Aw, crud! Margaret Clark is gone now, too.

[Christopher]

I don't think there's any reason to assume Pocket is pulling away from tie-ins. The downsizings that took Marco's and Margaret's jobs were companywide throughout Simon & Schuster, not targeted specifically at the tie-in line. They're asking many of their divisions to get by with fewer employees due to the sad state of the economy and the publishing industry in general. It's got nothing to do with their intentions toward the tie-in business specifically.

 

[Greg Cox]

I don't think there's any reason to assume Pocket is pulling away from tie-ins. The downsizings that took Marco's and Margaret's jobs were companywide throughout Simon & Schuster, not targeted specifically at the tie-in line. They're asking many of their divisions to get by with fewer employees due to the sad state of the economy and the publishing industry in general. It's got nothing to do with their intentions toward the tie-in business specifically.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

Now I'm going to get back to writing those tie-ins . . . .

(Trust me, if I thought that tie-ins were dying, I wouldn't be glued to my keyboard on Labor Day!)

 

[Lorraine Anderson]

Oh, I don't think tie-ins, generally, are dying. It just seems less likely for someone like me, with only a couple of credits, to break into Trek tie-ins these days.

 

[Christopher]

I had only two professional credits to my name when I broke into Trek tie-ins.

 

[Defcon]

Yeah, but back then S.C.E./CoE, which was pretty much the series bringing a lot of people into TrekLit and Marco, who was the editor being more experimental with his authors, were still around.

 

[William Leisner]

Yeah, but back then S.C.E./CoE, which was pretty much the series bringing a lot of people into TrekLit and Marco, who was the editor being more experimental with his authors, were still around.

I feel it necessary to point out that Margaret contracted yours truly to write his first full-length novel, no less an "experimental" choice than Dayton Ward or Dave Mack were when they did their first novels.

 

[Greg Cox]

And Ordover hired Betancourt and I largely on the basis of a couple of BATMAN stories we'd written. (And, okay, the fact that John and I used to share a cubicle at Tor.)

 

[Technobuilder]

I only found out the news, this past weekend at DragonCon when I stumbled upon KRAD's panel reading. I was pretty shocked by the news, and wish her and her family only the best in these tough times.

 

[Man of Steel]

Don't forget:

Star Trek: YA Series

Marc, when did Pocket announce a young adult Star Trek series?

They didn't Allyn.

They used to have one. Early 90's.

 

[rafterman1701]

Sad news about Margaret, but not surprising. It's always about the bottom line and people cost money. Like pretty much every business, S&S is trying to stay afloat. I know the Trek line will continue. It may be different and some series may go away and some stories might not get resolved, but it's too soon to freak out.

 

[Man of Steel]

Did they name a replacement yet?

 

[Ronald Held]

I thought that the workload was to be absorbed by other current editors?

 

[Scott Pearson]

I thought that the workload was to be absorbed by other current editors?

It's an internal replacement. They still need to restructure the remaining editorial staff and decided who's in charge of which series and such.

 

[Greg Cox]

Basically, they put our names in a hat and take turns pulling them out. "Okay, Ed, you got Mack. Jen, you got KRAD. Ed, you get CSI and the calendars. Jen, you get NEW FRONTIER and that slasher movie novelization . . . "

(Draws another name.)

"Oops! Tough luck. You got Cox . . . ."

JUST KIDDING!

 

[David cgc]

(Draws another name.)

"Oops! Tough luck. You got Cox . . . ."

Must... resist... obvious... joke...

 

[JB2005]

^ But I love Cox...

(Resistance is futile)

 

[JarodRussell]

Years ago I met a guy called Cox Tucker, and that's no joke.

 

[Greg Cox]

And let's not forget the library listing for an anthology I co-edited years ago:

TOMORROW SUCKS,Cox.

As God is my witness, I didn't do that on purpose!

 

[ryan123450]

Years ago I met a guy called Cox Tucker, and that's no joke.

There's a man in my town named Richard Head. Why would a parent do that to a child?

 

[David cgc]

And let's not forget the library listing for an anthology I co-edited years ago:

TOMORROW SUCKS,Cox.

As God is my witness, I didn't do that on purpose!

I remember, I was trying to remember what that was like, two years ago. I was telling someone, "Yeah, there was this really funny thing with Greg Cox's name in an index or something. It'll come to me sooner or later," but it never did.

And so the circle of life continues.