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Cover art and release date

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765323818

Artwork. Based on the cover, I am assuming this story takes place in the Westhorns? Maybe Westwind? I am not sure how much information has been released about this novel, but I am looking forward to it.

Based on some of Mr. Modesitt's hints, I would say you're probably right.

Arms-Commander begins ten years after The Chaos Balance, and the central character is Saryn.


L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

lmodesitt wrote:Arms-Commander begins ten years after The Chaos Balance, and the central character is Saryn.


L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

FINALLY!!! I've been waiting for eleven books for this story. ^.^ About a year ago, you made a comment in a discussion about why all your main Recluce Saga characters so far have been males. I predicted right then that your next book would be about Saryn (I was right! Go me!). She has a country named after her afterall, so I figured she played some prominent part in the timeline and that it was probably just a matter of time before you wrote it.

*glee* I can't wait! Love the art for the cover, as an aside.

Also, on a more personal note; I feel sort of funny about using a name that you have for a character as my username. The thing is, I actually thought of this name BEFORE I read it in your book several years ago, and had grown attached. I used it as my handle all over the internet and I identify with it pretty strongly. But, your character is published, so you have a more "official" claim to the name, hehe. My question is, does it bother you to see other people using names that belong to your characters? Out of respect I'd be happy to make a new account if it does.

It doesn't bother me in the slightest if people use the names of my characters. I've even had readers name children after characters. The only thing I would take umbrage at is people trying to make money off the use of actual characters.

Because readers "discover" Recluce at different times, they often subconsciously date things to the time of discovery, rather than to their creation. "Istril" and the others from Fall of Angels were actually created in late 1994, except for Nylan, who was there from The Magic of Recluce, although Fall of Angels wasn't published until 1996.


L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

istril wrote:*glee* I can't wait! Love the art for the cover, as an aside.

Thanks for the smile -- your exuberance is contagious!

Fantastic!

Always happy to see a new book from the Saga of Recluce.

It's good I'm re-reading the series now I guess, keep everything fresh in my mind. Up to Fall of Angels right now.

So right about at the right time period

I am thrilled to hear that this book is coming out. I've been hoping for a while that we'd get to see Saryn's story (ever since the Saryn/Sarronnyn connection became obvious to me - I believe I asked a question about it on here a while back) and to hear that it is official is great news.

There aren't many series I buy hardbacks for, but this series is now one of them.

Also, is this going to be another duology within the series or will it be a standalone?

At this point, I don't have any plans for a second book about Saryn... but I once did change my mind when I didn't have a second book in mind.


L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

Found an excerpt. Not sure if this sort of thing has been mentioned yet...

I just spent 15 minutes looking for the name of the cover artist for Arms Commander, to no avail. Who is this excellent artist?

I know that Tor chooses your cover art, but they should be congratulated on both Arms Commander and the Imager series. It's head and shoulders above the art done for others such as Soarer's Choice.

Hey! I liked the cover for "Soarer's Choice" ..



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Sigh. Personal choice as to what is "good". As said earlier, I have an opinion just as everyone has body odor: very personal and likely to stink.

I still really like Giancola.

(I liked that one too .. I was just pokin' ya.)

They are different styles.

It would be more difficult for me to actually pick one I didn't like. My problem is, I see the cover and think about what's inside -- and I'm not sure I really see the cover anymore.

Great, I take it this book will help shed some light on how the legend spread over almost all of candor.

Possibly. In the western half of Candar, at least - Relyn was probably largely responsible for however much it spead in the east.

Naturally, that just makes me more anxious to get the book and read the whole thing :p

Reminder: Just less than a month until the Hardcover and Kindle versions of Arms-Commander arrive.

Also: The paperback version of Imager (the 1st in the Imager Portfolio series) arrives about a month after that. (Somehow I thought this was already out.)

CodeBlower wrote:Reminder: Just less than a month until the Hardcover and Kindle versions of Arms-Commander arrive.
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Have had one on pre-order for a while now. Keep expecting a knock on the door with my delivery, even though I know it's at least a month away ... sigh.

I'll order mine shortly after Christmas.

Which reminds me, if Mr. Modesitt is reading this - do authors get paid the same for books sold for discount prices (such as from Amazon.com, where hardback prices are regularly 30% off or more) as for ones sold at full price? This assumes, I suppose, that the contract is based on royalties as opposed to a flat rate, which may or may not be the case.

There's a thread around here, somewhere, asking this from a slightly different direction.

From what I understood, it's basically a flat-rate -- based on the publisher's price.

At least .. that's the arrangement TOR (or its parent company) gives him ..

I did three searches -- but I can't seem to get enough words out of my mental-archives to convince IBDoF to give me back the post(s) that I think I'm remembering.

As I understand it, the standard Tor contract [and mine] pays the same royalty rate on a hardcover or paperback whether it's sold at discount or not -- with three exceptions. The first is what are called "high discount" purchases. I frankly have no idea what this means, but there never have been many copies of my books that fall in that category. The second is U.S. editions sold to foreign distributors, in which case I only get about half what I do for a U.S. sale, but that's often more than I get from foreign sales. The third case is that of remainders -- and there I get nothing...BUT...when B&N has only a few hardcovers left and they're short of shelf space, or a hardcover is battered, they often do "store remainders." which means that they mark it down, and I still get royalties.


L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

That's good to know. I have to be as economical as possible, but I don't want to be hurting the authors who all too often don't get paid what they're worth.