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I’ve brushed up on my html and created links from the images of the books to their individual pages. It’s NOT like riding a bike, it seems. 😛
Just go to the left side of the screen here on the Powys site. Click on Space:1999 Books. Scroll down to The Powysverse Compendium. Click on it. You’ll find a Lulu.com blue ordering button. If you click on the blue button, it will take you directly to the ordering page on Lulu.com where you can sign in and make a transaction. Make sure you select the correct quantity of books you wish to order.
Mateo
The declined card sounds more like a browser issue. I’ve seen it before. Try a different browser or use Paypal.
This video is for the “short” version (about eight and a half minutes long). The full version is thirty-one and a half minutes long! (And can be purchased at fine digital music retailers near you.) 😛
P.S. Thanks for subscribing!
I patterned Powys Media on Virgin Publishing’s Doctor Who books. Virgin began publishing Doctor Who books after the series was canceled (about three years later). The interest in Doctor Who was kept alive and the fires stoked by their “New Adventures” and “Missing Adventures” lines of novels and their “Decalog” anthologies.
A Doctor Who movie was even made for TV in 1996. Now the series is back on TV and extremely popular.
We’ve got a line up of forthcoming tiitles that we hope will meet your Space: 1999 needs. It’s amazing to me to look at the front page of this site and see all the books we’ve published. To think it all started out as a dream…
JKM’s a busy guy and has a lot of professional writing commitments. His next Powys novel will be The Prisoner: The Last Waltz. He will be contributing a story to Prodigal Moon, though!
Powys still has books like Survival, Year Two and the Resurrection audiobook available on the Powys site. These are not available via Lulu (although Survival is available through Amazon.com). Every person who checks the Powys site–especially new readers–is a potential sale of one of these older titles.
And they get clued into the existence of JKM’s THe House Between, The Prisoner’s Dilemma, and TKU’s music releases (yeah, I know, I chuckle at that too).
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The Prisoner was remade a few years ago. We still have that license. Who knows, maybe Jace Hall will want tie-in novels or novelizations…
No, they were all purple except for the first book, Breakaway (black) and the last book, Phoenix of Megaron (red).
We are also looking into re-releasing our audiobooks via another company, perhaps Magellan. All in all 2012, will be a big year for Powys: possibly ten to twelve new books, a few reissues, including an expansion of our catalogue into books of photography and more music releases.
We are also hoping to release a one-man play on CD. More about that later!
I’ve never been a fan of artwork that crosses the spine and continues onto the back of the book, to be honest. And yes, by wraparound, I simply meant the back cover, spine and front cover.
I’ve tried to have our books look like the 70s US releases to a certain extent. I love them, but we needed to distinguish the new books from the original releases. Hence, black back covers and spines instead of white and purple (though Breakaway had a black spine).
We couldn’t use the stars’ photos, and the logos were different of course. We did choose to put the title on the back cover (not exactly the only books to do so). We decided to include a sort of “poetic” description of the plots and a “boiler plate” paragraph of the premise of the series (book and television), including a phrase from Shakespeare, no less.
For the front cover, we wanted to have an Eagle over the logo–another hommage to the original books. I’ve never liked the Eagle used on the US books. “Parts” were missing! So Martin Willey suggested and/or provided the Eagle we eventually used. The starfield behind the Eagle was a late addition, we originally just figured using black would suggest shadows rather than “parts missing”. The addition of stars was a logical development.
The titles are laid out in a similar fashion, though right-aligned and–for some reason that escapes me–all the words of the subtitle begin in CAPS. Carlton wondered why. Now I do.
I decided NOT to number the books because we knew that the books would not be published in Alphan chronological order, but that fans would want to put them that way on their shelves.
Finally, apologies, but I’ve never liked the array of colors used on on the UK releases. When I met with the printer to discuss the project the very first time. I brought a copy of the novelization of the first X Files film, Fight the Future, and said, I want it to look like this!
Printing Phoenix with a red spine has always been the plan, however. I asked Ken to match it as closely as possible. I wish I knew why it had a red spine in the 70s!
