Discovery: Drastic Measures pre-release thread

Well to be fair, it's not as though Pocket is above such a method. *cough cough* The Body Electric *cough cough*

 

True but it’s just a cover. I just find using stock photos from the show and photoshoping them for the cover to look rather cheap.
If I was to do it, I would have a picture of the ship they use in warp, a picture of Kudos, Young Kirk and Lorca.

 

I imagine there are multiple factors leading to Desperate Hours and Drastic Measures having covers that look more like newspaper ads for the show than exciting Keith Birdsong paintings. More secrecy for an unreleased show, fewer assets available for artists to use (reference photos and CG), and/or a greater desire from marketing to remain "on brand" are just a few reasons I can think of off the top of my head.

 

On the other hand, these are modern-day 2010s HD reference photos of the actors. That in and of itself is pleasing to me.

 

As David cgc indicates, there is a method to the madness, so to speak, with respect to the book covers and overall brand messaging.

Me? I’m just a hired gun, and I shoot where I’m aimed.

Also, I was a tad inaccurate in my previous post. The Shenzhou is present, albeit very briefly. For the bulk of the story, another ship is featured, and I made sure to describe it as the Starfleet equivalent of “fugly.”

 

Dayton,a new Class of ship or one we have seen before?

 

It’s a class we’ve not seen before.

 

Neat!

 

The first covers for a lot of tie-in series are just reused promo photos or posters, so the covers of the Discovery books are pretty much what I expected.

 

Thanks, Dayton. Maybe someone will do a render of it.

 

Less than a month to go. Yay!

 

I wish Pocket Books made it mandatory that they had to show a picture of every new ship they have in the book. I always find it hard to imagine them.

 

Even if such a policy were in place, it wouldn't have mattered in this case. The cover art direction for the DSC books is coming directly from CBS.

 

I don’t mean as cover art. I mean at the end with a orthos.

 

Orthos? What is that? My search turned up this but that doesn't make sense in this context.

 

Orthos is shorthand for "Orthographic Views" as in diagrams of the front/side/top/bottom/back sides of an object without any perspective distortion.

 

They’ve been used on rare occasions, such as introducing Vanguard station and (I think?) the Titan, but those were centerpieces of ongoing series. It’s very unlikely that the ship used in Drastic Measures will ever be “seen” again.....unless I write another story that needs such a vessel.

 

The Titan one was in the fourth(?) novel following a reader competition launched in the first one.

 

Yes it was. Given how long ago that happened, I'm sure many people here either had forgotten or plain didn't know.

 

I’ve read the first three Titan within the last three months and am a few chapters into the fourth.