Recent content by Orm Irian

That's just ordinary slippage; it happens all the time in publishing, though to be fair, more often backwards than forwards. And odds are a slippage that small would have had little or nothing to do with changing the publication date and everything to do with the book production process. If the...

So happy for Alison and Saulius! Sixth, at their first Olympics, after everything they had to go through to get there...it must feel a lot like gold. :)

All I care about is that R/A had fun and did well. And, hopefully, that someone posts the video of their RD and it stays up long enough for me to see it, because I'm not signing up for yet another streaming service just to watch the Olys even if it is free.

The cost of hiring a songwriter to both create a song and produce the kind of high-quality demo you'd need in order to skate to the track can be anywhere from $5000 to $20,000 (though to be fair the latter is mostly for advertising jingle writers at the top of the field). Costwise, doing that...

Not if it constituted work produced for hire. Then the company that hired them holds copyright.

So long as you're skating to a Kylie medley!

I was in Year 6 then. I think it must have happened late in the day here, or even overnight - not because I don't remember watching it happen in real time in class, because we didn't really do that sort of thing in my primary school, but because I do remember that when I went to school the next...

I think it would be preferable to have some jumps in an artistic program, though fewer than are currently in the free program; you just can't let them be the dominant component of the score. So how about this: instead of skaters getting more points per rotation, all solo jumps should be worth...

Probably best to avoid it anyway, given the score includes a song called "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" which is sung by an adult man.

Mandatory reporting obligations, as such, usually only apply to minors and to adults in vulnerable situations, such as elders, adults with severe intellectual or communication disabilities and similar. IIRC, Solene Mazingue was an adult at the time; you could certainly make the legal case that...

It's a long thread to us, but to a publisher it means exactly nothing, I'm afraid.

Continued, vocal support of, even. There's also the point that when Gabi started skating in shows with Madi Hubbell some interviewers were straight up asking her if she'd asked Guillaume for permission to skate with somebody else - after their partnership had been formally dissolved - while I...

Unfortunately, people can deny anything given enough motivation. Think about how some fans tried to excuse away that video of Alex Shibutani yelling at Maia for minutes on end...

That's sadly standard for midlist-and-below books in every genre the world around, these days - while the publisher takes care of scheduling and packaging, supplying review copies to reviewers and etc., the majority of the on-the-ground promotional work falls to the author, and their agent if...

Exactly. They care about selling the book, and about promoting Gabriella as their client. Guillaume has no relationship with them and they have no obligation to take him or his schedule into account when doing their job. And I'll also point out that likewise, now that they no longer work...