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Hopefully this adaptation of The Killing Joke will go better than the movie did.
Cool, I've got the Court of Owls issues of Batman on my Comixology account, so I'll have to make sure to pick up the novelization after I read them.
 
JD said:
Hopefully this adaptation of The Killing Joke will go better than the movie did.
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It could have potential if it gave Barbara real agency in the story, if it explored what happened to her from her own perspective and showed her process of coping with it, rather than just making her a prop in a story unconnected to her own life.

Still, I'm not sure it's such a good idea to adapt the story again at all, given how problematical it is.
 
The fact that it's co-written by a woman does make me hopeful that it can give us a more meaningful look at Barbara's role in the story.
 
The IAMTW has announced the nominees of this years Scribe Awards on Facebook, and there are a couple of Trek writers on the ballot:

David Mack ( @David Mack ) for Star Trek Discovery: Desperate Hours (Original Speculative)
Keith R.A. DeCandido ( @KRAD ) for "Ganbatte" (Short Story) and Warriors Three: Godhood’s End (YA Original)
John Jackson Miller ( @JJMiller ) for “Murderers’ Row” (Short Story)
Christie Golden for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Adapted Speculative and General) and Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad (Original Speculative)
Greg Cox ( @Greg Cox ) for The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase (Original Speculative)

Congratulations to all nominees! :)

Full post by IAMTW:

The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers is pleased to announce the 2018 Scribe Award Nominees for excellence in tie-in fiction:

Short Story
"Banana Republic" by Jonathan Maberry
“Ganbatte” by Keith DeCandido
“Murderers’ Row” by John Jackson Miller
“Pacing Place” by Bob Mayer
"Rear Guard” by Sarah Stegall
“Storm Blood” by Peter Wacks and David Boop

Adapted Speculative and General
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet by James Goss
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter by Tim Waggoner
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets by Christie Golden
Kong Skull Island by Tim Lebbon

Original Speculative
The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase by Greg Cox
Solar Singularity by Peter J. Wacks, Guy Anthony De Marco, and Josh Voight
Halo: Legacy of Onyx by Matt Forbeck
Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad by Christie Golden
Star Trek Discovery: Desperate Hours by David Mack
Supernatural: The Usual Sacrifices by Yvonne Navarro

Original General
Don Pendleton’s The Executioner Fatal Prescription by Michael A. Black
The Will to Kill by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins
Robert B. Parker’s The Hangman’s Sonnet A Jesse Stone Novel by Reed Farrel Coleman

YA Original
Star Wars Adventures in Wild Space – The Cold by Cavan Scott
Warriors Three: Godhood’s End by Keith R. A. DeCandido
X-Files Origins: Devil’s Advocate by Jonathan Maberry

Audio
Doctor Who: Across the Darkened City by David Bartlett
Doctor Who: Cold Vengeance by Matt Fitton
Warhammer 40,000: Agent of the Throne, Blood and Lies by John French
Torchwood: Cascade by Scott Handcock
Torchwood: The Dying Room by Lizzie Hopley

The winners will be announced at a special ceremony at ComiCon in San Diego.
 
What franchise in Ganbette from? That's the only one I'm not familiar with on that list.
 
Defcon said:
The IAMTW has announced the nominees of this years Scribe Awards on Facebook, and there are a couple of Trek writers on the ballot:

David Mack ( @David Mack ) for Star Trek Discovery: Desperate Hours (Original Speculative)
Keith R.A. DeCandido ( @KRAD ) for "Ganbatte" (Short Story) and Warriors Three: Godhood’s End (YA Original)
John Jackson Miller ( @JJMiller ) for “Murderers’ Row” (Short Story)
Christie Golden for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Adapted Speculative and General) and Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad (Original Speculative)
Greg Cox ( @Greg Cox ) for The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase (Original Speculative)

Congratulations to all nominees! :)

Full post by IAMTW:

The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers is pleased to announce the 2018 Scribe Award Nominees for excellence in tie-in fiction:

Short Story
"Banana Republic" by Jonathan Maberry
“Ganbatte” by Keith DeCandido
“Murderers’ Row” by John Jackson Miller
“Pacing Place” by Bob Mayer
"Rear Guard” by Sarah Stegall
“Storm Blood” by Peter Wacks and David Boop

Adapted Speculative and General
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet by James Goss
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter by Tim Waggoner
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets by Christie Golden
Kong Skull Island by Tim Lebbon

Original Speculative
The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase by Greg Cox
Solar Singularity by Peter J. Wacks, Guy Anthony De Marco, and Josh Voight
Halo: Legacy of Onyx by Matt Forbeck
Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad by Christie Golden
Star Trek Discovery: Desperate Hours by David Mack
Supernatural: The Usual Sacrifices by Yvonne Navarro

Original General
Don Pendleton’s The Executioner Fatal Prescription by Michael A. Black
The Will to Kill by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins
Robert B. Parker’s The Hangman’s Sonnet A Jesse Stone Novel by Reed Farrel Coleman

YA Original
Star Wars Adventures in Wild Space – The Cold by Cavan Scott
Warriors Three: Godhood’s End by Keith R. A. DeCandido
X-Files Origins: Devil’s Advocate by Jonathan Maberry

Audio
Doctor Who: Across the Darkened City by David Bartlett
Doctor Who: Cold Vengeance by Matt Fitton
Warhammer 40,000: Agent of the Throne, Blood and Lies by John French
Torchwood: Cascade by Scott Handcock
Torchwood: The Dying Room by Lizzie Hopley

The winners will be announced at a special ceremony at ComiCon in San Diego.
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@Greg Cox has been announced as the recipient of the IAMTW Grandmaster award (which is pretty much their version of a lifetime achievement award).

Congratulations, Greg. :)
 
Thanks! As I posted elsewhere:


I'm stunned, honored, and grateful to find out that my friends and colleagues at the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers have granted me this year's Life Achievement Award.

As someone who grew up reading tie-books and novelizations, and who has been writing and editing them for decades now, this is a huge thrill. And I'm proud to be in the company of all the past Grandmasters.

Thanks so much to everyone involved!
 
BBC Books Announce New Thirteenth Doctor Fiction!

New work by Naomi Alderman and Juno Dawson are amongst some of the 2018 offerings for the Doctor Who list, publishing to celebrate the debut of Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor this autumn.

Penguin Random House Children’s imprint BBC Children’s Books today announces its acquisition of a brand-new Doctor Who short story from Naomi Alderman, author of The Powerand winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017. Ruth Knowles and Tom Rawlinson of Penguin Random House Children’s acquired World Rights to the story from Veronique Baxter. Alderman’s tale features Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor battling to save the universe alongside her close and trusted friends.

The story will add to the existing 12 Doctors, 12 Stories anthology, which recounts tales for each of the previous twelve Doctors as they adventure through time and space. The new collection will publish on 1 November 2018 as Thirteen Doctors, 13 Stories, and will also include existing stories by Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott, Marcus Sedgwick, Philip Reeve, Patrick Ness, Richelle Mead, Malorie Blackman, Alex Scarrow, Charlie Higson, Derek Landy, Neil Gaiman and Holly Black.

Thirteen Doctors, 13 Stories marks Alderman’s return to the Doctor Who universe, after her 2011 novel, Borrowed Time, published by BBC Books. On 19 July, to celebrate the opening of this year’s San Diego ComicCon, BBC Books will reissue a new paperback edition of this novel, along with a new edition of collected Doctor Who stories by Jenny T. Colgan, The Triple Knife. Both will have new cover designs by artist David Wardle.

Multi-award winning author and activist Juno Dawson’s novel will mark her debut on the Doctor Who list. Entitled The Good Doctor, it will be one of the first novels on the BBC Books list to feature the Thirteenth Doctor, as played by Jodie Whittaker, and her friends Yasmin, Ryan and Graham. The book will publish in October along with two other Thirteenth Doctor adventures, The Molten Heart, by New York Times bestselling author Una McCormack and Combat Magicks, by bestselling Young Bond author Steve Cole.

Naomi Alderman says “I’m thrilled beyond words to be writing the first short story for the Thirteenth Doctor. Believe it or not, my first ever rejection letter, dated 1992, was from Doctor Who Magazine for a story I wrote as a teenager obsessed with the Doctor; I’ve loved Doctor Whosince I was a child, so it’s particularly meaningful and exciting for me to be adding my name to this anthology.”

Juno Dawson says “My earliest memory is Bonnie Langford being spun off into space in a killer bubble in 1987, so you can only imagine how excited I was when I was asked to write for the Doctor Who range. And, as a Bradford girl, it’s an even bigger thrill to be among the first writers in the world to write for Jodie Whittaker, the first Doctor from Yorkshire. This feels like a bold new era for Doctor Who and I’m beyond delighted to be a part of it. This is a dream come true.”

Ruth Knowles, Publisher at Penguin Random House Children’s, says “Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor deserves ground-breaking writing from a ground-breaking author, and we are thrilled to have someone so perfect in Naomi to bring the first female Doctor to the page. She has stunned the world with her characters, writing and ideas, and as a huge Doctor Who fan (and previous Doctor Who book writer) she was our first choice to write the Thirteenth Doctor story for this collection. This story will be, we are sure, brilliant, and the prefect addition to this stellar collection by the very best of authors.”

Albert DePetrillo, BBC Books Publishing Director, says “The excitement that’s building around the new series of Doctor Who is remarkable, and Jodie Whittaker is helping usher in a whole new era of vibrant, inclusive storytelling. We’re thrilled to be a part of that with our publishing, and authors like Naomi and Juno, Jenny, Una and Steve are the perfect ambassadors for this next chapter in the Doctor Who story. We can’t wait for them to introduce a whole new generation of fans to the wonders of the Whoniverse.”

❉ Thirteen Doctors, 13 Stories will publish on 1 November in paperback, priced £12.99 (BBC Children’s Books acquired world rights)

❉ Borrowed Time and The Triple Knife will publish on 19 July in paperback and ebook, priced £7.99 (BBC Books acquired world rights)

❉
The Good Doctor
, The Molten Heart, and Combat Magicks will publish on 25 October in b-format hardback, priced £6.99 (BBC Books acquired world rights
)
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http://wearecult.rocks/bbc-books-announce-new-thirteenth-doctor-fiction
 
From a recent Facebook post it seems one is a tie-in to a game, beyond that I don't think so.
 
What we need is more War Doctor stories. Especially in his early days where he was a proper soldier who used guns and leaded a team.
 
thribs said:
What we need is more War Doctor stories. Especially in his early days where he was a proper soldier who used guns and leaded a team.
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Um... do we know that ever happened?

Anyway, in addition to the one official novel, there’s a series of Big Finish licenced audios starring John Hurt, and the second of the unauthorized, done for charity Seasons of War books is out now. More to come, but probably as ebooks only.
 
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I assume so. He’s called the War Doctor for a reason. Those Big Finish audios are fine but he’s just like the Doctor in them. There’s nothing different about him at all, except being a tad depressed.
 
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