QUOTE: John Wick Presents (published 2016-04-05, Tuesday)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnwickpresents/7th-sea-second-edition/posts/1540438
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Thanks!
Does anybody know how long the 7th sea novels are going to be?
If they are quite long I'd rather have them in paper, if not I could just go with the PDF.
Thanks, Salamanca.
Should we assume then the novels would be around 200 pages? Is that reasonable?
In the mock up they kind of look about that (?).
God I hope they are longer than that! 340 pages is pretty much the minumum size for a commercially distributed novel. A 200-page novel might be cool in a retro-pulp way, but if the plan is to get these into book stores (and why not?!), they are going to need to be meatier than that. But we'll see.
Yeah, I noticed the novels didn't even have a release schedule for the first year.
I suspect Daughters of Fate is somewhat written as John started that one back in...1999? But that could mean anything.
From John Wick:
"200 pages, trade paperback. We'll have them all out before October of next year. Roughly one every 6 months. :D"
Wow! Those are...short! By comparison, the last series of trade paperbacks I read (Mark Chadbourne's Swords of Albion) average a bit over 300 pages.
Geez! This is gonna be a long wait now that my pre-order is in. I realize they gotta know how many decks of cards to print and everything, but 6 months. Damn.
Is it possible to select add-ons above your pledge amount?
TAJ-07: Technopriest And Justicar Of 7thSea2e
Ok. Thanks! :)
Actually you can change your pledge tier. I did. I backed at pirate and am now at all the books pirate. There is a tiny link that you can click that lets you upgrade your pledge. Uses the word Upgrade.