release, but only in the UK, which strikes me as odd. I've noticed that, in general, British authors have an earlier release date for their works in the UK. North American authors have an earlier release date in NA, and most release on either side of the Atlantic on the same date.
spiritofair:
--- Quote from: segaily on December 04, 2019, 12:12:12 AM ---Having worked from home the lack of space makes sense to me when combined with the house building as covering a fair amount of lost time. When I first started working from home I would set up anywhere and it took me a while to realize I was getting almost nothing done. Then I cleaned out a space for a small office and things got a lot better. If Jim did the same thing we wasted a chunk of time not really thinking about the fact he was getting almost nothing done on the dinning room table. Then he may have been thinking the new house will be ready soon not worth worry about I will carry on this way. Then the house kept having delays.
This does not explain all of the delay but I think the lack of writing space was certainly real and cost him a good chunk of time.
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Four additional years, though? Lack of a writing space was way too high on the excuse list. Hell, just say, "I haven't been in the right frame of mind for a bunch of reasons and had to take a break." I'd be fine with that. But not being able to find a place to write for 4 years? 4 freaking years?!?! I mean, come on. That's just blowing smoke and feels completely disingenuous. If he really wanted to be writing, he'd have found a space in which he could write. Get a larger apartment for God's sake. Rent a house. Four years is a long damn time to be in limbo. I can't imagine putting up with that. Maybe a year, max. I'd much rather have just heard, "Sorry folks, I had to take a break. I'll get back to writing as soon as I can!"
g33k:
--- Quote from: spiritofair on December 06, 2019, 12:36:07 AM --- Four additional years, though? Lack of a writing space was way too high on the excuse list ...
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<baffled shrug>
What... now you're asking for a ranked list? "This contributed 45% to the slowdown, that was responsible for 20%," etc...?
It was part and parcel of a big stack of things. Which one(s) impacted him worse may well have varied on a daily / weekly / etc basis, and have evolved and changed as his circumstances changed. Maybe it's just the one that was most on his mind in the moment that he listed the reasons.
Collectively, they probably didn't only interfere with writing... they probably interfered with figuring out how to fix the slowdowns.
And in the end... do we really care that much, now that his productivity seems to be restored? Do we "need to know" and moreover... are we in ANY way entitled to know?
g33k:
--- Quote from: Just Al on December 05, 2019, 09:33:29 PM --- Apropo of nothing, Locus magazine has again listed a publication date for Peace Talks. They list an April 2020 release...
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IIRC, this matches the (probable mis-)information given upthread, which I presume originated with Amazon.
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