2023 book releases

[KRAD]

IDW hit a big bump in the road due to Locke & Key and Wynnona Earp coming to an end with nothing to replace them as a screen adaptation (which is where the big bux are). They also lost the Transformers license. These were body-blows to the company, and so they're reorganizing.

They're not going out of business yet, and they still have several licenses (including Trek), but they're seriously retrenching....

 

[Markonian]

Perhaps they might recover with more crossovers.

 

[Jedi Ben]

I hope they can.

They recently announced a fantasy series The Hunger and The Dusk by G Willow Wilson that sounds interesting.

 

[Therin of Andor]

"Making It So: A Memoir" by Sir Patrick Stewart by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[Avro Arrow]

"Making It So: A Memoir" by Sir Patrick Stewart by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Saw this gem on Twitter today!

 

[Eduardo]

Just a heads up, the Star Trek FCBD issue (prelude to Day of Blood) is available at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Pr...anga&sprefix=star+tr,comics-manga,296&sr=1-18

 

[Eduardo]

IDW for late August / early September
A new SNW comic!

Star Trek #11
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(W) Collin Kelly (A) Jackson Lanzing, Angel Unzueta (CA) Malachi Ward
"Day of Blood," Chapter Three! Only emissary Sisko and his crew of Starfleet's finest and disgraced ambassador Worf and his band of insurgents can save the universe. But they are divided in every sense of the word... In space, Lieutenants Paris and Torres fight over control of the Defiant while Spock and Scotty do everything they can to keep the Theseus from being cleaved in two. On the ground, Ro and Sela have given up hope, and siblings Data and Lore can't see eye to eye-all while their captains resist the urge to tear each other apart. Can they defeat Kahless and his Red Path when they cannot overcome their own differences?
In Shops: Aug 23, 2023

Star Trek Strange New Worlds: The Scorpius Run #1
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(W) Kirsten Beyer, Mike Johnson (A/CA) Angel Hernandez
Come back to Strange New Worlds with a never-before-seen adventure of the hit Paramount+ show! Set course with Captain Pike and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise to the Scorpius constellation! As they venture into the unknown, the Enterprise crew learn what it truly means to traverse through the strange and unfamiliar when they lose contact with Starfleet and find themselves trapped in unexplored space!
In Shops: Aug 23, 2023

Star Trek Defiant #7
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(W) Christopher Cantwell (A) Angel Unzueta (CA) Malachi Ward
"Day of Blood," Chapter Four. Thousands of years ago, Kahless the Unforgettable led his people to glory and raised an empire of honor. But his clone, Kahless II, has gone too far, murdering innocents in cold blood and hungering for power that can no longer be sated by Qo'noS and the Klingon people. He now stands alongside Alexander in front of Worf and Sisko, pitting father and son against each other and making a mockery of the Bajoran Prophets and their emissary. Meanwhile, the power of the Orb of Destruction surges from his ship above. Can Kahless be stopped, or will he once again prove to be the greatest warrior of them all? Find out in the penultimate chapter of the crossover between Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant!
In Shops: Sep 06, 2023

 

[GaryH]

Anyone know why all the UK retailers have the print copy of the new Discovery novel as July 6th? E.g.
https://forbiddenplanet.com/catalog/?q=Star Trek discovery somewhere &page=1
The ebook is still May 30th but I find it more relaxing to read novels in print version.

 

[James Swallow]

Anyone know why all the UK retailers have the print copy of the new Discovery novel as July 6th? E.g.
https://forbiddenplanet.com/catalog/?q=Star Trek discovery somewhere &page=1
The ebook is still May 30th but I find it more relaxing to read novels in print version.

This kind of delay isn't uncommon in the publishing industry when books are produced for North America as the primary market - like my last Splinter Cell novel Dragonfire, that was released at the end of January in the US, but didn't arrive in the UK until March.
But sometimes stuff slips through earlier, unofficially. Forbidden Planet sells stuff early quite frequently.

 

[GaryH]

Thanks. It is the first time I have seen it for a Trek novel though.

 

[Ronald Held]

Should I still expect the Ebook on the 30th?

 

[GaryH]

Should I still expect the Ebook on the 30th?

According to Amazon.co.Uk, yes.
Just not the print.

 

[JWolf]

Why are there no eBook edition of the Star Trek Prodigy books?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Why are there no eBook edition of the Star Trek Prodigy books?

Possibly due to the target audience? That kind of book is going to sell at bookstores and Scholastic book fairs to the intended audience, who may not have ebook readers.

 

[The Wormhole]

Are Scholastic book fairs still a thing? Damn, that sure takes me back...

 

[Christopher]

Are Scholastic book fairs still a thing? Damn, that sure takes me back...

I got my first two Trek books at one of those in first grade -- The Making of Star Trek and that book of punch-out cardboard toys. (Or at least two of my first three -- I'm not sure of the timing.)

 

[Greg Cox]

Are Scholastic book fairs still a thing? Damn, that sure takes me back...

I believe so. Saw a local elementary school advertising one recently.

I picked up a lot of GET SMART tie-ins at them back in the day.

 

[Oz Trekkie]

Am I correct in saying that after the release of Somewhere To Belong next week there are no new novels scheduled to be released apart from The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko?

 

[ryan123450]

That’s my understanding as well. Pretty sad situation.

 

[Tosk]

...and not strictly a book, but hopefully we might get some sign of the audiobook of A Stitch in Time this year? WIshful thinking perhaps, but it's all I've got right now.