Pale Blue Dot - This is the title they stuck on the contract for my next tie-in novel project, pending my coming up with something better. I signed those contracts back in January and I received back a copy of the executed agreement and the first portion of my advance, so I suppose it’s safe to say at this point that it will be a
Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, set after the events of
The Fall. Basically, everything I set up at the end of
Peaceable Kingdoms to give the next writer in line something of a clean slate? Yeah, that “next writer” turned out to be me. If I’d known this while writing that book, I’d have set things up differently, with Picard and Chen going off to open a private detective agency on Wrigley’s Pleasure Planet, or something. As it happens, the
Enterprise-E is now heading out into “the unknown” for some good old-fashioned seeking out of new life and new civilizations and whatnot. Live and learn, I guess. Anyway, my outline for this thing is due to my editor on or about March 17th, with a projected manuscript delivery around Labor Day, and publication at some point in mid 2015 or so. Once I figure out what the book will be about, I’ll let you know.
from Dayton's monthly writing wrap-up on his blog:
