Build Your Own Publishing Schedule- 2014 Edition

[DimesDan]

^ Are you out of your mind? You'd have me try to write five Star Trek novels in one year? Are you trying to kill me? Thank heavens this is all just "fantasy Trek-ball."

Indeed and looking at it, it may be a bit of an over kill.

Although think of the money, the kudos of being on the New York best sellers list five times in a year and the amount of Jack you'll have to consume for it too work.

 

[JD]

Doesn't Pocket/S&S publish the Academy books?

A different imprint of Pocket, but yes, it's still S&S.

The impression I've gotten was that Bad Robot didn't want anything set between the movies that they weren't personally involved with. This isn't from any kind of specific statement, but it was the impression that I've gotten from what's been released, and a few comments here and there. Pretty much everything that's been released set after the movie has been made with Orci's involvement.

Bad Robot's control over the Abramsverse tie-ins applies universally, whether it's before or after the '09 movie. Just because Orci's name isn't on the YA novels doesn't mean Bad Robot isn't approving and overseeing them. (Orci doesn't even work for Bad Robot, at least not anymore. He and Kurtzman have graduated to having their own production company, K/O Paper Products, that's a production partner on Into Darkness.) Bad Robot's approach is for all the tie-ins to their continuity to be closely controlled and coordinated. And for whatever reason, they haven't chosen to include adult novels in their tie-in strategy. It doesn't matter whether they're set before or after the movie. If it were as simple as that, we could've done prequel novels just like the YA imprint did.

I realized that Bad Robot had to approve the YA books, I just thought that they might have been less concerned with them since they were set before the movie. I still find it weird that they've let all of those be published, but not the adult books. The only noticeable difference was when they were set, so I thought that might have been the reason they weren't published.
I had forgotten that Orci and Kurtzman's K/O Paper Products though. Does that mean that any Abamsverse tie-ins after Into Darkness comes out would have to be approved by K/O too, or would it still just be Paramount, CBS, and Bad Robot?

 

[Christopher]

I had forgotten that Orci and Kurtzman's K/O Paper Products though. Does that mean that any Abamsverse tie-ins after Into Darkness comes out would have to be approved by K/O too, or would it still just be Paramount, CBS, and Bad Robot?

I'm not really sure how it works. You'd have to talk to someone who's actually in the loop. Orci comments regularly on TrekMovie.com, and sometimes does Q&A threads, so maybe you could ask him there.

 

[rahullak]

I'd like 2014 to have all 24th century stories.

Why would Pocket ignore the 23rd Century (TOS) when it sells the best?

Well seeing as the title of the thread we are in is "Build your own Publishing schedule" and he used the words "I'd like..." I don't think it was about what Pocket should do but more what he would prefer.

Yep, this. Title's pretty clear in soliciting OUR imagined/fantasy schedules, so we could pretty much throw in any imagined Trek-related novels we want. I wasn't even that creative when I said 24th century, was I?

 

[Fer]

What I'd like to see is a lot of variety-- a mix of both TV and original-to-TrekLit novels, along the lines of:

JAN: TOS
FEB: DTI by Christopher L. Bennett
MAR: TNG
APR: Corps of Engineers (a new hardcopy collection of the next uncollected stories, as well as a return of (at least one) new eBook)
MAY: JJ-verse
JUN: TITAN
JUL: DS9
AUG: AVENTINE
SEP: VOY by Kirsten Beyer
OCT: New Frontier by Peter David
NOV: ENT: Rise of the Federation by Christopher L. Bennett
DEC: a Special Event title

I enjoy all the current TrekLit authors, so besides the specific cases I mentioned above I'd be happy with whoever wrote what!

I rather like the TNG ebooks, as they feel more like episodes since they're shorter, so I'd like to see more of those thrown in as well.

 

[Enterpriserules]

As much Voyager and DS9 as possible, more from Christopher on Enterprise (I'm fairly sure, anyway...), the start of a totally brand new series that's completely incredible, and a year off of TOS completely.

I want this!

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

Sure, why not?

JAN: TOS novel set during the 5-year mission
FEB: TMP-era TOS novel
MAR: Captain Pike-era TOS novel
APR: Lost Era featuring Enterprise-B under Demora Sulu's command
MAY: Lost Era featuring Enterprise-C
JUN: Stargazer novel (featuring its first deep space exploration assignment post-Maker)
JULY: DS9-R novel
AUG: TNG novel set during the original series
SEPT: Titan
OCT: TNG-R / Second Decade
NOV: VOY-R
DEC: ENT / Rise of the Federation

ETA: I'd also launch a new monthly eBook novella series, a la Corps of Engineer, featuring either the Stargazer or another original crew. Hey, it's my dream schedule...

 

[Avro Arrow]

AUG: TNG novel set during the original series

I'm reasonably sure you're referring to a novel set during the TNG series run, but now the thought of a TNG novel set during TOS intrigues me...

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

AUG: TNG novel set during the original series

I'm reasonably sure you're referring to a novel set during the TNG series run, but now the thought of a TNG novel set during TOS intrigues me...

LOL yes, I meant a TNG novel set during the original run of the series, not during the TOS era. Although hey...