Camorr - News and Views from Scott Lynch's Locke Lamora books

Well, I take it to mean the book is very close to being finished. If the edits aren't extensive, I would hope to see the book in early 2010.

Ok, thanks :) It seems he's currently 'editing' it himself, judging by his twitter, so hopefully that will cut the editing process as a whole anyway.

Spider, he's making the report in the next two days, and he def did a reading and apparently it was good :)

I can't wait for the RoT announcement either!

I wish he'd just post a bloody excerpt! If he's allowed to read them then surely he's allowed to post them!

The july date for RoT is reasonable, I guess, even though we're still unsure if Scott's handed in the manuscript (I get the impression he's still writing/editing), and if that's the case we wont be seeing it until fall/winter 2010.

I don't believe the TBatK is out next year. Not for a second.

I imagine it would be that exactly, plus the now added pressure of being extremely late with delivering the book, especially considering he was so positive he would never ever hand a manuscript in late. Oh, and his personal problems too, which undoubtedly hindered his writing. At any rate, it doesn't take two minutes to drop us a note on Livejournal/twitter.

Doesn't he have swine flu atm? Or did have. I'd count that as a personal problem. It's none of my business anyways, I'd just like a few updates every now and again, as you said. It's really not too much to ask.

Haha, smoothly done ;) Merry christmas too <3

This is all I've heard:

"The manuscript has not been handed in at this point, though Lynch recently confirmed it will be out in 2010."

They'll have to do some fast editing if that's the case. Or maybe it just means very late 2010. In all honesty, I reckon we'll be waiting until early 2011, but I could be entirely wrong, of course (and pleasantly surprised).

I agree. It turns out that Scott is actually handing in the manuscript chunks at a time, which I guess is good news. Better some than nothing.

Scott's wife said, 'Scott is working on TRoT, and I have been reading portions of it that have been sent off to his editors. Ya'll will love it. That's all I will say.'

Reading that again, I might have misinterpreted. Rather, she's been reading bits and pieces in general.

New rumor but it comes from trustworthy people!

RoT is currently being edited and is scheduled to be released in January 2011?

http://forums.terrybrooks.net/PostView.aspx?postid=821917

RE: Scott Lynch?
Posted: 1/25/2010 9:24:18 PM
When I wrote his editor in October-ish, she said he was finishing up her final edits for the new book.

I didn't know about the H1N1 thing. That sucks. I hope he is okay too.

I'll shoot Anne an email and ask.

RE: Scott Lynch?
Posted: Yesterday @ 9:48 AM
Both Scott and his wife are fine.

So fine, in fact, that Scott should be delivering his final edited draft of Republic to Anne on Wednesday. Smile

January 2011 is the publishing date Random House wants to go with. Very Happy

I am not super familiar with this process either, but I think in this case one of the reasons is that Random has lots of important releases this year. They may want to spread them around. Furthermore RoT will need a bit of extra promo since we have not heard from Scott Lynch for a while... People may have lost interest.
I think if they wanted to they could publish the book in 6-8 months, but there are other considerations...

Still annoying that we have to wait another whole year. Damn, it better be worth the wait, seriously. I have to admit, I didn't think a 2010 release looked likely all things considering, but I still had hope.

I just can't wait until it's out :) I wish we could get another excerpt, hehe. Too much to ask of Mr Lynch, I suspect. We'll just have to wait ;)

(Sorry for the down time, our domain expired but Rob kindly sorted it out today :) )

Yep, from Bantam Spectra Twitter: http://twitter.com/BantamSpectra
Then, Anne Groell (Spectra senior editor) told us we will--hopefully--be seeing Scott Lynch's REPUBLIC OF THIEVES #spring2011

Not surprising since the UK publisher has the rights to publish it first. So if the US release is Spring 2011, maybe holidays/Winter 2010-11 for UK.

This is good news and very encouraging, although I’d still like to hear something from the author himself. I think it’s also a good idea that the US and UK releases are going to be simultaneous. The publishers as much as the author need this release to be successful. If it flops then there is a very real danger that the rest of the series will never see the light of day. The delay makes this the most important release of Scott’s fledgling career. I hope that the long time between manuscript being delivered and published is being used to work on Volume 4 to ensure that there won’t be as long a wait with that. Releasing the short story collection, if it’s completed, in between RoT and The Thorn of Emberlain would also be a wise move, as even if there is a lengthy wait for TToE, fans will be kept happy and also intrigued.

Whoa! Them’s fightin’ words, Sabetha! J
RoT really does need to be a winner on a few fronts for Scott and the continuation of the series. I’m going to go into ‘if’ territory here. If RoT comes out when we have been lead to believe it will and if is successful and if it is soon followed by The Thorn of Emberlain (I wonder if that’s Locke or someone else?) then I think Gollancz will commit to the last 2 books. That Scott has a 5 book deal does not surprise, actually it does. To give a new author that many books shows how much faith the publisher has in the work and the writer. I hadn’t heard that he didn’t intend to do the short stories until the end of the GB series (do you have a link to that?), in fact because one of the stories concerns the acquisition of the cask of Austershalin in TLoLL I think it would be a good idea to publish them in between instalments of the main series so that people don’t forget what they’re about.
While I wouldn’t call Scott’s radio silence disrespectful, it’s his blog, he can do what he wants with it, it is unnecessary, and probably not the wisest move he’s made careerwise. With the author unwilling to talk up, or even talk about, a new release, then that means the publisher has to work that much harder to promote it and ultimately they will recover those costs from the sale of the novel, which, depending on his deal, could affect the author’s cut.

Interesting that Scott's site now seems to have a problem. I can't even hit it, anymore. Maybe he's decided to take it off the air.
It does make sense for him to concentrate on the main series before doing the short stories, but it would be nice if he had them partially completed and could finish them off and release them in between books, thus keeping the fans happy, while they wait for new ones.
Let's hope we can get RoT in our hands before we start theorising about ToE, although the idea just hit me when I was looking at the title. Locke has always been the Thorn of Camorr, so I just wondered if he could also be the Thorn of Emberlain. Poor Jean. I hope he can be something other than Locke's nursemaid and peacemaker.

Ditto. I'd wanted an explanation on his absence for a long time, but I never wanted the reason behind it to be so severe. I hope things start looking up for him.