{"id":2672,"date":"2017-03-23T14:06:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2017-03-23T14:06:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T20:06:02","slug":"a-new-old-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2672","title":{"rendered":"A New Old Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

As those of you with tattered old mass-market paperbacks with the woman on the black horse on the cover know, \u00a0 Sheepfarmer’s Daughter<\/em> came out in 1988, as did Divided Allegiance<\/em>, and Oath of Gold<\/em> came out in 1989.\u00a0\u00a0 To celebrate 30 years in print, Baen Books is going to put out an Annversary Edition of them next year, and asked if I would write an introduction to each volume.\u00a0 Of course I said yes, and I’ve roughed out the first one and sent it on to Toni Weisskopf at Baen.<\/p>\n

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Toni would also like to include some comments from readers for whom the books had special meaning (other than just “a ripping good yarn” kind of thing.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of you here and elsewhere have told me at times how the books had an impact on your life, but (lousy housekeeper that I am, mentally and in real life) I don’t have those neatly filed anywhere–and anyway, your permission would be needed to use them publicly.<\/p>\n

So if the books got you through a bad patch, or sticking the big fat omnibus inside your jacket to keep it from being rained on meant that when someone shot at you it saved your life…and you’re willing to comment publicly…please let me know.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you’re a writer and the books inspired you to persist (“Dang that woman–I can write better than SHE can–watch ME get published!!”)\u00a0 that’s something else Toni would like to know about.\u00a0\u00a0 Youngest reader?\u00a0 Oldest reader?\u00a0\u00a0 (My mother read the Paks books, but she’s not alive to testify; she died in 1990.)\u00a0\u00a0 Most-distant-from-central-Texas reader?\u00a0\u00a0 Read it in _____ language first?<\/p>\n

Aside from that, what would YOU like to see in an introduction?\u00a0 What questions about the books still nag at you?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What about the person who’s never visited Paksworld…what do you think they’d like to read about the books, the process, the writer?<\/p>\n

As y’all know from being here, I can rattle on at length about all sorts of things that may or may not be what you really wanted to know, so feel free to hand me some ideas I can talk over with Toni (who, being editor\/publisher, will have considerable say in the matter)\u00a0 as I feel my way forward on the introduction thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As those of you with tattered old mass-market paperbacks with the woman on the black horse on the cover know, \u00a0 Sheepfarmer’s Daughter came out in 1988, as did Divided Allegiance, and Oath of Gold came out in 1989.\u00a0\u00a0 To celebrate 30 years in print, Baen Books is going to put out an Annversary Edition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,5],"tags":[58,31,107],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-news","category-the-writing-life","tag-reader-help-wanted","tag-the-book-business","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}