Re: BC: Velociraptor Jogging - Eric Flint that died

Ahasuerus wrote:

On 5/3/2025 9:58 PM, Chris Thompson wrote:

a425couple wrote:

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Turns out, it was the Boundry 'co-author' Eric Flint that died.
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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]"

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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.
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(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