[Mercedes-Lackey] US vs UK

[Melanie Dymond Harper]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:30:42AM -0500, Aya the Vampire Slayer wrote:
> I know that many (most? all?) of Misty's books are released in the UK a
> few months after their release in the US. However, I was wondering if
> there are changes made to the content of the book between the US and UK
> releases other than the cover art (in a similar way that the Harry Potter
> books are changed for the US releases)?
> 
> Does anyone have any idea? Has anyone ever compared the two releases
> against each other? Perhaps this is a Paul question, if he still happens
> to be subscribed to this list.
>

I've never noticed any, but I wouldn't have expected to see any other
than possibly spelling changes (e.g. color => colour) in any case; I
don't think you'd get anything of the same scale as the HP title change
("Philosopher's Stone" in the UK mutated to "Sorceror's Stone" in the US
-- or was that just for the film?).

I would be interested to compare a US edition of "Phoenyx and Ashes" with
a UK one since it's set in the UK anyhow; my copy, however, is (a) a US
edition and (b) as yet unread 'cause it only arrived this week.

It's certainly not unheard of to get the same book released under
different titles in the US and the UK -- while I suspect that the
intersection of Mercedes Lackey fans and Michael Marshall (Smith) fans is
very small (possibly limited to myself and my husband...), MM(S)'s last
novel came out as _The Upright Man_ in the US and _The Lonely Dead_ in
the UK, and the next one will also have a different title in each market.

Cheers

Mel