m. c. de marco

Via Dean Wesley Smith’s site: The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, or IAMTW, is a new professional organization.

The IAMTW is dedicated to enhancing the professional and public image of tie-in writers…to working with the media to review tie-in novels and publicize their authors…to educating people about who we are and what we do….and to providing a forum for tie-in writers to share information, support one another, and discuss issues relating to our field (via a monthly e-newslette

TrekWeb.com has a review up of Strange New Worlds 8. Thanks to Paul Tseng for the link.

On the psiphi message board Marco Palmieri confirmed that Pocket Books’ Star Trek line will be cut back to one mass-market paperback per month, beginning in June. Hardcovers and trade paperbacks (e.g., Strange New Worlds) are unaffected. Much discussion of the change can be found at TrekBBS.

Let me be the last person to link the Wizards of the Coast open call for sf/f/h novel proposals. The deadline is March 1, 2005. They’ll only be publishing one novel this time around, so don’t hold your breath.

I submitted a neologism to the Langmaker neologism collection:

movel (n.) a movie novelization. [From a typo (“movel novelisation”) in Pandemonium Books & Games Announcement and New Releases e-newsletter, 9/23/04.]

I’ve been following the progress of Fandemonium Ltd.’s Stargate Novels for a few months now. I’ve always wondered what was going on in the Stargate tie-in world, and I still don’t know. Fandemonium is a London-based publisher licensed to sell Stargate books pretty much everywhere except the US and Canada. (All we get here are the reissues of a handful of poorly-received books from in the early days of the movie and series.)

Recently Fandemonium posted submissions guidelines for proposals, which they’ll be accepting by snail-mail in November. Some Pocket Books (Star Trek tie-in) writers posting at TrekBBS are unimpressed with Fandemonium, citing concerns vagueness about advances, the size of the UK market, the fannish aura of the promotional materials, and the general iffiness of the whole setup.

Yet Fandemonium has two Stargate novels out already, Trial by Fire (#1) and Sacrifice Moon (#2). A third is due out in November. Apparently, you can get them shipped to the US by Amazon UK (#1, #2). If you’re wondering whether it’s worth the expense, check out Julie Fortune’s on-line sample of Sacrifice Moon and the GateWorld forum thread about it.