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Rob Santa
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| Posted 9/18/2007 9:01 AM (GMT -4) |   | | Reading the submissions and doing copyediting for Black Dragon, White Dragon was a piece of cake. Bill and I left the window open for Magic & Mechanica longer than I really wanted to, but it produced some good material. I wasn't worried about the extension because copyediting BDWD was so easy I knew we could easily get everything ready for the October release I had planned.
Well, that may have been naive (and you may freely translate "may have been" to mean "was"). We are in the third week of September with the finished book one of Magistria not yet in my hands, BDWD still not perfect, and M&M only just beginning the editing phase.
I've never done this before, and when I set my timeline back in January I felt three months from ending all reading periods to having finished product was more than enough time (heck, I even looked through the rose-colored glasses and called it a September/October release in case I was finished early). I now know that's impossible and have been fighting the denial of it for a few weeks.
So I will officially make the announcement Ricasso Press will not have its doors open in October. Truth be told, I don't know how long this limbo-like wrapping up time takes, but I plan on having books on virtual shelves before the end of the year. I'm going to pour the majority of my obsessive compulsive disorder into getting this done and will keep everyone updated throughout the process.
Rob Santa Hopelessly Addicted Writer of Speculative Fiction
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anna
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| Posted 9/18/2007 12:37 PM (GMT -4) | | | Don't stress about it, Rob. Good things are worth waiting for, and as everyone here is an aspiring writer, we have surely learned the lesson of patience. | | Back to Top | | |
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MichaelEhart
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| Posted 9/18/2007 1:29 PM (GMT -4) | | No stress, man.
Buy my book!
The Servant of the Manthycore available Nov. 17th from DEP
Illustrated by Rachel Marks, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock
Read me in 2007!
"The View From the Shotglass Floor" Ray Gun Revival, Feb 2007
"Voice of the Spoiler" The Sword Review, June 2007
"Servant of the Manthycore" The Sword Review, July 2007
"Darkling I Listen; and for Many a Time" Fear and Trembling, coming soon!
"Weaving Spiders Come Not Here" The Sword Review, August 2007
"Six Zombies Doing That Mick Jagger Strut" Damned in Dixie, Summer 2007
"Nothing But Our Tears" The Sword Review, September 2007
"Night of Shadows, Night of Knives" Magic and Mechanica, Fall 2007
"The Scarlet Colored Beast" The Sword Review, October 2007
"The Stars by Law, Forbidden" Unparalleled Journeys II, November 2007
"Who Comes for the Mother's Fruit" Every Day Fiction, November 2007
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Dru
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| Posted 9/18/2007 3:11 PM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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Pagadan
Stablehand
Date Joined Apr 2007
Total Posts : 30
| Posted 9/19/2007 12:57 AM (GMT -4) | | | Rob,
Thanks for the update. It's appreciated. Not to fret. You're busy juggling these projects, and all we have to do is wait.
Joy V. Smith
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Firlefanz
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| Posted 9/20/2007 11:35 AM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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Saanen
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| Posted 9/20/2007 12:55 PM (GMT -4) | |
Rob Santa said...And the funny thing...I'm already thinking about the next antho. I must be nuts.
Oh goodie! Not goodie that you're nuts, I mean, goodie about a new antho. :)
"Honeymoon" Desolate Places, Hadley Rille Books
"Sawmill Road" & "Bad Luck," Every Day Fiction
"Trompe L'Oeil" Staffs & Starships #1
"Sea and Sky" Black Dragon, White Dragon, Ricasso Press
"Final Episode" Triangulations 2007: End of Time | | Back to Top | | |
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Hamstersbane
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Date Joined Feb 2007
Total Posts : 375
| Posted 9/20/2007 1:06 PM (GMT -4) | |
Firlefanz said...Rob, even though I'm not in any of your anthologies, I wanted to say this: The way you have been communicating throughout the start of Ricasso Press has been simply wonderful. Admitting to that delay can't have been easy, but you did it and are honest about it. You deserve a sounding round of applause! 
I want to second that, Rob. You (and Mr. Ward, as well) have been more than fair with my own personal brand of insanity. While I don't enjoy getting rejections, I've been more than happy with our correspondence and your professionalism.
Which means, of course, that I plan to torture you with more of my writing when you announce another anthology. 
Jeff Parish Jennings Grove, an online horror serial novel | | Back to Top | | |
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C.Cevasco
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| Posted 9/20/2007 3:51 PM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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MichaelEhart
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| Posted 9/20/2007 5:02 PM (GMT -4) | | Okay, I am ready to submit to that :)
Buy my book!
The Servant of the Manthycore available Nov. 17th from DEP
Illustrated by Rachel Marks, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock
Read me in 2007!
"The View From the Shotglass Floor" Ray Gun Revival, Feb 2007
"Voice of the Spoiler" The Sword Review, June 2007
"Servant of the Manthycore" The Sword Review, July 2007
"Darkling I Listen; and for Many a Time" Fear and Trembling, coming soon!
"Weaving Spiders Come Not Here" The Sword Review, August 2007
"Six Zombies Doing That Mick Jagger Strut" Damned in Dixie, Summer 2007
"Nothing But Our Tears" The Sword Review, September 2007
"Night of Shadows, Night of Knives" Magic and Mechanica, Fall 2007
"The Scarlet Colored Beast" The Sword Review, October 2007
"The Stars by Law, Forbidden" Unparalleled Journeys II, November 2007
"Who Comes for the Mother's Fruit" Every Day Fiction, November 2007
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Saanen
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Total Posts : 146
| Posted 9/20/2007 6:08 PM (GMT -4) | | | Okay, that is incredibly awesome and cool.
I don't know if I'll be able to come up with anything for it, but I sure as hell want to read it. :)
Kate Shaw
"Honeymoon" Desolate Places, Hadley Rille Books
"Sawmill Road" & "Bad Luck," Every Day Fiction
"Trompe L'Oeil" Staffs & Starships #1
"Sea and Sky" Black Dragon, White Dragon, Ricasso Press
"Final Episode" Triangulations 2007: End of Time | | Back to Top | | |
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Firlefanz
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| Posted 9/20/2007 6:25 PM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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Gustavo
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Date Joined Aug 2007
Total Posts : 1067
| Posted 9/20/2007 11:26 PM (GMT -4) | | Rob, two things:
1. Having been writing for some years, I have to say that your policy of being completely open with your writers is really a breath of fresh air. I don't think anyone is going to begrudge you a month or two to fine tune your antho. On the contrary - writers want to appear in high quality forums.
2. Hope to have something for the new antho as soon as guidelines are announced! It's great that you've got another project on tap. | | Back to Top | | |
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Mindwing
Stablehand
Date Joined Mar 2007
Total Posts : 31
| Posted 9/24/2007 10:40 PM (GMT -4) | | | Thanks so much for the update.
Since I am a new writer, and you are printing my firstborn in your anthology BDWD, I am sitting at the edge of my chair, breathlessly waiting for the first copies. But I will force myself to be patient, because all babies need clean didies and need to be powdered and sweet smelling when company arrives.
New anthology, hmm. I have a story of an everyman who hooks up with a magician whose hiding in the woods and they are forced to flee a monster and lead it away from civilization.
Wonder if it will fit. I guess I'll just have to send it when you open submissions.
good luck as you go through the rest of the publishing process.
Mindwing
"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it
right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon." Robert Cormier
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