I've had Trek brought back on my radar due to Discovery and picked up the first Discovery novel and have been getting back into the books and am saddened to read here that it's not exactly a prime time to get back into things. Hopefully something is announced soon.
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There’s always the several hundred novels released previously!
I don't know, I think I'd say it's a good time. Now you have time to get caught up before new books start coming out again.
Meanwhile, it's February 2018 already and still no word on the renewed contract, let alone anything resembling a publishing schedule / plan for new Trek books.. I really (REALLY) hope that this doesn't signal the end of the current TrekLit continuity..
(I believe in any case Trek literature will continue, but it's the current continuity / body of work which I 'd hate to see discontinued)
(I believe in any case Trek literature will continue, but it's the current continuity / body of work which I 'd hate to see discontinued)
My optimism is getting harder and harder to maintain. Back when they announced that the books were now able to include stuff from the Kelvin movies, it sounded to me like they were almost done with the contract. That was August and we've heard nothing since then. I know there was a slowdown following some changes in Simon & Schuster's leadership, but 7 months seems like a pretty long time if all that was needed was for one person to look over the contract.
I live in hope more than expectation that the Star Trek novels from Pocket will continue.
However, I only started reading the novels in 2016 so I have shelves full to be going on with in the meantime.
However, I only started reading the novels in 2016 so I have shelves full to be going on with in the meantime.
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Precisely. Really sours me.
It's not "disregard." As a general rule in business, the parties in an ongoing contract negotiation aren't allowed to talk about it publicly until the contracts are signed, the proposals are approved, etc. I'm actually surprised we've heard as much as we have, like the announcements Ed Schlesinger made at the convention last year. He probably had to get permission to say that much.
So the silence from the parties involved is probably a good sign -- it means the negotiations are still ongoing. I have no idea why they're taking this long, but if they'd fallen through, we would've heard something by now.
When I was working (at a large multinational) the company merged twice in the space of four years.
The first the staff knew was when the Stock Exchange was informed.
The first the staff knew was when the Stock Exchange was informed.
Exactly. This isn't "disregard." It's just business. In what other industry would a company be expected to post regular updates on ongoing contract negotiations while said talks were in progress?
Honestly, I don't have any inside info here, but even if I did I wouldn't blab about it all over the internet. That would be unprofessional.
Honestly, I don't have any inside info here, but even if I did I wouldn't blab about it all over the internet. That would be unprofessional.
Eh, just feels like we're slipping farther and farther into 2018 without things being up and running, so we're staring at a lost year if we don't get this going soon.
Yes, can't talk about deals that aren't done yet, but this also should have been hashed out a while ago so that it didn't impact publishing. It's kinda like the budget nonsense in Washington lately: they're arguing about the budget in February when the fiscal year started back in October and should have been approved over the summer. They kick the can once or twice more, and the year will be over without ever having a budget.
If the contracts were all in place tomorrow, when would we start seeing books again? is 2018 basically lost already, unless they just republish old stuff and see if they can get someone to put something together ASAP for November/December?
Yes, can't talk about deals that aren't done yet, but this also should have been hashed out a while ago so that it didn't impact publishing. It's kinda like the budget nonsense in Washington lately: they're arguing about the budget in February when the fiscal year started back in October and should have been approved over the summer. They kick the can once or twice more, and the year will be over without ever having a budget.
If the contracts were all in place tomorrow, when would we start seeing books again? is 2018 basically lost already, unless they just republish old stuff and see if they can get someone to put something together ASAP for November/December?
I think it goes without saying that it would've been if it could've been. It's been renewed much more smoothly many times before. For whatever reason, this is an exception. I doubt anyone involved wanted it to take this long. But somehow it has.
Hard to say. Normally, from the time an editor invites an author to do a new book to the time the book comes out is typically something like a year and a half, give or take. Under pressure, though, the process can be accelerated to just a few months, although it's difficult and probably expensive to speed it up that much. And reprints have been used to fill gaps in the schedule before.
Aside from a few tweaks as a result of things the subsequent movies have made obsolete.
Plus, don't forget that we have, besides Pocket, two other publishers who might be interested in publishing Trek fiction. So maybe there is a discussion over Pocket's "exclusivity" of Trek fiction.
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