Steve Simmons <scs at di.org> writes: > Various folks mentions authors being tied to pre-existing contracts that > would prevent the author taking direct control and doing e-publishing: Those contracts generally cover only the next novel, or the next novel in a series, so if that were the only problem, an author could get out >from under it. > I had the pleasure of interviewing George R. R. Martin this past winter, > and he made a comment that was pretty telling. For most of his career, > he wrote novels before selling them. This worked pretty well, letting him > pick and choose what he wanted to write and giving him a lot of > flexibility in dealing with publishers. That's a very unusual choice, though. It's expensive for the author. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info