From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Another Tom Clancy novel coming soon
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 18:14:46 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: <ronkean at juno.com>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 4:17 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Another Tom Clancy novel coming soon

>
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 00:10:06 -0400 (EDT) "Keith F. Lynch"
> <kfl at KeithLynch.net> writes:
>
> > I was just remarking on how short a time it was from submission to
> > being in bookstores.
> >
>
> The reported 'submission' date might actually have been the date on which
> corrections were finalized.  The manuscript might already have been
> converted to a data file and formatted for printing and proofread, and
> gone thru one or more rounds of galley proofing, so the last minute
> changes might be doable in less than a day, and printing out final galley
> proofs might take only a couple of hours with a computer and a fast
> printer.  The proofs could be checked by a team.  Perhaps Clancy's books
> are so important that printing and binding schedules are pre-empted to
> rush the books to market.

"Manuscript"?  Are you saying Clancy *doesn't* supply a data file directly
from his computer?

--Ted White