We heard from three of the four authors of the shelved post-2009 "Kelvin Timeline" novels that their stories would have been overwrittten by the events of "Into Darkness". So it was a no-win scenario.
Discovery to get tie-ins!
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We heard from three of the four authors of the shelved post-2009 "Kelvin Timeline" novels that their stories would have been overwrittten by the events of "Into Darkness". So it was a no-win scenario.
Wow, this is fantastic news! 
The more I hear about Discovery, the more I'm liking it. Can't wait till January!
The more I hear about Discovery, the more I'm liking it. Can't wait till January!
Hi-five for Dave!
Not really, since novels can always be rewritten. In this case, though, Bad Robot just preferred to maintain close in-house control of its tie-ins and decided they could do that better with comics and games. Or something like that. Discovery seems to be trying to do much the same thing, but in a more novel-oriented way, through Kirsten. Which maybe makes sense, since it's from CBS, which has a long-established working relationship with Pocket.
I would assume, though, that this relationship is about keeping the Discovery novels consistent with the show. I'm not holding my breath for the show to incorporate any ideas from the novelverse.
This is fantastic news, the more TrekLit the better!
Good news! It'll be interesting to see how Discovery's lit ties in to the rest of the novelverse.
My guess: not at all to start with, since it'll be geared toward new readers only familiar with the show. And I expect the rest of the lit will have to do some retcons over the next few years to try to reconcile with whatever new stuff DSC establishes about Trek aliens or the 23rd century
That's what I'm looking forward to most. I love it when tie-ins have to deal with stuff like that. It's fascinating to me.
Is that an educated guess @Christopher based on your intimate knowledge of the industry or do you have something more, like inside information? You can tell me. I will be very discreet.
covery novel.
Not that we needed any convincing but Bryan Fuller has described Kirsten as fabulous:
https://twitter.com/BryanFuller/status/772165656477249536
https://twitter.com/BryanFuller/status/772165656477249536
But the books were due in shops long before the script for "Into Darkness" was ready. Wouldn't it have been a situation like happened to DC Comics between STII and ST III?
Is that an educated guess @Christopher based on your intimate knowledge of the industry or do you have something more, like inside information? You can tell me. I will be very discreet.
I was as surprised by the news of Dave's new gig as anyone else. At the moment, I know nothing more about it than the general public does. Honestly, if I had any inside information, I'd probably be keeping my mouth shut about the whole thing for fear of letting something slip. Indeed, maybe I should shut up about it anyway because I don't have anything to offer but guesswork.
Oh, I see what you mean. Probably it would've been more like the fate of any early tie-ins to a new series that end up looking weird in retrospect, like Ghost Ship or The Children of Hamlin, say. After all, the comics were telling a serialized narrative and had to try to fit the movies into it, whereas tie-ins to a series in progress tend to be standalone and easily set aside if later canon conflicts with them. (There was a subtle continuity among the early DS9 novels -- surprisingly apt, given how that series and its tie-ins later developed -- but it didn't last long.) Had our books come out, they would've just ended up being more standalones that later canon rendered obsolete.
Well, he changed his facebook cover photo to the Star Trek: Discovery logo on July 23rd...
Might be able to go back earlier to around July 6 based on this twitter exchange:
https://twitter.com/DavidAlanMack/status/772306646643027968
Excited for this!