Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!jagardner
From: jagardner@watmath.waterloo.edu (Jim Gardner)
Newsgroups: ont.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Publishing Times
Message-ID: <25523@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 89 20:59:47 GMT
Reply-To: jagardner@watmath.waterloo.edu (Jim Gardner)
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Paul Frattaroli writes:
>I was just wondering, with all this talk about publishing times for 
>`would-be-writer's', how would someone like Piers Anthony fare.

I can't tell you about Piers Anthony, but I can give you an idea
for Orson Scott Card.  At last year's Ad Astra (second week in June,
if memory serves me correctly), Card announced that he had delivered
the manuscript for 'Prentice Alvin to his editor the day before he
left for the Con.  'Prentice Alvin hit the bookstores in early March,
I believe (hard cover, of course).  That's something like nine months
from delivery of manuscript to the stores.

		Jim Gardner, University of Waterloo