World War 1990: ANZACs has been driving us batty.
We see three main issues.
First the MS was just a mess of George Lucas proportions; where talking Revenge of the Sith here. Nothing seemed to go together, the pacing seemed to make no sense. We are satisfied that this issue is fixed.
Second we're just not sure the stakes are high enough in ANZACs. Simply put, the Aussies are not driving on Hanoi, or even Haiphong. They basically mount a big putative expedition.
Third, as noted before we can't quite make up our mind about just how far down the chain of command the historical figures should go. Someone commanded the New Zealander's Scorpion tank squadron in 1990, but we've made up a character in ANZACs.
There's also the matter of Aussie/Kiwi terms but this is not a huge problem. Note to self: the Aussies did not call the Vietnamese 'Charlie'.
There's another issue here. We're pretty big in Australia. Or we should say, Australia is per capita a market for us up there with the US and UK. We have a lot of readers in Australia and we'd like to turn in a good book about them, for them.
So we press on, and if that means ANZACs gets delayed, then it gets delayed.
Figure Autumn.
You could ask for Aussie volunteers to make sure things sound right. If you haven't painted yourself into a corner(mentioned in another book) with Vietnam having to be in the fight or if mentioned could be an Aussie force with Thailand defence as their motivation.
ReplyDeleteCant be as bad as Martin's game of thrones. Ive been waiting since 2011 for his next one.
ReplyDeleteThanks, guys. I've been waiting 30 years for Jerry Pournelle to wrap up Jannisaries.
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