2018 Releases

[The Wormhole]

With any luck there wont be a gap in releasing novels early next year.

It's the end of August and there's no announcements yet regarding 2018. I think we have to consider it a very real possibility there will be a gap of at least the first 2-3 months next year.

I think after so many years of them never rereleasing ebooks as paperbacks we have to acknowledge that either the current editors just aren't interested in ever doing that, or it's not financially worth the effort in today's marketplace.

Everyone else does print editions of their e-book originals, so there is financial viability to it. So it likely is just a case of those calling the shots of the Trek line not being interested in doing so. Although with potential gaps in the publishing schedule, this idea should be considered, IMO.

 

[tomswift2002]

It's the end of August and there's no announcements yet regarding 2018. I think we have to consider it a very real possibility there will be a gap of at least the first 2-3 months next year.

So after January, we probably won't see a new story till about May, since as Christopher Bennett has pointed out in the past, January is the end of the 2017 publishing year. So the first 2-3 months of the 2018 publishing year would be February to April.

Everyone else does print editions of their e-book originals, so there is financial viability to it. So it likely is just a case of those calling the shots of the Trek line not being interested in doing so. Although with potential gaps in the publishing schedule, this idea should be considered, IMO.

Especially after the gaps in the 2017 schedule.

 

[Reanok]

I hope sometime soon we'll get a list of some of the Star Trek books coming out next year.

 

[JD]

How long would it take to put together a collection of the e-book novella from idea to final publication?
Some of these gaps, like the ones for Discovery popped up pretty quickly, so I have to wonder if they would even had time to put together something to fill those gaps.

 

[The Wormhole]

So after January, we probably won't see a new story till about May, since as Christopher Bennett has pointed out in the past, January is the end of the 2017 publishing year.

When he says "January" he is referring to the novel released at the end of December, which is considered the January novel. That novel is Kirsten Beyer's next Voyager novel. So, my personal theory is there won't be a novel at the end of January, February or possibly even March. So, yea, the end of April is the earliest I'm expecting a Trek novel, which I guess would be considered the May novel.

 

[tenmei]

Well - we know there's a second Discovery novel, I thought? Probably a roll on from when DISCO was due to air much earlier, I expect so still under the old contract. I'm guessing they'll put this out to coincide with the latter half of the first season, maybe to come out a week or two after the finale?

 

[Jarvisimo]

When he says "January" he is referring to the novel released at the end of December, which is considered the January novel. That novel is Kirsten Beyer's next Voyager novel. So, my personal theory is there won't be a novel at the end of January, February or possibly even March. So, yea, the end of April is the earliest I'm expecting a Trek novel, which I guess would be considered the May novel.

God, that's really depressing!

 

[Oz Trekkie]

Are the comics covered by the same agreement? Are we going to get some Trek Lit in those months?

 

[Christopher]

Are the comics covered by the same agreement?

The comics are from a totally different publisher, who would have their own separate licensing agreement. Recall that Pocket has held the Star Trek novel license since 1979 (even if Bantam's leftover books meant it couldn't publish anything original until '81), and in that 38-year period there have been six different comics licensees (Marvel two separate times, DC, Malibu, Wildstorm, TokyoPop, and IDW). Seven if you count the LA Times newspaper comic strip.

 

[JD]

IDW holds the Trek license right now.
I think at least one or two of the book publishers actually do publish some graphic novels, but I don't think Pocket ever has.

 

[The Wormhole]

Are the comics covered by the same agreement? Are we going to get some Trek Lit in those months?

There is no reason to expect a gap for any Trek comics, and indeed IDW does have a few trade paperback anthologies due out in this period.

 

[JWolf]

If there is a delay in new Trek novels due to the contract negotiations, hopefully S&S will reprint in paperback the rest of Star Trek SCE and Star Trek The Next Generation Slings & Arrows along with the rest of the various e-novellas that have been released over the last few years.

I hope that never happens. That would spoil eBook only releases.

I've been wishing for a long time that Sling & Arrows would be published as a book.

They are books. eBooks are still books.

 

[tomswift2002]

I hope that never happens. That would spoil eBook only releases.

How? The SCE stories have been ebooks for 10 years now, same with Slings and Arrows. Reprinting them as physical books would breath new sales life into those books and even attract new readers.

 

[Greg Cox]

I wouldn't mind a print edtion of MIASMA one of these days, just so I can have an actual physical copy for my brag shelf. It does feel kinda weird to have a book that only exists as a computer file somewhere . . . .

 

[Jinn]

I wouldn't mind a print edtion of MIASMA one of these days, just so I can have an actual physical copy for my brag shelf. It does feel kinda weird to have a book that only exists as a computer file somewhere . . . .

You could print it out and staple the pages together. Or load a copy on a USB stick and put it on your shelf.

 

[Christopher]

You could print it out and staple the pages together. Or load a copy on a USB stick and put it on your shelf.

I keep the printed galley pages from Typhon Pact: The Struggle Within folded in half on my bookshelf on top of the other TP novels, or as close to them as I can fit it. That was when they still physically mailed the galleys instead of just e-mailing a PDF.

 

[Greg Cox]

It's funny. I used to have a ritual. Whenever a book was finally published, I would toss out all the old drafts, copyedits, page proofs, Post-It notes, etc.

Not quite as satisfying now that everything is done electronically!

 

[ATimson]

It's funny. I used to have a ritual. Whenever a book was finally published, I would toss out all the old drafts, copyedits, page proofs, Post-It notes, etc.

Not quite as satisfying now that everything is done electronically!

Move the files from your hard disk onto a floppy, then get out an industrial-strength magnet.

 

[Paul Weaver]

Move the files from your hard disk onto a floppy, then get out an industrial-strength magnet.

Or a streamroller: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-41093066

 

[Mage]

I hope that never happens. That would spoil eBook only releases.

You need to explain that to me, I don't really understand that.....