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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 07:58:39 JST Charlie Stross

   Writers’ Coffee Club for 24th January 2025

   24. How long is the longest story you’ve ever written? Can you link to it?

   The Laundry Files (last book heading for production) will, when finished, run to > 1.7 million words. Took 25 years to publish .…

   https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=stross+laundry+files&qid=

   The Merchant Princes series (now complete) runs to just under 1M words:

   https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/buy-my-books/buy-my-books-uk.html#mp_series

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     JWarner (jeanniewarner@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 08:02:38 JST JWarner

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     @cstross ... And we are still concerned about some of your prophecies coming true on our watch. We talked about this!!

     :-)

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 18:23:16 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Mighty Orbot

     @mighty_orbot None whatsoever. They're all in print and selling well and the publishers of the earlier books require DRM on everything, which Does Not Work with humble bundle AIUI. (I'll check again in a couple of years.)

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     Mighty Orbot (mighty_orbot@retro.pizza)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 18:23:17 JST Mighty Orbot

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     @cstross Any chance of a Humble Bundle containing the old Laundry Files stories?

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 19:01:48 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Dr David Mills

     @Dtl Any project lasting > 20 years involves numerous patches of burn-out during which writing it feels like eating yesterday's stone cold vomit with a runcible spoon. *Overall* though I wrote the Laundry Files more for love and the Merchant Princes more for money.

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     Dr David Mills (dtl@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 19:01:49 JST Dr David Mills

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     @cstross Which series did you enjoy writing more?