Yeah I like that idea. They have been to Krysty's home town before in the novel "Crossway's". I think it would be good for Mildred to go back to the city she was from.

Taking Doc back to South Strafford -or what remains of it would make a fantastic tale, but only if done by an author who knew his back story well and was prepared to put the work in to make it work.

Place the Redoubt inside Elizabeth copper mine -which was in operation during Docs (pre trawl) days and blow his mind in the first few chapters.

Its only a small town so may well be mostly untouched even after all these years?

http://www.vermontusaimag...rmont-meeting-house/

It just cries out for a Baron who is a religious nut to run it.

 

"...by the three Kennedys, what mischief has befallen my beloved home?"

Jim

remember doc was in omaha, nebraska when he was trawled. didn't see an opinion for J. B. and Copper Creek, Colorado

Posted By white wolf on 4/14/2013 10:58:04 PM
remember doc was in omaha, nebraska when he was trawled. didn't see an opinion for J. B. and Copper Creek, Colorado

But he was born in South Strafford

What has Copper Creek got to do with J.B, he was born in Cripple Creek?

Jim

Where is Mildred from? Atlanta seems to ring a bell but I could be wrong. Or was that where she won Olympic Gold.

i sorry i meant cripple creek. remembered the error after i logged out. and Mildred was born in Lincoln, Nebraska December 17th 1964.

Posted By white wolf on 4/16/2013 11:30:54 PM
i sorry i meant cripple creek. remembered the error after i logged out. and Mildred was born in Lincoln, Nebraska December 17th 1964.

You are correct on all points. Your mention of Mildred has made.me pick up northstar rising again :o)

Jim

Splitting hairs i know, but wasnt it a silver medal for mildred??

It was a silver medal.

I believe you gentlemen are correct. Was it in Miami that she won it??

Think you were on the money with Atlanta. On the subject of mildred and forgive me if i've totally missed it....Minor op went wrong, she got frozen. When did she get fixed??

My mistake, twas Miami.

Posted By McPlop on 4/20/2013 6:00:45 AM
Think you were on the money with Atlanta. On the subject of mildred and forgive me if i've totally missed it....Minor op went wrong, she got frozen. When did she get fixed??

I believe it was said that she re-awakened fixed that something in the freezing process fixed her . I could be completely wrong though. If that isn't it then maybe it was never said how she got fixed .

Yes, Mildred's problem went into remission due to the cryogenic process. So we were told.

Posted By Wordsmith-reprise on 4/23/2013 8:23:20 AM
Yes, Mildred's problem went into remission due to the cryogenic process. So we were told.

It's a miracle of the age...

Jim

Baz, they should just let you edit the books! Then again the pay wouldn't be worth it.

Yes, Mike, the pay would be worth it. I no longer know what a work-for-hire writer is paid. But in the world of editing, the compensation is fine, thank you.

You're welcome, but I think I was addressing Baz.

 I don't remember asking anything about what a work-for-hire author makes either.

Since you brought it up, I'm sure your pay is commensurate with your skill judging by the fine editing seen on all Gold Eagle product.

 

You should have an "s" at the end of "product".
That will be $35 payable to the following Paypal account please...

Oh and the pay can't be much worse than the less than wonderful rate that the government see fit to pay me each month!

Jim

@Mike--all on the board is fair game. Your comment was for Jim. I was just inserting a fact.  As for your criticism, point taken--for some errors.

Absolutely! It's all fair game of course! I was just joking around with Baz anyway. If i wanted to make a direct comment about the editing on Gold Eagle product I would have told you directly. Which I will do now since you seem interested.

It SUCKS! OUT LOUD! FACT!

Bad spelling. Poor sentence structure. Names changing. Dead characters reappearing. Factual mistakes. The same book being released twice under different titles and covers. No continuity. Generic storylines used over and over. Passages missing. Pages transposed.

FACTS!

Does anyone who read these disagree?

Whoa! I don't edit all of the books.

A lot of the errors you mentioned will be a thing of the past. You have to know the editorial process. An editor marks up a paper copy of the manuscript. That's me, at least for Deathlands and the SuperBolans. I am responsible for the overall content, impose Gold  Eagle style, blah, blah, blah. Gun errors that aren't corrected are my fault, though the writer should really be held to account for that. Then a copy editor comes along and fixes the grammar, punctuation other style issues, checks geography and other items I ask her/him to check. All of that is marked up on the paper copy. Then someone inputs all of the marked-up copy onto the electronic file of the book. This is where a lot of the errors are generated, as sometimes copy is dropped, typos inserted where they weren't there in the first place. Sounds like an excuse, but that's the way it is.

 Then the camera-ready copy is generated and a proofreader reads the final copy. Starting with Ivory Wave, edting and copy editing was done--and will continue to be done--on-line. Lots of those niggly errors will disappear. I'm confident of that.

P.S. The other problems have to be addressed by the in-house editor, not me, a freelancer. Good points, though.

Again, I don't think I ever stated I thought you edited all the books.

I just finished a James Rollins novel, you know how many mistakes I found? Nada. Zip. Zero. It's too bad GE hasn't had the same standards, we'll see how that goes in the future.

Having read Gold Eagle books literally since day one, I can say the quality of their product has decreased dramatically in the past years, both from a technical and content perspective.  Sometimes I have to wonder why I even bother to keep my subscription.

BTW...I'm glad GE pays you well!  Really!  You're the first person I've ever heard say that!  Congrats!

I get paid well too!  Well enough that I can actually drop money every month on the latest shipment of shoddily executed material from GE and not care.

Posted By mikeclr on 4/30/2013 12:08:52 PM

I just finished a James Rollins novel, you know how many mistakes I found? Nada. Zip. Zero. It's too bad GE hasn't had the same standards, we'll see how that goes in the future.

Having read Gold Eagle books literally since day one, I can say the quality of their product has decreased dramatically in the past years, both from a technical and content perspective.  Sometimes I have to wonder why I even bother to keep my subscription.

The thing I always noticed, was books by one author was consistently low on errors, while another author consistently loaded with errors. This seemed to indicate that one author would put more care in the submitted manuscript, while another sent in something with little or no polish, and at the GE end not much was done between the original and the printed product. But whatever, hopefully the new way of doing things will make the final product of GE books a more professional book, like the James Rollins example and such.

And speaking of Rollins, he is a heck of a writer, one of my personal favorites, along with Steve Berry, and that guy that created Outlanders. 

Posted By )3az )3aziah on 4/30/2013 6:46:50 AM
 
  
Oh and the pay can't be much worse than the less than wonderful rate that the government see fit to pay me each month!

Jim

Yeah our wonderful Government that will probably be laying off loads of loyal workers to pay for there friends in "Banking" mistakes. 

They have been to Krystys. Remember when they went to the school. Krysty found out her mother had gone off, but she meet up with the blacksmith boy.

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