Doug Drexler Visits Pocket Books

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/we-visit-pocket-books/#more-7495

You can get a glimpse on Margaret Clark's desk of next year's 2010 Ships of the Line and on the computer screen, the cover to Vanguard: Flashpoint.

 

[Dayton Ward]

I think he means Vanguard: Precipice. At least, that's the novel Dave was working on that last time we talked Vanguard. Not that it matters...as I'm still drooling over tasty TOS imagery...

 

[Defcon]

the cover to Vanguard: Flashpoint.

Mhh, three options I guess:

They renamed the sixth Vanguard novel

Doug just revealed the (working) title of a potential seventh novel

It's just a mistake.

Discuss.

ETA: I see Dayton beat me to it.

 

[Paris]

Sweeeeet! Does anyone know if Flashpoint going to be the sixth Vanguard book, or will there be one in between? After Precipice shouldn't it be Dayton & Kevin's turn? I guess with multiple authors it doesn't really matter. That SotL 2010 calendar is pretty cool looking as well .

 

[Paris]

the cover to Vanguard: Flashpoint.

Mhh, three options I guess:

They renamed the sixth Vanguard novel

Doug just revealed the (working) title of a potential seventh novel

It's just a mistake.

Discuss.

ETA: I see Dayton beat me to it.

What was the original name for book 6 ? I didn't even know it was announced... I thought Open Secrets was #4, while Precipice was #5.

 

[Dayton Ward]

Mhh, three options I guess:

They renamed the sixth Vanguard novel

Doug just revealed the (working) title of a potential seventh novel

It's just a mistake.

Discuss.

ETA: I see Dayton beat me to it.

Precipice is VGD #5.

Book 6's working title, in an attempt to grant The Mollmann's wishes with respect to titles, will be The Taurus Key: A Crystalline Fairy Tale, Founded Upon The Mysteries of the Shedai and the Oppression of Their Servants. It Was Written for Kollotuul, But Others Should Read It.




(To the best of my knowledge, no VGD books are in the works after Precipice, even in the most fleeting sense. I'm almost certain Doug flubbed the book title, as Mack told me the other day that he'd seen the cover art for Precipice in Margaret's office while Doug was in town.)

 

[DarkHorizon]

Note that Doug mentions tie-in projects (plural) connected to the new movie... and seems to be suggesting non-fiction works...

Really want to figure out what all those manuscript sections are. I spy: Unspoken Truth, Unworthy, Synthesis, Seven Deadly Sins, Never-Ending Sacrifice, The Soul Key, and Troublesome Minds, but there are a few in smaller type, and a few that are hidden from view...

 

[nx1701g]

Is that Starbase under construction or under attack?

 

[Defcon]

the cover to Vanguard: Flashpoint.

Mhh, three options I guess:

They renamed the sixth Vanguard novel

Doug just revealed the (working) title of a potential seventh novel

It's just a mistake.

Discuss.

ETA: I see Dayton beat me to it.

What was the original name for book 6 ? I didn't even know it was announced... I thought Open Secrets was #4, while Precipice was #5.

My bad, I think I confused the numbers of Titan and Vanguard.

 

[Rat Boy]

I guess my manuscript for Everybody Comes to Grignak's got lost in the mail.

 

[David Mack]

Flashpoint was an early working title for VGD #5, but Marco shot it down because there had been a previous Star Trek story or episode with that title. Precipice is the fifth novel in the Vanguard series.

Also, though there aren't any Vanguard books yet planned beyond Precipice, the story is not going to be wrapped up in that book. It's my hope that there might yet be a couple more books in the series….

 

[Dayton Ward]

^ Well, yeah....that'd be nice

 

[captcalhoun]

the entry's been corrected to say 'Precipice'.

 

[Christopher]

Flashpoint was an early working title for VGD #5, but Marco shot it down because there had been a previous Star Trek story or episode with that title.

That's odd, I can't find any reference on Memory Alpha or Beta to such a title, except as the working title of DS9: "The Adversary." (There's also Flashpoint Sinister, one of the books Veronica Fletcher wrote in Destiny. Maybe Marco thought you were repeating yourself?)

 

[8of5]

Flashpoint was an early working title for VGD #5, but Marco shot it down because there had been a previous Star Trek story or episode with that title.

That's odd, I can't find any reference on Memory Alpha or Beta to such a title, except as the working title of DS9: "The Adversary." (There's also Flashpoint Sinister, one of the books Veronica Fletcher wrote in Destiny. Maybe Marco thought you were repeating yourself?)

"Flash Point" is a TNG short story in Strange New Worlds IV

 

[Kirks_Flying_Wig]

I spy an Unspoken Truth manuscript on that shelf. Nice to see that book coming along!

 

[JD]

Flashpoint was an early working title for VGD #5, but Marco shot it down because there had been a previous Star Trek story or episode with that title. Precipice is the fifth novel in the Vanguard series.

Also, though there aren't any Vanguard books yet planned beyond Precipice, the story is not going to be wrapped up in that book. It's my hope that there might yet be a couple more books in the series….

Only a couple?

 

[Phlox's Tongue]

Where can i get the image of your avatar Dayton? and all covers wtihout they text? They are great!

 

[Stevil2001]

Book 6's working title, in an attempt to grant The Mollmann's wishes with respect to titles, will be The Taurus Key: A Crystalline Fairy Tale, Founded Upon The Mysteries of the Shedai and the Oppression of Their Servants. It Was Written for Kollotuul, But Others Should Read It.

Man, I will not only actually buy this book instead of reading it in the bookstore, I will buy a copy for every friend I have!

 

[Sxottlan]

That image of Spacedock under construction is better than anything in the '09 calendar. Looking forward to it.

Love the little peak into where the books stay in the embryonic stage.

It's my hope that there might yet be a couple more books in the series….

Don't know if this was your intention, but this sounds like there isn't much more to the series?