Trust me. She is a huge, big deal.
She outsells all of us.
Although, just to show off, I actually wrote the original cover copy for the first "Anita Blake" novel--so I clearly turned her into the bestseller she is today!
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Trust me. She is a huge, big deal.
She outsells all of us.
Although, just to show off, I actually wrote the original cover copy for the first "Anita Blake" novel--so I clearly turned her into the bestseller she is today!
kkozoriz1
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Trust me. She is a huge, big deal.
She outsells all of us.
Although, just to show off, I actually wrote the original cover for the first "Anita Blake" novel--so I clearly turned her into the bestseller she is today!
Oh, I have no trouble believing that. It's just that since I moved to a rural area and started doing most book shopping online, I haven't really been checking the shelves of the bookstores. Next time I'm in Halifax I'll have to make a point of stopping into a Chapters.
I feel your pain. I live in Amish country and the nearest non-Christian bookstore is at least forty-five minutes away.
Try to find a DVD for sale in Shipshewana, Indiana, like my niece tried to do one year. Got to admit, though, PA has that beat.
kkozoriz1
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Walking, car or horse drawn wagon?
That's part of the reason I've held off reading Losing the Peace. I was relying on the back cover blurb which I've been told, by no less than William Leisner himself, has pretty much nothing right.
But how many of those were worth buying/reading?
And a tie-in calendar, and IDW trade omnibuses of "Countdown", "Nero" and "Spock Reflections". Coming soon is the comic movie adaptation in trade and several YA novels.
Vonda's "The Entropy Effect" was reprinted only a few years ago (2006), complete with new cover art, and her ST II, III, IV movie adaptations were revised and collected for a "Signature Edition" trade in 2004 (entitled Duty, Honor, Redemption).
Therin of Andor said:
Sorry to nitpick, but isn't that a prequel to the TNG "Unification" two-parter, with only the slightest of links (reused art) to STXI? Spock's presence and trip to Romulus makes it no more a STXI prequel than "Vulcan's Heart", "Crossover" and "Captain's Blood" are.
It was produced specifically as a tie-in to ST XI, an exploration of Spock's life history in the Prime universe as a sort of prologue to the film. There was no "reused" art, since it came out before the film and its comics adaptation, but it did incorporate some design elements (such as the Vulcan Science Academy hall) from the film. Yes, there was a lack of explicit ties to the film, since the film hadn't come out yet and they didn't want to give anything away, but it had thematic elements that served to set up where Spock Prime would be in his life as seen in the film. It was indeed designed and marketed as an ST XI prequel, whereas the others you cite were not.
And it wasn't a prequel to "Unification," but a followup to Generations. The frame story was about Spock travelling back from Romulus to retrieve Kirk's body from Veridian III and inter it at his home in Iowa. So just as Countdown was intended as a segue from TNG into the events of the new film, so Reflections was intended as something of a segue from TOS.
Star Wars still has a billion different things coming out, and I'd say they have a hit ratio pretty on par with Star Trek, at least for me. (Though both lines suffer from some of the same problems, I think.)
Star Wars have stories that are set over 40 years after Episode IV, and since they stick with the same core characters, it is getting ridiculous. Han Solo must be in his 70s by now and he is still out there saving the galaxy like a teenager. Harrison Ford almost embarrassed himself in Indy IV and yet they tack 10 years on to that? I don't buy it.
I know Trek has many characters in their advanced age, but Trek has at least established that people live a lot longer in their future. I don't think Star Wars has done anything similar. I don't think SW needs to kill off their original characters, but they should at least remove them from the active list of butt kickers.
Star Wars must sell a lot lot more books than Trek. I am way more interested in what is happening in the Trek world but often I have to wait more than a year for the next book from a particular series. If anything SW has too many books while Trek now has not enough.
Star Wars is bigger than Star Trek by a metric fuckload. This should not be news to anyone. It's been the case for quite a few years now.
Can you specify exactly how many grams make up a "fuckload"?
Alas, no. It is beyond our capacity to measure.
Can you specify exactly how many grams make up a "fuckload"?
A fuckload is ten shitloads.
I prefer quality over quantity and for my money Trek books are better than SW books.
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