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From: Chris Thompson <the_thompsons@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: BC: Velociraptor Jogging - Eric Flint that died
Date: Sun, 4 May 2025 21:21:34 -0400
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Ahasuerus wrote:
> On 5/3/2025 9:58 PM, Chris Thompson wrote:
>> a425couple wrote:
> [snip-snip]
>>> Turns out, it was the Boundry 'co-author' Eric Flint that died.
>>>
>>> from wiki
>>> "Since both the Grantville Gazette and the Ring of Fire Press had 
>>> ceased operations shortly after Eric Flint's death in 2022,[3][4][5] 
>>> the series was originally expected to be concluded after manuscripts 
>>> that had already been submitted to Baen prior to Flint's death were 
>>> published in the upcoming year or so.[6] In June 2023, it was 
>>> announced that a new company, Flint's Shards Inc., had signed a 
>>> contract with Lucille Robbins, Eric Flint's widow and heir, to 
>>> produce a new electronic magazine called Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond 
>>> that was scheduled to be released bimonthly on the first day of 
>>> odd-numbered months ,with Bjorn Hasseler as editor-in-chief, starting 
>>> inSeptember 2023.[7]"
>>
>> If you enjoyed the Flint/Spoor collaboration, their book _Fenrir_ will 
>> be coming out in June. Ryk is posting teasers, links to which can be 
>> found on his Facebook feed. _Fenrir_ may well be Eric Flint's last 
>> book to see print. Dammit. The eARC is available at Baen.com.
>>
>> (Ah, _Fenrir_ is not a continuation of the _Boundary_ series, nor any 
>> other. It might be the first book of one, though. Ryk seems to have 
>> about 30 irons in the fire atm.)
> 
> Hopefully the financial complications that followed Eric Flint's death 
> have been resolved. Back in October 2022 David Drake wrote 
> (https://david-drake.com/2022/newsletter-128/):
> 
>  > I got to thinking about success. I always figured that a writer could 
> expect three material things from his work: money, readership and 
> awards, I wanted enough money for a comfortable life and enough readers 
> to sustain that income. I never cared about awards.
> 
>  > My friend Eric Flint wanted a fourth thing: fame. How different that 
> is from the other three was driven home when his widow had to declare 
> bankruptcy. Eric was a good writer and apparently (to me) successful. It 
> turns out that it’s expensive to keep up the appearance of being 
> successful–being famous, in other words. Eric spent more money on this 
> than he earned, so he died famous but owing a lot of money.
> 

That's really sad. I knew there were financial difficulties but I didn't 
realize they were bankruptcy-level bad. I wonder if bringing new writers 
along through the Ring of Fire stories had much to do with it. It 
certainly seemed like Eric Flint should have had a comfortable living. 
Then again, I don't really know how much money an author actually nets 
from their works.


Chris