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Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 7:23 pm I wonder if it will come out in Australia. I hope so!

Ken Williams wrote: Greetings Sierra Alums! After 25 years of sulking about Sierra’s destruction I’m finally working on a book about the rise and fall of Sierra. The book is mostly written, although my plan is to send 50 printed draft copies to various ex employees of Sierra and solicit feedback, from which I’ll add content (and, delete content).

Before you get excited (or frightened) about what I may have said, I should say that the book is written at a high-level overview level. Very few names of individuals appear in the book. It’s more of an autobiography. It discusses the strategies that made Sierra and the behind-the-scenes crap that brought sierra down.

As a side note, I just read a great book about Sierra, by Shawn Mills. I think it was called “The Sierra Adventure” and I have no idea how to get copies or when it will be released to the public (Shawn leaked me a copy). But, it is kind of the opposite of my book and in many ways probably more interesting to many Sierra ex-employees. It has a lot of trench-level behind the scenes blow by blow on various games we produced. There was lots of inside info that I didn’t know. If you find a copy, it is recommended reading.

Anyway .. back to my book.

If you are an ex Sierra employee, and want to pre-screen my book, email me your physical address (to ken@kensblog.com) Say a sentence or two about what you did at Sierra. I’ll pick 50 people to send copies to for comment. I’m mostly looking for people who were in a position to have a fairly broad perspective on events at the company. My memories of things are not great and I’m hoping that people can save me from embarrassing myself by screwing up dates or giving bad information. Apologies to people who don’t make the 50 copy cut, and I need to do another edit pass on the book before printing, so ...don’t expect anything until September.

Writing the book has had me reliving the Sierra adventure, and thinking about all the awesome things we did. It’s still tough for me to think about or talk about those days. I will never understand how such a great company could have been so brutally destroyed. It is a tragedy of epic proportions.

Stay safe everyone! These are some crazy times!

-Ken W

Ken Williams wrote: Just finished writing the first pass at the book. 300 Pages. Now starts the editing. Lots of editing... It still feels like I'm on track to have some draft copies by early September. After I get feedback I'll do another round or two of editing with a goal of finishing by November.

I took a quick break from the editing to think about what the book cover might look like. Here's my first effort. Once I get something I like I'll turn it over to an artist to do something prettier...

Grin. I'm a little worried it will be TOO interesting. I'm making an edit pass now to look for all the things I probably shouldn't have said. I'm about 2/3rds through the book. It appears that if I remove all of the things I shouldn't have said, the book will dwindle from 300 pages to 1 paragraph. Darn!

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Ken Williams wrote: From Ken Williams -

FYI - I sent out the review copies of my book. It is 99% finished and should arrive, to the 50 people here who sent me their addresses, during the first week of September. I'll give people a week or two to give feedback, and then release it probably in October.
And .. to get notified when my book is released, you can go to this site: www.kensbook.com (most of you were there, so .. you already know all it covers!)