Hi Simon -
Why I'm not sure. He originally wrote a very effusive letter to me saying he'd be glad to publish it and send it along. I only had the pdf copy and sent it; he wrote back and said it was unusable and he couldn't save it as anything else. I wrote back and said I was trying to get a decent conver- sion (I did eventually). He wrote back and said he thought the manuscript was ready for publication and since it wasn't he had doubts about publish- ing it. He then wrote a second time and withdrew his offer completely. At that point I was angry and wrote him a letter saying he shouldn't havemade the offer in the first place, etc. etc. And that was that. The only thing I can think of is that maybe he made or withdrew the offer on drugs or felt he was over his head and panicked - I don't know. I haven't heard from him since and don't want to - I spent three days on the conversion. Anything else you might write him - he might be more open with you than with me - Gatza, Geoffrey -- Geoffrey Gatza" <[email protected]> - but it's dead in the water. At one point Minnesota indicated they were probably going to do the book; they withdrew when it became clear Sandy wouldn't be able to finish the framework any time soon. Since I'd waited about a year on the framework, I asked him about proceeding with the manuscript as is/was, and he agreed, so we wrote Minnesota accordingly. The work stands as it is; I personally doubt Sandy would have the time to go back into it, but it reads fine, if a bit non-academic, In any case, at this point it seems I can't even get a publish-on-demand press to do it! My writing, as I said somewhere else, is hopeless in terms of any sort of permanency (for books are slightly more permanent - not much - than files on my webpage) - they're always on the verge of disappearance and I have to live with that. I hate cross-posting stuff but it seems the only way I can get any readership at all. - Alan, and thanks for asking _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
