On 107, 108, 109?
]]>Makes sense. But I'd stop at about 1/16 of an inch. 1 or 2 mm.
]]>For those of us who are antipodeans, has the standard commonwealth promotion system for academics been broken (for the yanks Lecturer --> Senior Lecturer --> Associate Prof --> Prof is the same as Assistant Prof --> Associate Prof -->Prof --> Chair and Head of Department). It's diffucult enough dealing with Canadians and Americans who follow academic trends with evangelical fervor, let alone the Managerialist corruption of the accepted "red brick" University Grades.
Finally, Charlie, no snarks about the advance. It sounds about right -- and given that the average house in Edinburgh is going for over 270K you will need all the shekels you can keep.
]]>It depends.
My primary publishers are American, and handle copyediting and typesetting (both outsourced). My UK publishers try to keep publication in lock-step, buying in the typeset DTP files and printing as close to simultaneously as possible, but this requires experienced editors who are on the ball -- we had a bit of an oopsie with "The Apocalypse Codex" because there'd been a change of personnel at Orbit the previous year that lost the institutional knowledge of how to do this, but things should work better with "Neptune's Brood".
The six Merchant Princes books were published in the USA between 2003 and 2009; the "director's cut" omnibus editions are an edit-and-polish on those books, so you could in principle just buy the US paperbacks right now -- but I think the omnibus versions read better. And they'll be out in the UK/commonwealth at least a year before they show up in the USA (because the series is already in print there in the original format, and what sane publisher would pull a six-book series that's in print and replace it with a three-book block of omnibus editions that sell for less?).
]]>No idea. I don't think Tor know, either, at this stage.
]]>I'm just hoping the cost of the repair is less than the value of the car, at this stage ...
]]>The gearbox would be repairable, if Volvo sold the parts separately. They don't: they only sell entire gearboxes.
Luckily $GARAGE located a Volvo that had been written off in a crash and arranged a transplant organ. They replaced the clutch (with a new one) at the same time. Total cost including labour and tax was about half the price of a new gearbox from Volvo, but still mildly eye-watering -- it's the most expensive auto repair I've ever paid for.
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