Do you want ongoing novels on the Kelvin Universe
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I admit I laughed when I saw that David Mack's Kelvin novel would have been called More Beautiful Than Death. Since Mack kills off characters left and right in his novels, it's nice to see that he's found something MORE beautiful. 
Didn't elements of it get re-worked into his TOS novel featuring Seven of Nine?
I think so. And I think I remember Christopher saying he used parts of his in other works already too.
Why?
No thanks you, even if Mr. Bennett took a crack at it.
Common sense. We are the customers, and if we don't receive a product we were promised, we are entitled to know why.
We're only really customers if there's a financial agreement between ourselves and the company. If we haven't given money for a product, we aren't a customer of that product. We're just an intended audience.
Even a pre-order is at best a grey area, but no actual financial commitment is made with a pre-order, so I still wouldn't say someone with a pre-order is a customer.
Depends on your method of payment. If you use your credit card, than no, the money isn't charged to your card until the item ships. If you're paying with a gift card or an account set up on the site you're ordering from (Amazon does have such an option) than, yes, the money is taken from your card/account upon making your order. Granted, you get an instant refund once a cancellation announcement is made, but for people paying by this method, they did spend money on those Abramsverse books (yes, I'll still use that term) and were therefore customers.
Oh, I didn't realize that. That's fair, yeah.
I read the 4 Academy books. I found the stories to be interesting, and a few little canon Easter eggs are sprinkled into them.
But Kirk seems to wind up with a new girlfriend in every one. I get that, I suppose, because they're supposed to be youth fiction and that's what teens like. (Not every episode of TOS had Kirk love interests.)
But Kirk seems to wind up with a new girlfriend in every one. I get that, I suppose, because they're supposed to be youth fiction and that's what teens like. (Not every episode of TOS had Kirk love interests.)
On the other hand, Kirk was frequently running into old girlfriends on TOS, so they needed to come from somewhere in his youth!
I stay with the prime universe
Hi Greg, you wrote one of the cancelled books called.....The Hazards of Concealing.On the other hand, Kirk was frequently running into old girlfriends on TOS, so they needed to come from somewhere in his youth!
you must have been sad it got cancelled.I know I am.
Too late: "Abramsverse" already caught on, and has been generally understood for some time.
As I've already pointed out in another thread, it's hardly "too late." First off, "Abramsverse" is far from universally accepted; lots of people use "NuTrek" or "JJ-Trek" or something like that. And second, fan nicknames have given way to official titles before, as when "Classic Trek" gave way to The Original Series/TOS.
Besides, even though I used it as the least awful of the available bad options, "Abramsverse" is a terrible name for it and I'm glad to stop using it. After all, Abrams is just one guy. Other filmmakers might do movies or shows set in that continuity after Bad Robot has moved on to other things. It doesn't make long-term sense to tie a part of a shared-universe franchise made by many hands to a single individual like that. It's also too informal a nickname to use in a reference work like the Encyclopedia, or an in-universe context like how Star Trek Online will apparently be using it.
I sulked for a weekend, then got back on the horse and kept plugging away at my next book.. Not the only time I wrote a book that never saw print.. Probably won't be the last . Writing for a living is not for the faint-hearted.
Every writer has written things that never got published. That's how every writer starts out. Like the saying goes, the first million words are practice. It's just a fact of life that not everything you write will see the light of day, for one reason or another. So you just move on to the next thing, and the next, and the next. Maybe you can cannibalize ideas and rework them into something that does sell. It's just part of the job. And it was six and a half years ago. That's a long time. We've moved on.
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