TPOTS Errata

[ellenkushner]

On pages 369-370 of the original printings of the Bantam/Spectra tradepaperback and the Small Beer Press hardcover of The Privilege of the Sword (as well as page 606 of the Science Fiction Book Club omnibus edition Swords of Riverside), some lines of revised dialogue were inadvertently left out of one scene. (Yes, there is a story behind this - of me frantically rewriting in galleys thanks to some last-minute advice from wild_irises - which I'll tell you some other time when I'm not catching a plane to Spain in 5 hours...)

The scene appears correctly in the new mass market paperback (page 453) and in all subsequent editions.

The correct version (taken from the new paperback edition) is available here, tactfully blurred so that no one is caught unawares by the
SPOILER ALERT:
This scene occurs about 5 pages from the end of the book. Those who have not yet read The Privilege of the Sword are advised not to read this scene yet, as it will either give away something cool that I saved for the end and spoil the suprise, or , more likely, just utterly confuse them.

Kudos to my new webmistress, who came up with an elegant solution to a disgruntling problem!

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Ah. Good. I like that. That helps a lot with the end-happening-so-fast problem.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

How wonderful to have the approbation of one's peers! It's just a few words, but it does make a difference, doesn't it? I think it was Holly Black (to whom I was desperately sending last-minute revisions) who said I needed more there, so I added them, but somehow Bantam sent the wrong pages to the final printing.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

*dink!*

The sound of the last porcelian piece fitting into the cloisonne.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Lovely!

[amy34.livejournal.com]

I don't actually remember that scene having a problem... maybe I filled in the blanks when I read it. I just remember I loved that scene :). Anyway, it's nice to see the corrected version.

[stephanieburgis.livejournal.com]

Lovely! I really like that expansion, and I love the way it's arranged on the webpage. Very elegant and useful!

Also, just a nosy note on something you've probably already noticed yourself - on the "writing" page of your website, in the top "novels" section, there's no mention of TPOTS, which means that to casual visitors of your website (or new readers coming from the radio show, maybe?) there's no mention of the fact that yes, you have written another novel since Thomas..., Swordspoint and The Fall of the Kings - and since most visitors won't go any deeper than that into the website (and after that, they'd have to scroll all the way down the Riverside page to finally find the picture and mention of TPOTS!), that means that most of your website visitors won't find out the existence of TPOTS, which would be a real pity.

And now I'll be quiet and stop giving un-asked-for opinions! (Sorry for being nosy & intrusive - I spent too long as a website editor and now can't stop myself from thinking about that stuff...)

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

No, you're right, and it's the next thing we're going to fix! Truly.

[casacorona.livejournal.com]

Wait. Aren't you in Espania without your computer?

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Airport car is coming in 2 hours.

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like that one! :3 Must now acquire paperback. Katherine sounds like she's thinking of the potential scenario (spoiler!censorship, rawr! >D) romantically or something. X3! Ohhh, I love them all so... *squibbles*

Have a lovely time being celebrities in Spain! ^0^ *waves handkerchief*

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

* waves back *

Have a great time at Alpha, you Mad Genius, you!

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

Ellen? :3 I meant to reply to you underneath this, but accidentally babbled to myself, instead. Mrr. *points down*

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

Have acquired mass-market paperback and officially fangirled over The Missing Lines. :3

But I had help fangirling. FROM ALPHANS. >D And OHMYGOD it was amazing and world-building is easier now, and the cafeteria pizza had herbs in the cheese, and my suitcase broke from the SHEER WEIGHT OF NEW BOOKS and Tamora Pierce, and people tore my original character into three shreds of his former self and all of them rock equally, and Aliens is really really scary as opposed to Buffy the musical which *rocks* ("BUNNIES!!"), and I only slept through two lectures but DBK forgave me his, and I now own the *entire* Chicks In Chain Mail series, Through A Brazen Mirror and a good few other works, and the Tower of Ingested Caffeine (coke can pyramid) was ginormous by the end and Confluence had Pretty Shinies and I actually tackled Humorous Fantasy and did *not* come out all that bad, and sent my story in to Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine which I hear is prompt, so they should reject me in no less than two weeks (my first rejection, SQUEEEEAL! *claps*) and Wen Spencer brought Tribbles and they were EVERYWHERE, and the tree in the graveyard is alive and hungry, and Diane and all her sons look like they were smacked with the Beauty Stick an *unfair* number of times and oh my God, there is a tyrannosaurus rex in the Pittsburgh airport, which is also a SHOPPING MALL.

Though they didn't teach us a darn thing about avoiding run-on sentences. >3

I WILL SLEEP FOR WEEKS. :D *massive hug* And just *had* to bug you at Clarion to announce all of this.

*squibbles happily*

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

*massive hugs back* - I've been DYING to know how it went - thank you SO much for letting me know! Now you must Tell All: maybe a nice long post on your blog, once you've slept it all off?

My Clarion students think it's really cool that there's a "Clarion for Teens."

[lolafeist.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, I just finished after two days of trying to pace myself. I have to tell you--and I feel silly squiggling about it on your LJ--that it's been too long since I've rolled around on a couch dying all over a book.

My braincrush on Alec absolutely kills me. Katherine was the most adorably unreliable narrator I've ever encountered. I'm feeling all bereaved already, now that I'm done. Woe. And thank you, so very much, for sharing your world.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding?! Such praise is delicious and most welcome! (And thanks for understanding about "unreliable narrator")

It's all right; you can just go back to the beginning and start over. It all looks different the second time around, trust me.

[lolafeist.livejournal.com]

My husband is laughing at me while I flail all over the couch.

We drove across town today so I could go to Borders and pick up the newer edition of Swordspoint. I adored "The Death of the Duke." I originally read the older paperback and hadn't read it before. I swooned out on the porch reading ice cream and generally spazzing out. (I definitely felt like Artemesia or Katherine nearly clutching the book to my chest.)

I will definitely be re-reading Swordspoint now. It's been a few years, and I know it will be fun knowing more as I go along.

(I called my best friend to tell her to run out and pick up PoTS immediately after reading the Highcombe section. She's going to love it.)

Marcus snuck in there and really made the book for me, by the way. I haven't read Fall of the Kings since it came out so I'll be grabbing that as well and poking around for familiar faces.

I'm going to stop rambling now. ;)