Footnotes, endnotes or online notes?

[L Verge]

I believe that Mike Kauffman's use of extensive text in many of his endnotes is a result of his publisher demanding significant cuts in the regular manuscript. Mike outfoxed them by adding the "deleted" material into many of his notes.

Any author today is likely told to make drastic cuts to his work. I suppose that printing costs, paper costs, and the readers' capacity to retain just a certain amount of information necessitates this in the modern world. Mr. Hall told me that his manuscript, Murder at Ford's Theatre, was 1400 pages and that his publisher wanted it reduced to 800. He dropped the project for awhile to work with Tidwell and Gaddy on Come Retribution. They had a difficult time with a young editor fresh out of college who changed context while also editing. He got so disgusted that Murder at Ford's Theatre never came to fruition.