Author Reveals Future Book & Series To Terminally Ill Fan To Fulfill His Wish
from the being-awesome dept
We've been talking about the value of content creators being awesome (and human), so it's always nice to highlight a few stories of that in practice. Late last week a story made the rounds of how a terminally ill cancer patient, Nachu Bhatnagar, was disappointed that he might not find out how his favorite book series, The War That Came Early, by Harry Turtledove, would turn out. The next book in the series is expected to be released in July, but apparently Bhatnagar isn't expected to make it that far. Bhatnagar's friend, who's known as kivakid on Reddit posted about the situation, wondering if he could get an early copy of the book. Within hours, he had a galley copy being sent to him, and also arranged for a phone call between Bhatnagar and Turtledove, so that the plans for the rest of the series could be revealed.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Added to list of authors to check out...
Like all my other favorite authors, I'll probably buy every book he has available if I like one of his books -- oh, hell, I'll probably just buy his book instead to see if I like it...paperback version is really cheap.
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Heh, spoke to soon. Gotta turn off the proxy server. Apparently the e-book and snippet are available in the US.
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Perfect Example
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I have to admit though I've enjoyed his writing over the years and this sort of involvement with the fans gives me another reason to like him and add him to a shortlist of authors who've gone above and beyond with fans, another is Piers Anthony one of the recurring characters in the Xanth novels (Jenny the Elf) was modelled off a fan who a victim of a hit and run. It was good to hear about her progress in the author's letters in the novels, and about other fans and their input entering the novels.
On a related note sometimes publishers will help with engaging with fans Jim Baen (owner and founder of the Baen publishing house a major publisher of science fiction) before he passed away established a free online library which had selected works from Baen writers such as David Weber (with their approval and support) which provide in some cases an introduction to certain series (for myself Weber's Honourverse books), and with their books is usually included a CD which includes all the previous titles in the series and other novels or stories that might be of interest. Sadly Jim has been dead for about 4-5 years now, along with some of the more engaging writers I've had contact with over the years.
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Whenever I'm on the precipice of disowning my fellow humans something like this happens.
God, cancer is so unfair.
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This could be...
An honest and true smile, when combined with effective medicine is truly a powerful combination
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Response to: Tom Landry on Feb 27th, 2012 @ 9:13pm
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"PLEASE TAKE MY MONEY"
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/p7kfg/my_friend_has_terminal_cancer_and_may_die_by_june /c3ncjuo
Where the post author wants to give the author money but can't b/c there isn't an ebook kindle version (in their _english speaking_? country?).
Classic example of how systems aren't setup to actually just give authors the money you think they deserve. Also Del-Ray earned some Kudos here too.
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What actually really messes me up is that the Kindle version is actually almost twice as expensive as the paperback. How does that even make sense? Unfortunately I already have enough dead trees in my house.
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Incidentally, I think the Honor Harrington books come with a CD that has ebook versions of all the previous books, and a selection from the free library as well?
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Many of their dead tree editions have come out with an enclosed CD. A fansite has consolidated them at http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/
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I highly highly recommend checking out the Baen site, and if you wanted, you could toss a few dollars donation at their Free Library: maybe you can't support Turtledove's action that way, but you can support the company that supports him!
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sales boost after this?
To be clear, I'm not suggesting anything like exploitation, just that true good deeds are rewarded, and I'm curious if we can quantify that.
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Freetard!! >:-0
nope, cant do it. cant even fake troll. this is an amazing story. never heard of turtledove, and not really a fan of alternate histories (always afraid that later down the road i'll confuse the "real" history with the "fictional" history...even though i'm aware that "real" history is also a lot of fiction) but this incredible nonetheless.
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That should never be a problem. You just always have to remember that the more insane outlandish one is the "real" history.
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Great video
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Good Deed
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