The comic book business is shady enough that you had a lot of talents leave Marvel back in the 90s and start their own thing.
They already did audiobooks of all 32 a decade or so ago, all read by Kathryn Leigh Scott. I bought them all on mp3 CD.
I’ve listened to the beginning of the first one, so I have a bunch of listening there for my retirement years. LOL!
I remembered after my other post that I do still have access to several digital comics that have gone out of print after the publisher lost the license, like the Star Trek/Doctor Who crossover. So if the novels work the same way, we should at least get to keep the ones we've already bought.
And is that a bad thing?
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I've said this before, and I'll say it again: the only way any of my own writings will ever be issued as e-books will be as free-(as-in-beer)-for-the-asking, freely redistributable (but protected against modification) PDFs.
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But to drag this back on-topic, when's the next ST novel coming out? And what, and whose? Looking for something to jump into after I finish The Robe and GC's new anthology (which will hopefully arrive soon), and The Ultimate Quest, by recent Jeopardy! contestant, The Rev'd Jordan Ware, which is supposed to arrive tomorrow.
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Dayton Ward’s To Defy Fate should be out by the end of the month. I would guess we see some showing up in the wild in a few days.
Should I assume no more 2026 novels will be announced?
A mere three and a half weeks ago, in response to this:
David Mack replied this:
Since AFAIK there has been no announcement in those three and a half weeks, I probably wouldn't give up hope yet.
At the time, I think I was referring to the rescheduled release of Una McCormack’s novel The Peacekeepers, which was moved into November.
Oops, my apologies. I wasn't intending to spread misinformation. Sorry about that.
@Ronald Held : Nevermind, then.
I realize it's still kind of early, but any ideas when we might see what the cover looks like? I'm sure I'm not the only one whose eager to see what it's going to look like. The fact that you're quite pleased with the choice of artist is really big plus.
I’m honestly not sure. Soon, I hope, but I would rather wait a little bit longer than usual and give this person time to do their best work. But believe me, as soon as I am authorized to share news/cover images, I will. :-)
Perfect for a stocking stuffer.
A query, the raised licensing fee on the Star Trek IP has seen Resurgence pulled from storefronts because renewal is just too expensive for a small studio with only one game, does this impact literature too? Or is it a different form of licensing?
Reminds me of the Quotable Star Trek by Jill Sherwin
I believe it was said earlier in the thread that the current license with S&S still has another year or two left to run. After that, who knows? Paramount just announced they were starting up their own publishing imprint, so at this point it's an open question whether the license ends up getting renewed with S&S, or they bring it in-house.
I don't think I've read anything about when the IDW license expires.
Contracts expire and get renewed all the time. It's normal for, say, actors' contracts on a long-running series to expire after 5 or 6 years and have to be renegotiated, and presumably the same goes for writers, producers, and everyone else. Yes, sometimes the renewal negotiations don't work out, which is why Terry Farrell left Deep Space Nine, say, but usually they succeed and the contract is renewed, which is why the other 8 regulars didn't leave the show. That's a normal part of the business. The expiration of a contract isn't some definitive, irreversible ending. It's just an opportunity to renegotiate terms and payments and such in the next contract. So there's no reason why they wouldn't start a new show with 2 years left on the current contract.
I expect the only reason they aren't going ahead with new projects now is probably because all the Paramount merger drama has delayed contract renewals until things settle down. Perhaps the lawyers are too busy handling the paperwork of the merger, so that the paperwork for contract renewals will have to wait its turn, and new series plans can't proceed until that gets done.
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