I gues Markus Rhode needs some time for an answer. As long people at CC are preoccupied with releasing our beloved books I'm fine with it.
I don't speak German, but when I realised that Janos, Andorians, Arex and M'Ress made it onto new cover art, I simply had to own them! Cross Cult New Frontier by Ian McLean, on Flickr Cross Cult New Frontier anthology, Grenzenlos by Ian McLean, on Flickr Cross Cult Andorians by Ian McLean, on Flickr And featuring the Tuckerized Andorian warship, IGW Shantherin th'Clane, on the cover of "Gefallene Gotter" ("Fallen Gods").
Officially announced for 2019 are 9 books: Januar 2019 Star Trek - Voyager, Band 12 (Taschenbuch & E-Book) » Kleine Lügen erhalten die Feindschaft I - von Kirsten Beyer Februar 2019 Star Trek - Rise of the Federation, Band 4 (Taschenbuch & E-Book & Hörbuch) » Prinzipientreue - von Christopher L. Bennett März 2019 Star Trek - Voyager, Band 13 (Taschenbuch & E-Book) » Kleine Lügen erhalten die Feindschaft II - von Kirsten Beyer April 2019 Star Trek - New Frontier, Band 17 (Taschenbuch & E-Book) » Mörderisches Spiel - von Peter David Mai 2019 Star Trek - The Next Generation, Band 14 (Taschenbuch & E-Book) » Absturz - von Dayton Ward August 2019 Star Trek - Deep Space Nine (Taschenbuch & E-Book) » Lichter im Dunkel - von David R. George III September 2019 Star Trek (Taschenbuch & E-Book) » Sektion 31 - Kontrolle - von David Mack November 2019 Star Trek - Rise of the Federation, Band 5 (Taschenbuch & E-Book) (geplant) Störungsmuster - von Christopher L. Bennett Dezember 2019 Star Trek - The Next Generation, Band 15 (Taschenbuch & E-Book) (geplant) [Hearts and minds] - von Dayton Ward Additionally, 5 books are listed as "planned", with no official release date: "3 Captains, 3 Geschichten" Including the ebooks: Next Generation James Swallow Der Stoff, aus dem die Träume sind The Original Series 9 Greg Cox Miasma Titan John Jackson Miller Abwesende Feinde Corps of Engineers Sammelband 5: Fundamente Including the ebook-Episodes 17-19: Fundamente 1 / Fundamente 2 / Fundamente 3 Voyager Band 14: [Architects of Infinity] Seekers Band 3: [Long Shot] Seekers Band 4: [All That's Left] (Cross Cult already said, the next two Seekers book won't come anytime soon, because the first two sold very bad)
3 Captains, 3 Geschichten is now planned for October 2019! I'm wondering if June and July will remain without publication......
Seems like we're finally getting printed versions of SCE: Foundations and the following five eBooks! Covers:
Oh, wow, great. Cross Cult obviously uses all the ebooks, they already have translated, to print more "real" books. Really great, so I will finally also get these stories. And I think, that's a cheap way for Cross Cult, to produce more books, since they already have payed for the rights to these stories.
Enigma Tales is most likely released in Germany next year. The new cover can be seen in the Picture the Novelverse thread. I'm excited!
http://www.startrekromane.de/termine/2020.html Enigma Tales and Architects of Infinity are now listed for 2020.... Obviously they split Architects of Infinity into two books like Kleine Lügen...
Cross Cult has announced a few more novels, among them the Picard-series-prequel-story, and Discovery's The Enterprise War. The full list for the next months: Aug 19 Star Trek – Deep Space Nine Lichter im Dunkel David R. George III The Long Mirage Sep 19 Star Trek – Sektion 31 Kontrolle David Mack Control Okt 19 Star Trek – Sammelband 3 Captains, 3 Geschichten Greg Cox/James Swallow/John Jackson Miller Miasma/The Stuff of Dreams/Absent Enemies Nov 19 Star Trek – Rise of the Federation Interferenz Christopher L. Bennett Patterns of Interference Dez 19 Star Trek – Discovery Der Enterprise-Krieg John Jackson Miller The Enterprise War Dez 19 Star Trek – Next Generation Herz und Verstand Dayton Ward Hearts and Minds Feb 20 Star Trek – Voyager Architekten der Unendlichkeit I Kirsten Beyer Architects of Infinity (1) Feb 20 Star Trek – Picard [The Last Best Hope] Una McCormack The Last Best Hope Mrz 20 Star Trek – Deep Space Nine Mysterien Una McCormack Enigma Tales
Cross Cult has reduced it's program - we simply have to buy more books! I'm curious about their program for 2020, though. The focus will be on Discovery and Picard.... I hope they will translate Collateral Damage by David Mack.....
Not really much reduced. These are the yearly numbers of Cross Cult Star Trek Novels: 2008 4 2009 8 2010 13 2011 16 2012 20 2013 17 + 1 ebook 2014 13 + 7 ebooks 2015 16 + 11 ebooks 2016 15 + 14 ebooks 2017 13 + 1 ebook 2018 12 2019 11 (announced yet) 2020 3 (annonced yet) Certainly there are not as many books as in 2012, but they are not really reducing it very much each year. The biggest difference is, that there are no monthly ebooks, like a few years ago, especially Corps of Engineers. And one book every year is a reprint of these ebooks (CoE until 2018. 3 short stories in 2019).
Also, the Voyager novels get split into two parts. So as far as new stuff goes we got 9 novels this year, one of which The Enterprise-War was a last-minute type of addition, because Discovery novels didn't sell at all in Germany and Cross Cult discontinued the line. So, I think assuming 8 regular new books for next year is reasonable.
Now Markus Rohde of Cross Cult has announced in their forum that they are planning to translate Titan - Fortunes of War. Someone has been hired for translation already.....