Ser Scot A Ellison Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I noticed the last thread was locked so I started a new one. His last update on LJ was in October. I wanted to see if anyone knew how he was doing. He's been through an awful lot this year. The Amazon update now has RoT due out in May 2013. The last I heard RoT's was in the polishing stages. Is there any word on where the book is and more importantly how Scott is doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dillinisgood Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I've been wondering about all of this as well because I see that the U.S. amazon still has TROT as Feb of 2011 and i'm sure thats not right. Anybody? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Wondering as well... and waiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantabile Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I noticed the last thread was locked so I started a new one. His last update on LJ was in October. I wanted to see if anyone knew how he was doing. He's been through an awful lot this year. The Amazon update now has RoT due out in May 2013. The last I heard RoT's was in the polishing stages. Is there any word on where the book is and more importantly how Scott is doing?What happened with Scott? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcf Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 What happened with Scott?He's in an on-going battle with severe depression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted December 22, 2010 Author Share Posted December 22, 2010 Cantabile,Additionally, he and his wife split in April. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Cantabile,Additionally, he and his wife split in April.Don't know if I knew that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted December 22, 2010 Author Share Posted December 22, 2010 Rhom,I'm curious to find out how you can not know whether you knew something? Presumably you knew it or you didn't.:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriele Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Maybe Rhom read too much Stanek and killed some brain cells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Rhom,I'm curious to find out how you can not know whether you knew something? Presumably you knew it or you didn't.:PGreat question! I'll have to think on it and see if I know the answer or not! :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jurble Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Does Mr. Lynch have a day job? I can't imagine the sales of the first two books/plus whatever he got in advance for the third were so incredibly massive to last him this long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaceBannon42 Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Does Mr. Lynch have a day job? I can't imagine the sales of the first two books/plus whatever he got in advance for the third were so incredibly massive to last him this long.He's a fire fighter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Does Mr. Lynch have a day job? I can't imagine the sales of the first two books/plus whatever he got in advance for the third were so incredibly massive to last him this long.He's a fire fighter.So if he were prepared to live life on the cheap... like maybe avoiding going outside and buying boats/skimobiles and spending his time instead doing something like playing WoW... I would think he could live for quite a while on that amount. Plus, was his advance only for this third one or do authors get advances for the entire series? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantabile Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 His books have sold very well, as far as I know. If teachers can live off of 30,000$ a year I don't see why a bestselling author couldn't make it for a few years off of three novels.I had no idea about his depression. Very sad to hear about that. Is the depression because of the split with his wife, or is it more chronic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spring Bass Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I had no idea about his depression. Very sad to hear about that. Is the depression because of the split with his wife, or is it more chronic? I looked at his blog, and it looks like he has a blog entry about his depression dating from March (before he and his wife split, if they divorced in April). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Someone could go poke Pat. He has the hookup, yo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantabile Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I looked at his blog, and it looks like he has a blog entry about his depression dating from March (before he and his wife split, if they divorced in April).Hopefully it's just related to his marriage problems then and isn't anything long-term. Divorces are truly awful. Does he have children? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Does Mr. Lynch have a day job? I can't imagine the sales of the first two books/plus whatever he got in advance for the third were so incredibly massive to last him this long.He sold the film rights for the first novel before it even came out. I can't remember if it was for the same amount as Morgan (about $1 million, IIRC) but certainly it was a hell of a lot, far more than he'd have gotten for his books alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Analu Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 I had no idea he was going thru so many problems. I just thought he had uber-writers block. Poor guy. I was really looking forward to RoT, but his health and family come first, of course. I hope he works things out as best as he can, and I'll be ready and waiting to buy any book he comes out with in the near or far future. He's on the shortlist of authors that I'll immediately buy any hardcover release of whatever they put out: him, GRRM, Bakker, Sanderson, Sigler, Abraham. I think that's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tehol Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 why u peeps know so much about a writer's personal life? is he sharing this stuff online? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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