Strange New Worlds 2016 available for pre-order

[Bibliomike]

The upcoming SNW e-anthology is now available for pre-order at Amazon, to be released in early October - www.amazon.com/Strange-Worlds-2016-Star-Trek-ebook/dp/B01JGQAHIS/ref=sr_1_6?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1470151438&sr=1-6&keywords=star+trek+strange+new+worlds.
I've ordered mine! Looking forward to seeing what this volume's winners have come up with.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Only a Kindle version is listed. This might have been covered elsewhere, but is this one ebook-exclusive?

 

[Bibliomike]

Well, the contest rules called it "digital first." My hunch is it will be digital only, unless the ebook sells like the proverbial hotcakes. So, if you want to support new, original, professional Star Trek short fiction (beyond the excellent e-novellas), vote with your quatloos.

 

[Avro Arrow]

No worries, I have no problems with ebook exclusives!

(But do hotcakes really sell *that* well, anyway?)

 

[Christopher]

(But do hotcakes really sell *that* well, anyway?)

http://grammarist.com/words/selling-like-hotcakes/

Apparently it's more to do with the fact that hotcakes (i.e. pancakes) tend to be sold as soon as they're made, so it refers to a product being in sufficient demand that it gets sold immediately.

 

[trampledamage]

I know I always love buying pastries fresh from the oven at the local bakery...


Not that this has anything to do with the new pre-order for SNW except perhaps a subliminal attempt by Bibliomike to get us all to think of SNW when we get hungry for an apple turnover...

 

[Bibliomike]

I know I always love buying pastries fresh from the oven at the local bakery...


Not that this has anything to do with the new pre-order for SNW except perhaps a subliminal attempt by Bibliomike to get us all to think of SNW when we get hungry for an apple turnover...

Yes, everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.... Whoops, wrong franchise.

 

[Bibliomike]

http://grammarist.com/words/selling-like-hotcakes/

Apparently it's more to do with the fact that hotcakes (i.e. pancakes) tend to be sold as soon as they're made, so it refers to a product being in sufficient demand that it gets sold immediately.

I did not know that. Or had forgotten. Thanks!

 

[Stevil2001]

This is now out!

http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Strange-New-Worlds-2016/Various/Star-Trek/9781501161582

 

[Jinn]

I'm just bought it, mainly to support the SNW series, as I really like the idea and I really want to see if there are some stories set on the relaunch era. Also this is the first time I ever purchaseda SNW anthology.

Edit: Wait, the title says "Strange New Worlds 2016", could this hint at new annual releases? Though that would seem strange, as they don't really know how it will perform saleswise before release. Maybe they were just being positive or wanted to indicate they year.

 

[Bibliomike]

I wouldn't read too much into the title. It's probably just to differentiate it from the previous series. There's no announcement of a new contest in the book - and no introduction describing the scope of the contest, and no contributor bios, and no editor even named anywhere.

 

[Jinn]

According to simonandschuster.com I can become a van of "Various"...

 

[F. King Daniel]

Someone needs to invite Various to start posting at TrekBBS with all the other authors.

 

[Jinn]

Someone needs to invite Various to start posting at TrekBBS with all the other authors.

I would totally create a "Various" account, if it weren't against the rules, just for fun. Also I now have read my first SNW short story, which is the first VGR story in Strange New Worlds 2016 (Are we going to call it SNW16 SNW2016 or SNW11?) and I really enjoyed it.

Wait, let me try something. @Various

Nothing? Okay...

 

[Csalem]

I'm just bought it, mainly to support the SNW series, as I really like the idea and I really want to see if there are some stories set on the relaunch era. Also this is the first time I ever purchaseda SNW anthology.

Edit: Wait, the title says "Strange New Worlds 2016", could this hint at new annual releases? Though that would seem strange, as they don't really know how it will perform saleswise before release. Maybe they were just being positive or wanted to indicate they year.

I didn't see them listed on Amazon so did the two First Prize winners, Kerry F. Booth and James Corrigan, get in the book?

 

[Bibliomike]

No, they didn't. So I hope they had a non-Trek manuscript ready to go, and didn't have their hearts set on getting a Star Trek story published.

 

[Csalem]

As I said when the winners were announced, what an odd competition. The two people who wrote the best stories don't appear in the book.

 

[Jinn]

That is indeed very weird. Is there any chance that they publish their stories somewhere online, or that they'll be available as single stories like The Aliens Are Coming!

 

[JD]

It does see weird that the First Prize in a Trek short story anthology contest doesn't involve getting a story in the anthology. I remember something about getting a non-Trek story published through some other part of Simon & Schuster, was that the First Prize?

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Hmm. "Grand Prize": a $1000 advance (presumably cash), and publication in the anthology (with perhaps more royalties to follow?)
vs. "First Prize": a "publishing package" from S&S's "Archway" self-publishing division worth $5k.

Sounds to me like "First Prize" is the new "Honorable Mention."

(Uh, the last time I checked, real self-publication involved hiring a printer and a bookbinder, and supplying camera-ready copy or a print-optimized PDF. Or in extreme cases, doing what the lead docent at the International Printing Museum did, i.e., banging out his uncle's manuscript on a Linotype, locking up hundreds of type formes, hanging them on a Miehle Vertical, running them off, and shipping large cartons of pages off to a bindery. Archway sounds like a subsidy division, barely a step above a vanity house.)

Which is to say that if and when my own novel is ready to see the light of day, I will physically print it myself (albeit probably on one of the Museum's offset presses) before I go to a subsidy house, even one like Archway, that's owned by a royalty house.