can anyone answer this?

are there any plans for an updated nitpickers guide, covering seasons 1 thru 7?

thanx

No, Anonymous, there will be NO more guides:

http://www.nitcentral.com/newslett/98ocnews.htm

October 3, 1998

Greetings Fellow Nitpickers and Proud Members of the Nitpickers Guild!

As you've no doubt figured out by now, this newsletter is significantly shorter than normal! A bit of recap is necessary before I explain why just in case there are some of you who haven't heard the unfortunate news.

In mid-May--after working for three months on a Nitpicker's Guide for Star Wars--I received a call from my agent Steve Ettlinger. Steve told me Dell Publishing was canceling the project and all future projects. There had been some lawsuits in the industry with regards to the unauthorized publishing genre and Dell felt the risk was too great to continue publishing the Nitpicker's Guides (even though no one has ever called into question the legalities of the Guides . . . but that's another story).

Since that time, Steve has attempted in find other publishers for the guides. He has been unsuccessful. A Nitpicker's Guide is sufficiently thick and complex that it requires a full-time commitment on my part and that in turn drives the necessity for a healthy advanced royalty and there just aren't that many publishers who can--or are willing--to risk that kind of money on a project that has the potential to provoke litigation.

So, that left me with only one real choice and I've made it: I've returned to programming. Currently, I'm working as a consulting doing business application development. Honestly, I've having a blast! I really enjoy working with the people and they seem to be happy with the work!
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And as far as that Star Wars project goes, since I had finished reviewing the original three movies, I was intending to publish that part of the book myself but if I do that, I will owe Dell half the money that they paid for the first installment of the advance royalty so it really makes no sense as a business undertaking. That said, I will probably just upload it to the webpage in a month or so.

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Happy nitpicking, everyone. Phil Farrand

The demise of the guides kind of led to the creation of this great board! (In a round-about, tortured manner.)
-Lisa Shock, formerly Lisa Ferrington, referenced in the NG II Guide, and the Classic Guide