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Post by bigbob on Sept 14, 2014 14:06:26 GMT
hi many years ago my parents bought me a mega deal of the lone wolf collection. since then I have moved abroad, got married, had two children and so on!!!! I then realized that my parents had not sent any books from book number 15 so I got in touch with mongoose via email and after a short delay they sent me my books 16 and 17. the delay made me check there web site and much to my horror there was no lone wolf information at all (at the time I did not know about this web site) I then started to search around the web and much to my horror I was read some bad news regarding that publishing LW had stopped. I then sent mongoose another email asking for a refund as the contracted had been broken on there part, the reply was more or less asking me what was I talking about. I now see book 19 and 20 have been released so are mongoose still posting to original mega deal backers or have we lost out and I now need to order the books via the German company will the unreleased 4 books still be published and will they republish the world of LW along with the skull of agarash thanks in advance and look forward to your replys Bigbob
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Post by Black Cat on Sept 14, 2014 17:23:24 GMT
Short story: Mongoose lost the publishing contract after book 17. Mantikore-Verlag, a german publisher, picked up the rights for books 18 to 28 shortly after that.
Mongoose offered three choices to Mega-Deal subscribers: get a refund for the books you didn't receive, get Mongoose products in exchange of the value of the what you we were still supposed to get in LW gamebooks, or stay with Mongoose as they will order the LW books directly from Mantikore and then send them to you (as if the Mega-Deal was still going as normal).
I stayed with Mongoose, so I'm still getting my LW books for no extra charges, except that I get them a little bit later than those who ordered them directly from Mantikore. One of the reasons is that when I bought the Mega-Deal seven years ago, each book (LW gamebooks 1 to 32, plus six novels) cost approx. 15,74 $US. Now, because I won't get 4 of the 6 novels (unless Mantikore gets the rights to publish them) and because books 29 to 32 are currently not included in the deal between Mantikore and Joe Dever, each books will cost my approx. 20 $US. Currently, each LW gamebooks from Mantikore cost 37 $US (shipping included). You see why I decided to stay with Mongoose.
So, if you still want your LW gamebooks, get your Mega-Deal order ID and contact Matthew Sprange at Mongoose Publishing and tell him you want to keep getting your books: msprange@mongoosepublishing.com
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