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Post by darthgall on Feb 9, 2020 18:48:15 GMT -5
Perilous Worlds have gone awfully quiet about a release date for this book. The thing that concerns me is that Perilous Worlds has gone awfully quiet, period. Last blog post on perilousworlds.com: March 6, 2019. Last Facebook post: August 1, 2019 Last tweet: March 8, 2019 Last Instagram post: February 19, 2019 There's still some activity on conan.com, but it's all about non-publishing REH stuff. So most recent word from publisher was Facebook on August 1, six months ago, when it announced delay in publishing Conan and the Living Plague. Maybe I've been backing too many unsuccessful kickstarters recently, but six months radio silence does not bode well... Mick - consoling myself with Howard Andrew Jones' "Upon the Flight of the Queen" and "Tales from the Magician's Skull" but still wanting more Conan
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Post by terryallenuk on Feb 10, 2020 14:47:16 GMT -5
Fredrik said on Twitter yesterday books are coming but he's been saying it a looooong time now without anything concrete.
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Post by stubbs on Feb 10, 2020 16:51:06 GMT -5
Perilous Worlds have gone awfully quiet about a release date for this book. The thing that concerns me is that Perilous Worlds has gone awfully quiet, period. Last blog post on perilousworlds.com: March 6, 2019. Last Facebook post: August 1, 2019 Last tweet: March 8, 2019 Last Instagram post: February 19, 2019 There's still some activity on conan.com, but it's all about non-publishing REH stuff. So most recent word from publisher was Facebook on August 1, six months ago, when it announced delay in publishing Conan and the Living Plague. Maybe I've been backing too many unsuccessful kickstarters recently, but six months radio silence does not bode well... Mick - consoling myself with Howard Andrew Jones' "Upon the Flight of the Queen" and "Tales from the Magician's Skull" but still wanting more Conan There's also been no news on the Tower of the Elephant board game and Serpent's Bluff card game they were producing. I think both were meant to be released back in September.
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Post by buxom9sorceress on Feb 12, 2020 16:59:48 GMT -5
come on P Worlds!
if you cannot publish
conan and the living plague?
then PLEASE give it to someone who can.
we want to buy it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2020 17:42:31 GMT -5
They should let Marvel publish them.
It's gotta be embarrassing for Perilous Worlds, they have been advertising their products in the Marvel comics for over a year now without a single publication to date. The website has not been updated in months, they gotta sort it out.
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Post by darthgall on Feb 12, 2020 21:31:48 GMT -5
They should let Marvel publish them. It's gotta be embarrassing for Perilous Worlds, they have been advertising their products in the Marvel comics for over a year now without a single publication to date. The website has not been updated in months, they gotta sort it out. Right? An illustrated version would rock! And they’ve already run some fiction, collect that in an illustrated edition too, since it seems like Perilous Worlds can’t get the ball over the line.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Feb 18, 2020 17:03:52 GMT -5
While this isn't the ideal situation, I think we just have to be patient, put our heads down, grit out teeth, and stomp onward. While I would love to see Hocking's books out ASAP, if you look at what Perilous Worlds was up to (all in the public eye) it was clearly less than professional from a production standpoint...those covers.... Conan deserves better than that, and I think he's going to get it now that all the pieces appear to be in place.
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Post by terryallenuk on Feb 19, 2020 14:11:36 GMT -5
About a week ago I sent a message through Facebook and an e-mail to their website asking for an update - no answer
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Post by terryallenuk on Feb 20, 2020 2:56:16 GMT -5
....and of course I get a reply this morning LOL
"For the time being we are focusing on getting the Games and Merchandise side of Conan/Perilous Worlds up and running."
Disappointing , even more so for the authors , I've asked what the merchandise will be and if we'll have further news by Howard Days. I'll let you know if I hear anything.
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Post by stubbs on Feb 20, 2020 3:09:46 GMT -5
....and of course I get a reply this morning LOL "For the time being we are focusing on getting the Games and Merchandise side of Conan/Perilous Worlds up and running." Disappointing , even more so for the authors , I've asked what the merchandise will be and if we'll have further news by Howard Days. I'll let you know if I hear anything. Interesting, given that they've been silent on the games side of things for about six months.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2020 3:28:27 GMT -5
....and of course I get a reply this morning LOL "For the time being we are focusing on getting the Games and Merchandise side of Conan/Perilous Worlds up and running." Disappointing , even more so for the authors , I've asked what the merchandise will be and if we'll have further news by Howard Days. I'll let you know if I hear anything. Thanks for the info Terry. All very disappointing.
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Post by scottoden on Feb 20, 2020 11:50:13 GMT -5
From this writer's perspective: it's not really *that* disappointing. Fred's still dedicated to releasing books, both featuring Conan and other characters in the Hyborian Age. He's not willing to go into it half-assed, which I, for one, appreciate very much. They had a set-back with the previous publisher (you saw those hideous covers, right?), severed ties, and have a new plan in place. It takes time. Even after I hand in a manuscript, it takes 12-18 months to *properly* get it into your hands, available in brick-and-mortar stores as well as online. Sure, they could do a slap-dash effort and get John's books into circulation by mid-March, but the market is extremely crowded -- anyone with a manuscript and an internet connection can now operate as a publisher. The trick is to pair it with wider media successes to get more eyes -- readers -- on it.
Example: I just released a book with a major publisher. Honestly, haw many of you heard about it? That's the sort of crowdedness I'm talking about. Another example would be the Witcher. Before the video games, how many people outside of its dedicated fandom had heard of the Witcher? And now, thanks to the successes in different media, everyone knows about it. Conan had more name recognition, but it also has more baggage. Triumphs in larger arenas will help offset this.
So, I applaud Cabinet for not rushing half-assed into the Charybdis of modern publishing. No matter how great John's books are -- and they are great -- if only a handful of dedicated fans know about them and buy them, there will be no others. Patience.
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Post by darthgall on Feb 20, 2020 12:24:02 GMT -5
Conan deserves better than that, and I think he's going to get it now that all the pieces appear to be in place. I assume those pieces are contracts, getting manuscript, perilous worlds operating, etc... are there others? My fear, perhaps pessimistic but still... is that Perilous Worlds had just stopped operating (still stinging from that Skelos Press kickstarter I guess), and the website that's still up is just a ghost website. **** OK, just saw Scott Oden's post, who's got experience in publishing world with actual books actually getting published, so I'm going to stow my bellyaching and keep my faith alive / find some other things to distract myself with in the short term.
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Post by paulmc on Feb 20, 2020 12:25:04 GMT -5
From this writer's perspective: it's not really *that* disappointing. Fred's still dedicated to releasing books, both featuring Conan and other characters in the Hyborian Age. He's not willing to go into it half-assed, which I, for one, appreciate very much. They had a set-back with the previous publisher (you saw those hideous covers, right?), severed ties, and have a new plan in place. It takes time. Even after I hand in a manuscript, it takes 12-18 months to *properly* get it into your hands, available in brick-and-mortar stores as well as online. Sure, they could do a slap-dash effort and get John's books into circulation by mid-March, but the market is extremely crowded -- anyone with a manuscript and an internet connection can now operate as a publisher. The trick is to pair it with wider media successes to get more eyes -- readers -- on it. ... So, I applaud Cabinet for not rushing half-assed into the Charybdis of modern publishing. No matter how great John's books are -- and they are great -- if only a handful of dedicated fans know about them and buy them, there will be no others. Patience. Glad to read this. I was not a fan of those covers. I had hoped they were just placeholders. Sounds like Fred made the correct call.
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Post by Char-Vell on Feb 20, 2020 13:01:05 GMT -5
So, I applaud Cabinet for not rushing half-assed into the Charybdis of modern publishing. + 500 XP for referencing Charybdis.
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