Have you tried looking here?

yes

[ August 13, 2002: Message edited by: Cody_J_Cochran ]

and how come Tad is the only Ather at the DAW site with a pic. did he pay them off or something *also looks at Tad* (lol)?

[ August 13, 2002: Message edited by: Cody_J_Cochran ]

Tailchaser's Song is Tad's first book. It was published in hardcover by DAW in the US in 1985. It is my understanding that Tad was not only extraordinarily talented (as we all know), but extremely lucky, landing a sale with the first (iirc) publisher he contacted.

He's way off the norm. ;)

that is also my understanding of it

i think one of you manti (??? can't spell) people should ask him to tell us all (you whould have more leverig in cunvinsing him than a pilgrum whould)

i only want to know becuse i can't think of a publisher beter then DAW, they were the first F&SF only publisher!, and would like to know why someone woulden't start with them

Cody_J_Cochran wrote:

i think one of you manti (??? can't spell) people should ask him to tell us all (you whould have more leverig in cunvinsing him than a pilgrum whould)

If the Mantidae have more influence, it's only because they've been here longer, and with more regularity.  They were made Mantii because Tad respected them, not the other way 'round.

You get respect by earning it, not by wearing a magic label.

Oh, and the rule 'round here on spelling the plural of Mantis is that you can't spell it the same way twice in a row. :-)

I heard that Tad originally sent TailChaser's Song to Penthouse because he heard that they published books and periodicals about pussy cats. They sadly turned him down but they did however like title. :)

I think I saw this on a VH1 behind the music special they did on Tad's band Idiot.

Have a Nekkid night

*snickers at Buma*
I suspect that from the tone of the post you may take that statement with a grain of salt - for example, I doubt that Tad first sent TCS to Penthouse :)

Cody, Tad will listen to you just like he would listen to us Mantids. :) Maybe he would listen to you sooner, than he would to us since we've asked so many questions already. :D

Yalahii.

Busy Busy Nolan wrote:

I bet Tad was going down an alphabetical list.

I doubt he'd miss Ace, Arrow Books, Aspect, Avon Eos, Baen, Bantam (Books/Press/Spectra), Colin Smythe and Corgi though. :)
Admittedly, several of those only publish a little bit of fantasy or science fiction, didn't exist back then, are imprints of other publishers or are UK publishers, but still... (besides, I've got this table with publishernames in my book database - you can't really expect me not to utilize that, can you?) ;)

[ August 14, 2002: Message edited by: Aan allein ]