KRAD interviewed at TrekToday

[Trent Roman]

For those who don't glance to the right side of the screen very often, TrekToday ran an interview with KRAD about his work, the S.C.E., and upcoming projects Trek and otherwise. Linky: http://www.trektoday.com/news/300408_02.shtml. Most of it is information we knew already, I believe, phrased differently. My favourite part of the interview was actually a typo: according to the article, one of the upcoming MyrU anthology will be titled Echoes and Retractions.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[William Leisner]

My favourite part of the interview was actually a typo: according to the article, one of the upcoming MyrU anthology will be titled Echoes and Retractions.

There's another typo in the paragraph after that, too...

 

[Elemental]

Very interesting interview! I had NO IDEA SCE/COE had been discontinued!! Has the final e-book for it already been released? KRAD, was there at least an opportunity to bring it to a fitting end?

 

[KRAD]

^ The last COE story was Remembrance of Things Past Book 2 by Terri Osborne, and she was aware that it would be the last one, and, if we had to go out, it was a good story to go out on. It meant the series ended as it started with a TNG crossover, it had a story that involved most of the cast, we got some good development of Abramowitz, Sarjenka, and Gomez in particular, there was a cool technical problem, and in the end the da Vinci went off to its next mission. That last in particular was important to me.

 

[greenmystik]

Damn, that really bums me out. SCE/COE was one of my favorite series. How many print compilations are left?

 

[KRAD]

Damn, that really bums me out.

Me, too.

SCE/COE was one of my favorite series. How many print compilations are left?

Wounds will be published in October of this year. It will include:

• Malefictorum by Terri Osborne
  Lost Time by Ilsa J. Bick
  Identity Crisis by John J. Ordover
  Fables of the Prime Directive by Cory Rushton
  Security by Keith R.A. DeCandido
  Wounds by Ilsa J. Bick

After that, there are still 18 eBooks still left to reprint, which will likely be spread over four trade paperbacks, tentatively entitled The Cleanup, What's Past, Turn the Page, and Remembrance of Things Past.

 

[JD]

This gives me an oportunity to ask you something I've been wondering for a while, KRAD. Is there any specific method that you use when decide which story's title to use for the collections, is it the most important one?

 

[KRAD]

^ It's mostly a case of which title in the collection best reflects the entire collection.

The only case where the title was chosen because the eponymous story was "important" would be Wildfire.

 

[JD]

Cool, thanks for the info.

 

[Stevil2001]

Is there a reason the first two volume had original titles, then? (Admittedly, I think both phrases were used pretty heavily in the promotion of the series. Though I always found "have tech, will travel" a pretty goofy expression.)

 

[KRAD]

^ Somebody else made that decision. I wasn't as directly involved with the putting together of the first two volumes -- I proofread them, and wrote the minipedia for Miracle Workers, but the cover concepts and designs and the rest of it was done by the in-house editor. From Volume 3 on, I became more directly involved.

 

[Sci]

I, too, hadn't realized that Corps of Engineers ended. I just want to know one thing.... Did Corsi and Stevens ever become a proper couple? (I'm afraid I haven't read much of anything past Wildfire in the series...)

 

[Stevil2001]

^ Somebody else made that decision. I wasn't as directly involved with the putting together of the first two volumes -- I proofread them, and wrote the minipedia for Miracle Workers, but the cover concepts and designs and the rest of it was done by the in-house editor. From Volume 3 on, I became more directly involved.

Ah, I hadn't realized that. Interesting.

 

[KRAD]

I, too, hadn't realized that Corps of Engineers ended. I just want to know one thing.... Did Corsi and Stevens ever become a proper couple? (I'm afraid I haven't read much of anything past Wildfire in the series...)

I'm rather reluctant to answer that question, since it's a plot thread that continues all the way through to the end of the series, and in fact a major turning point in the characters' relationship happens in the print compilation that's coming out in October.

If someone else wants to answer, that's fine, but I'd rather you read the stories and found out for yourself.