ADD Asshole in Toronto! (A DN “Blog” Preview?)
Posted By SandChigger on April 3, 2008
Kevin has blahgged on MySpace, so start the countdown until it ends up on the DN “Blog”!
Becca and our boy were off in Toronto this past weekend for a scifi convention. Woo-whee!
Pretty dry, as usual, but it appears the PoD draft is back from the test readers [read: yes-men/women]:
We had plans to have lunch at the rotating restaurant in the CN tower, but both Chris and I had book deadlines, so we begged off and just did editing. I was nearly finished with my last main edit of PAUL OF DUNE and I was anxious to complete the work over the weekend.
Gawd, isn’t he a positively DRIVEN little fook? Passes on lunch with a view…to work.
That boy just ain’t right.
We met one of our dedicated Canadian fans for dinner at a Mongolian grill,…
Oh, boy. You know who that was. TAZ. Had to be. Who else? Ole Zeus probably creamed himself (again) over the chance to hobnob with his GOD. (I wonder if they introduced him around as their nephew?)
…I did a heavily attended reading of PAUL OF DUNE — the first time I had ever read a chapter of the new book for an audience, and it was very well received.
Of course it was, dear. It always is when you tell it.
Saturday morning I got up early to spend a few hours editing PAUL, and I managed to finish the last work, and e-mailed the manuscript off to our editor for his final read, fifteen minutes before our first scheduled time on stage.
Riveting. (Remember, their editor is the guy who obviously just rubberstamps whatever they send him.)
Interesting point here, maybe: Kevin doesn’t mention getting Brian’s edits, does he? But he must be adding his to them, right? Especially if he’s sending the manuscript to the editor for his final read.
Or could it be, as some of us half suspect, that Kevin really is doing all the writing?
Sunday, I gave a full hour talk on the DUNE novels, signed more books, and then we were off to the airport to go home.
On the flight home, I was already starting work on the first big TERRA INCOGNITA novel. No time off!
Gee, I wonder what it’s like listening to Kevin waffle on for a whole hour about Dune. Must be interesting, seeing how he’s one of the foremost scholars of Dune on the planet. AND one of the world’s two biggest Dune fans!
And I just love that self-serving little “No time off!” at the end. Stop the plane while I cry you a river. Melodramatic hack.
But wait…there’s MORE!
PS Publishers Weekly has just published their year-end summary for 2007, and SANDWORMS OF DUNE was the best-selling science fiction hardcover of the year.
WHICH MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. When you consider the hype used to promote it. If they hadn’t LIED and CLAIMED it was based on Frank Herbert’s “Dune 7″ outline, very few people would have bought it after the piece of shit that was Hunters.
That’s right: they lied. If not, let them prove it by releasing the outline.
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What outline?
Damn…you JUMPED on this one, huh?
You really seem to be taking to this Internet shtuff! Aren’t you sorry about everything you’ve been missing all these years?
THE outline…you remember, the one from the boxes at the bank?
Hi Sandgiccer! I’m Brian! Welcome to this kewl place! I think you will like it ereh! Let’us talk!
Jumped? What does that mean? I’am sittttting down rite now. I wnce tried to make an outline of something too, but I just drawed a hopskotch bord instead. Outlines are tough when you can’not see through a piece of paper. Haha! LOL! (Hint: That’is leet I rote!)
I like you! Have you ever been to Mukitelo?
Let me start by saying that i thought the outline should have been published with the novel for any kind of legitimacy of their claims. I made the mistake of buying the Hunters book in hopes of gleaming a peek of the outline itself. I never have nor never will buy the final fan fiction book. At this point EVEN IF the outline is real and authentic and they release it; I would NOT believe them or trust their word it is authentic. It is sad that the said situation has come to this but here we are.
BTW love the blog Sandchigger, i read it every day. I just normally don’t post because I believe that if i dont have something intelligent to say them don’t say anything at all.
Hey, Exael, long time no see!
Great point. And one of the excuses they used to give for not releasing any of the real, sensitive info, if I recall: They said, even if we release the outline, people who hate the books would claim it wasn’t real etc etc etc.
And basically, after all this time, they’re right.
If they released an edited version of the outline on the website, even without any sort of proof of verification by a reputable third-party, or with just photographs of the original printouts, I’m sure a lot of people would eat it up and believe them. (Like the one who think those floppy disk pix are proof of anything.) But I’d have my doubts.
Frankly, at this point, if they put on their website that the sky is blue, I’d still have to think long and hard about it.
(Don’t worry about not having “something intelligent” to say. [Which I rather doubt is true.] It never stops any of us!
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Update: This still has not appeared on the DN “Blog”.
Also, a clarification: I intended “ADD Asshole” to refer to TAZ. He’s very quiet these days, even on MySpace, but I’m sure he’s still a dipshit.
Probably busying himself making animated GIFs for the official Dune page over there.
I rote that. This is mine surmise.
Yeah, it’s how we get to 500!
Very telling if you ask me; and great job dissecting it chig. Where the fuck is Brian in all of this, huh? KJA makes all the final changes and sends it off without so much as a comment on Brian’s part? It is exactly as we all suspected; Brian is doing nothing more than lending the family name and legal rights to these steaming piles of shit. KJA is the one to blame for all of the horrible writing and defiling of canon in the Duniverse.
So he’s still hanging out with that arrogant a-hole TAZ. Boy I bet KJA just loves having an evening of dinner, wine, and extreme ass kissing. God I would love to run into the two of them in a restaurant
I tried to get some of my ideas from Time Web into the latest Dune book, but Kevin would’not let me do it. I’will bet you would like it more with my ideas, no? Like the Demolio. And Noah’Dib.
Maybe you should use your Dune leverage to get him to put some of your ideas into his Saggy Seven Sons series!
I’m sure there’s room for some of your bodacious Mutatays in the last book…what was it called again, The Asses of Whores?
Stop the timer! AD ASTRA IN TORONTO is now posted on the dunenovels website! ‘Course the link is broken, but what’s the difference eh?
Really? Where did you see it?
I just checked the “blog” index page and it’s not linked to from there.
(The last link is to the March 18 post about the movie.)
Edit: Sparafucile, sorry, I finally looked at their homepage and found the link you meant.
Double D’uh! (Me and them!)
LOL. That is funny. Oh no! Now I have a boner! They gave me shocks and salt peter at the special hospital so I would stop beating my meat in public. OUCH! Flashback! OUCH!
Oh “Brian”…what would your father say if he could see you now?
(Seriously.)
He used to tell me to “stop masturbating” a lot when I was a kid. I think he would say the same thing now.
Oh…I see….
Huh. I always figured the masturbatory aspects of the new books were Kevin’s doing.
Interesting.
Ew. Many things make me want to touch my monkey, but not Kevin’s books. Hes a fucking sadist! LOL!!
Oops! I said a naughty.
Brian, when am you come back for more comment? Me enjoy your take on teh internets!
How, Kimosabe! We smok’em peace pipe? LOL! I’am funny!
Just kidding. I’am sorry I was gone. I was cleaning my room. Plus, my wife grounded me again for touching my monkey again in the living room when company was over. She always waks me with a rolled up newspaper and sprays me in the eyes with the plant sprayer when I do that. But I’am back now! LOL! I got out early for time served! LOL!
Any chance of you doing a blog entry on DN? If not maybe Chig would let you have at it over here. Your command of the written word makes me sorry that Kevin got in your way.
If I keep laughing like this my wife will know I’m not looking at porn, got to go.
By the way, I notice that your link is from these parts. Next time you’re up here for a check up I’ll take you downtown.
Sure, Ole Brian is more than welcome to do a guest post here!
Brian, just email your post to me and I’ll put it up for you, OK?
He may have to write it out and have someone send it to you.
Sure! Sandgiccer always wanted to know about the colbr..alcoal..cloo…that thing that happens when you and some other guy write something. I know a lot about that now! Kevin told me everything to say! Can I have your address so I can send you my post? (PS> I want your “snail mail” address. LOL! I like that word!
Update:
Uncle Mike still hasn’t fixed the link from the Dune Novels homepage to the (missing) blog page for this post.
And…I just notice that Kevin also hosts a “blog” on his Wordfire site…with the same content.
That means the hack is posting the same content in three locations.
Why not just fucking link to one?