Upcoming Publications: May-July 2010

[Scout101]

crap, that's worse than I thought. Is this barren period the result of the mass firing they did at Pocket, and just took a while to get the new people up and going again? 4-5 months seems like a pretty long time out of a 12-month schedule to just be throwing up reprints and hoping no one notices. Happens where you don't make a month here or there, but they'd been good about doubling up later to catch up again. This is a pretty long stretch without new material, which can't be great in a shitty economy. Can't speak to sales, but I'd THINK that summer would be their biggest sales period as well, with beach reading, vacations, kids off from school, etc.

Excited by the stuff at the end of the year, and the early look at next year, but sucks taking an unwanted Trek hiatus for 5 months...

 

[Christopher]

crap, that's worse than I thought. Is this barren period the result of the mass firing they did at Pocket, and just took a while to get the new people up and going again?

No, it had nothing to do with that. There were going to be four novels set in the new movie's timeline. Those novels were written and edited as normal. But very late in the game, the film producers decided they didn't want sequel novels to the movie, only prequels. So those four books had to be indefinitely shelved, and at that point it was too late to commission new books to replace them. Pocket was forced to fill in part of the gap with reprints and leave the rest unfilled.

 

[Therin of Andor]

This is a pretty long stretch without new material, which can't be great in a shitty economy... but sucks taking an unwanted Trek hiatus for 5 months...

And yet the CoE eBooks were dropped due to sales being way too small, so these titles, in two new trade omnibus collections, should be brand new to most ST readers.

 

[RandyS]

crap, that's worse than I thought. Is this barren period the result of the mass firing they did at Pocket, and just took a while to get the new people up and going again? 4-5 months seems like a pretty long time out of a 12-month schedule to just be throwing up reprints and hoping no one notices. Happens where you don't make a month here or there, but they'd been good about doubling up later to catch up again. This is a pretty long stretch without new material, which can't be great in a shitty economy. Can't speak to sales, but I'd THINK that summer would be their biggest sales period as well, with beach reading, vacations, kids off from school, etc.

Excited by the stuff at the end of the year, and the early look at next year, but sucks taking an unwanted Trek hiatus for 5 months...

If you think this is bad, you should have been around in the early to mid 1980's. We typically got two books a year back then. Three if we were lucky.

 

[Steve Roby]

There are still some of us who remember the 1970s as the time of the great Trek drought.

 

[AdmiralSteven]

Fair enough, and I didn't mean to patronize. Given the breadth of TrekLit over the years, it's I think a reasonable assumption that one hasn't read all of them. I just picked this up a couple years ago, I've read over 170, and I'm not anywhere close to all of the books that sound interesting to me, much less all of them period.

Wow, 170?! That's a lot of books. I've only started reading seriously (and by seriously I mean everyday) about 5 years ago, and I just started reading the Star Trek books about year to a year and a half ago. The one, ok, two, reasons I love reading Star Trek is that 1) there is so much out there and 2) I love Star Trek. With all the Star Trek books out there I'm going to have plenty to read for years to come.