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• Charlie Stross commented on Coming next July
  what causes the 8 month+ delay? I can't imagine it is printing or distribution by this point. I've written about this at length: grisly details here....
• Charlie Stross commented on Coming next July
  The name CHARLES STROSS is so big that it leaps out of the cover, along with that huge FACE. I hadn't actually noticed that until you pointed it out ... but you just made my day! (In general, you can sell a book to a reader unfamiliar with an author's work on the basis of it's cover illo/blurbs/appearance, or by the author's name. The latter only works if the author is someone the potential customer has heard of. Hence the term "big name author" -- it's someone who is now big enough that emphasizing their name on the dust jacket...
• brucecohenpdx commented on Coming next July
  Definitely something to look forward to....
• Charlie Stross commented on Coming next July
  Since precisely that incident! This is how the secret services currently operate, not how they operated during the Crazy Years between the Philby/Burgess/Maclean/Blunt spy ring and the plot to overthrow Harold Wilson in the early 1970s. (Which failed, leading to numerous early retirements, and the imposition of this directive -- which makes a certain sense, because by the time anyone climbs through the British political framework to cabinet level the security services have already had a couple of decades to vet them, so if the PM is a KGB mole, it's evidence of gross incompetence on the part of the...
• trjbennett commented on Coming next July
  Splendid, I'm rather looking forward to this - I've been a big fan of the Laundry novels etc. so far....