Myriad Universe Excerpt in Star Trek Manga

[William Leisner]

Just to toot my own horn a bit: Marco has let me know that an excerpt of A Less Perfect Union, my novel in the Myraid Universes: Infinity's Prism collection, will be printed in Star Trek: The Manga Volume 3 due out in July. This will be an extended version of excerpt appearing in the next issue of Star Trek Magazine.

If all this promotion doesn't translate into book sales, I imagine Christopher and James will be quite upset with me...

 

[Dayton Ward]

Nice! Go you!

 

[8of5]

Coolies, I was wondering what might happen there with no short story anthology to supply a little story to for the manga book (like the previous volumes)

Do you know if that means there will be a manga story in Infinity's Prism?

 

[JD]

Cool, this alone is almost enough to make me consider picking up the manga.

 

[William Leisner]

Do you know if that means there will be a manga story in Infinity's Prism?

I didn't ask the question, but my understanding is that, yes, the cross-promotion will go both ways.

 

[JoeZhang]

is there much overlap in the audiences? (manga readers and book readers)?

 

[ATimson]

is there much overlap in the audiences? (manga readers and book readers)?

If there really was, I don't think cross-promotion would do much good.

 

[Scott Pearson]

Just to toot my own horn a bit: Marco has let me know that an excerpt of A Less Perfect Union, my novel in the Myraid Universes: Infinity's Prism collection, will be printed in Star Trek: The Manga Volume 3 due out in July. This will be an extended version of excerpt appearing in the next issue of Star Trek Magazine.

If all this promotion doesn't translate into book sales, I imagine Christopher and James will be quite upset with me...

Aces, man. Congrats.

 

[Sxottlan]

I didn't even know Volume 2 had already come out.

 

[KRAD]

^ Really? Your sig indicates that you've read The Sky's the Limit, and that had an excerpt from Volume 2 in it. It had stories by (among others) Wil Wheaton and Diane Duane.

 

[Sxottlan]

^ Really? Your sig indicates that you've read The Sky's the Limit, and that had an excerpt from Volume 2 in it.

Ah. Did not even look at the excerpt.

Still have Volume 1 in my to-read pile.

 

[Trent Roman]

Curiously enough, I just picked up Sky's the Limit this week and entirely failed to notice there was a cartoon at the back. It's off-topic, however: TOS comic in a TNG book. Never could get into manga/anime; still, guess I might as well give one more try, seeing as how I already bought the thing.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Christopher]

Well, some of the stories in the second TokyoPop volume are less manga-ish than others. Heck, they're all written by Westerners, and the majority are illustrated by Westerners, albeit most of them emulate a manga design style. But the Diane Duane/Don Hudson story doesn't even do that; it's a Trek comic that could've just as easily been done by DC or Marvel or IDW, except for being black-and-white and digest-sized.