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<blockquote data-quote="SpiralBound" data-source="post: 2326503" data-attributes="member: 8396">If I may make a suggestion that some people in this thread may wish to &quot;boo&quot; me for... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Beware of a symptom called &quot;feature creep&quot; in program development that is equally applicable to publishing.&nbsp; It's basically where the practice of adding &quot;just one more thing&quot; cripples the original underlying structure of the product and also delays it into infinity... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />I'm glad that you're finding much more cool information to put into your book.&nbsp; However, don't feel that you MUST put EVERYTHING into the one book.&nbsp; For instance, what's wrong with your &quot;Midgard&quot; book being 125 or 150 pages and then later you release several 30-60 page supplements entitled &quot;History of Midgard&quot;, &quot;Heros and Villains of Midgard&quot; and &quot;Monsters of Midgard&quot;?I'm not saying that you should chop your book into bit-size pieces and sell it in many supplements - going too far in that direction will tick people off too.&nbsp; But I'm willing to bet that there's a happy medium-ground for both you and your apparently growing and eager fanbase. (lucky bastard!) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; Also, beware of delaying a product so long that no one cares about it any more... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />&nbsp; Even a good 150 page book is better than a 200-250 exhaustive tome that either never comes out, comes out far too late, or is so overwhelmingly huge that people are too intimidated by its size to use it.Remember, the way to eat an elephant is one forkful at a time! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing&nbsp; &nbsp; :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="SpiralBound, post: 2326503, member: 8396"] If I may make a suggestion that some people in this thread may wish to "boo" me for... ;) Beware of a symptom called "feature creep" in program development that is equally applicable to publishing. It's basically where the practice of adding "just one more thing" cripples the original underlying structure of the product and also delays it into infinity... :( I'm glad that you're finding much more cool information to put into your book. However, don't feel that you MUST put EVERYTHING into the one book. For instance, what's wrong with your "Midgard" book being 125 or 150 pages and then later you release several 30-60 page supplements entitled "History of Midgard", "Heros and Villains of Midgard" and "Monsters of Midgard"? I'm not saying that you should chop your book into bit-size pieces and sell it in many supplements - going too far in that direction will tick people off too. But I'm willing to bet that there's a happy medium-ground for both you and your apparently growing and eager fanbase. (lucky bastard!) :) Also, beware of delaying a product so long that no one cares about it any more... :( Even a good 150 page book is better than a 200-250 exhaustive tome that either never comes out, comes out far too late, or is so overwhelmingly huge that people are too intimidated by its size to use it. Remember, the way to eat an elephant is one forkful at a time! :lol: [/QUOTE]

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