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I just got the Spider’s Web audiobook files broken down into chunks (to make it easier for people to find where they left off) and in the correct format. Now, it’s just a matter of a few approvals and then we’ll make it available for purchase.
Mateo
That’s great news… looking forward to it. :cheer:
Can you give us an update on the Year One Omnibus as well? Where is it in the process? :S
Much as I love a good audio book, and I’m sure this will be no exception, for me nothing beats sitting down with a ‘real’ book for a good read. B) Audio books are something I reserve for listening to whilst doing something horrible or boring and it makes it more bearable.
Even though I am looking forward to this release with my usual enthusiasm for anything 1999 realated I just want a new book to read… :angry: Please? 😆Sure, of course you do realize that a Space: 1999 book takes at least a year to go from initial idea to finished novel? That’s why there’s always something in the works. Some take longer than others. It’s all about staggering the commissions. And I made a decision at the start NOT to publish a huge amount of books (ie, forgettable stand-alones that don’t add to the characters or the mythos), but rather concentrate only on the stories I wanted to add to the 1999 universe. In short, I’ve rejected more pitches than I’ve commissioned.
The problem is Mateo, it takes me about 2 days to read a book once I have it… Pity those authors and publishing houses couldn’t produce them as fast. 😛
At least you know that as long as we are asking about the next book you are doing something right. There is nothing so sweet as a captive audience. :laugh:We are aware of it and are eternally grateful. 🙂
Consider our books akin to Harry Potter, except without the billion dollar paychecks. We’ve been publishing 1999 books for 9 years and have published 9 books and a few other things as well.
Maybe we should incorporate a Hogworts School of Eagle Piloting–it could be a young adult series about how poor, orphaned Alan Carter was invited to join the school and so to become one day a Wizard–scratch that–an Eagle pilot!
He’d soon befriend two other students, Bill and Annette. They’d have adventures, outwitting the Evil Professor Simmonds and his henchman, Gorski…
I am JUST KIDDING folks!
Mateo
There was talk of a Space 1999 spin-off series, maybe this could be it… hmmm maybe not. :laugh:
Imagine asking Nick Tate to write to foreword to that one. :S :blush:
We’ve now succeeded in licensing the Space: 1999 Year One Main and End Title themes for use on Spider’s Web. We are now ready to move ahead with this release! It will be released as a traditional Audio CD (not an MP3 disc). If you haven’t already heard the excerpt, go to the Spider’s Web page and check it out!
Mateo
Having listened to the excerpt, all I can say is that I hope Rupert read happy bedtime stories with kittens and bunnies to his kids, if he’s got any, because if he read anything like this with such vividness, well…
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-Pat.
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