willdial opened this issue on Aug 08, 2002 ยท 68 posts
duanemoody posted Thu, 08 August 2002 at 6:55 PM
I sent a lengthy critique of the book to his editor with the aside that unless Charles River Media was a vanity imprint of a larger publisher with money to burn, they were gambling a substantial chunk of their future on another $50 fiasco like this one. To their credit, his editor replied and forwarded my comments to Mortier. When I learned another edition was on its way, I re-sent the message to the editor and this time not only did she reply but Mortier did as well. I'll do him the favor (this time) of not posting his email here. The technical manual market must be starving for people who can write in English if the technical standards are this low. And FWIW, while it's true that he pimped one or two Zygote CDs mercilessly in the book, Richard Schrand should be taken to the woodshed for making his Flash book's one section on integrating Poser require Vicky, Mike and both their clothing paks ($150 if you buy the CDs), just because he wanted characters that could morph into old people.