Snuff

[The Mad Collector]

It's not available anywhere. there is one copy not in Terrys direct control but as the owner has committed to not letting it get into the public domain until after publication you just had to be at convention to hear it read out.

Sorry

[Turtles4Ever]

Interesting - if there is a finished first draft of Snuff, I have to ask: how long, on average, does it usually take for a book to go from first draft to being 100% finished?

If the answer is 'not very long' then perhaps Terry could get this out, say, next Spring so that he goes back to having two books published per year?

Sorry, I know I'm being incredibly greedy but, well, it's Terry. It's Discworld. Need I say more?

[The Mad Collector]

Remember there is the Long Earth project to work on as well so he needs to get this one out of the way. There may be two books a year (or getting back towards that) but they won't both be Discworld

[Turtles4Ever]

Good point, I'd forgotten about that. Well, I can dream.

[Who's Wee Dug]

The 1st draft now ,then end of the year the ARC, then Feb/March the final proof early Summer in time for NADWCon the Launch.

[pip]

Sounds like a reasonable timeline. Plenty of time to re read all of the watch books again in preperation.

[DaveC]

Remember there is the Long Earth project to work on as well so he needs to get this one out of the way. There may be two books a year (or getting back towards that) but they won't both be Discworld

Long Earth?

Is that to do with Nation? I haven't read it yet.

[The Mad Collector]

No Long Earth is a proposed series of Science Fiction rather than Fantasy books Terry is working on with Stephen Baxter

[pip]

The supposed release date of the first long earth book of two is Spring 2012.
I'm fairly sure there's a link to the press release on this site somewhere.
a bit of a change from the discworld books.
might be closer to the likes of Strata.

[DaveC]

Sounds interesting...haven't heard anything abount it here before.

[pip]

Heres the link to the announcement from transworld.
http://www.between-the-lines.co.uk/?p=730
Might be time to start up its own thread anyway.

The release date stated shouldn't interfere too much with Snuff anyway.

[Bouncy Castle]

In Terrys' first klatch at convention he described Snuff as 'a sort of sequel to Thud' sound good to me

Ahh. Thud is one of my least favourite of the books.

[pip]

But Thud was another in a long line of fantastic Watch Books.

I suppose everyone is entitled to an opinion

[Bouncy Castle]

Indeed we are!

I like the Watch books, but Thud just didn't do it for me.

[poohcarrot]

Have to agree with Bouncy on this one. Thud is my least favourite Watch book.