Cubicle 7 to publish the lone wolf game books

[Wise Eagle]

Joe just posted the following announcement on facebook:

Cubicle 7 to publish the Lone Wolf Gamebooks!

I'm very pleased to announce that award-winning game publisher Cubicle 7 Entertainment has secured the rights to publish all of my Lone Wolf gamebooks; past, present and future!

The agreement covers all English language editions of Lone Wolf, including brand new titles as well as the out-of-print volumes. The initial C7 release will be the highly-anticipated Lone Wolf 29: The Storms of Chai.

Fans of the ‘Collector Series’ hardbacks will now have the chance to complete their collections. Cubicle 7 will continue to release the books in the established format, re-publish the out of print volumes and fully complete the series.

I’m very happy to be bringing my Lone Wolf gamebooks to Cubicle 7. The C7 team are very talented and a delight to work with. They’ve done a fantastic job with the Lone Wolf Adventure Game. This deal is wonderful news for all my loyal fans. It makes perfect sense to have all things Lone Wolf gathered together under one roof, and Cubicle 7 has proved beyond doubt its uncompromising commitment to quality.

“Lone Wolf gamebooks introduced a huge number of people to fantasy gaming – myself included. It’s truly an honour to be involved with the Lone Wolf legend and we at Cubicle 7 are proud to be able to introduce Joe’s awe-inspiring creation to a whole new generation.” (Cubicle 7 CEO, Dominic McDowall - 26 Nov 2016).

This is a fairly important annoucement probably belonging to annoucement section. (But don't think I can make new topics there.)

[Dave]

Excellent news for LW fans around the world! This is Front Page material.

[Thomas Wolmer]

It's unusual for Joe to put it on Facebook first and not at www.projectaon.org/en/blog/, but here's the link anyway:

www.facebook.com/groups/magnamund/permalink/932864583457563/

There's some interesting info about novels too in the comments.

[pjagum]

You find it interesting, that they are not included in the deal? Or did i miss some valuable information???

[Wise Eagle]

Most of the information about this is on Joe Dever's home page on facebook, but it has been published to several group pages as well:

www.facebook.com/joe.dever.50?fref=ts

And yes, there is quite a bit of information in the comments too.

[redav]

That's amazing news! It's what I've been wanting to hear for a long time. Hopefully they'll sort out the errata and issues with the previous ones while they're at it. I wonder what pricing will be like?

[Wraith]

Does this mean material on Project Aon will start to disappear?

[Thomas Wolmer]

Dec 4, 2015 14:00:59 GMT Wraith said:

Does this mean material on Project Aon will start to disappear?

No, there should be no change for Project Aon. (It's Joe who decides about what may be published by Project Aon, so who publishes the physical books - Mongoose, Mantikore or Cubicle 7 - should not matter.)

[Wraith]

That's a relief, thank you kindly for the clarification Thomas

[greg]

March 2016 is the date for Storms of Chai, according to Cubicle 7's website.

For those of us who don't Book our Faces, what is the scuttlebutt on the novels?

[kiwiwolf]

Do you mean the two trilogies? Neither are currently planned, but hopefully this may change things!

[Thomas Wolmer]

Well, what was said was that August Hahn has finished the two remaining books of his trilogy, but there's no deal with a publisher yet. Regarding Richard Ford's trilogy, Joe however wrote: "As for the Dragons trilogy, it's highly unlikely that books 2 & 3 will be written/published (sorry!)."

[kiwiwolf]

What he ^ said! A bit more detail than I wrote one handed at the train station last night. On an earlier thread someone mentioned making some noise to see if a publisher would pick up August's ones, but I imagine C7 will be quite busy for a while with the reprints before considering something like that.

[greg]

Thanks. That is good to know about August's books.

[John Bryntze]

Dec 14, 2015 23:22:36 GMT Thomas Wolmer said:

Well, what was said was that August Hahn has finished the two remaining books of his trilogy, but there's no deal with a publisher yet. Regarding Richard Ford's trilogy, Joe however wrote: "As for the Dragons trilogy, it's highly unlikely that books 2 & 3 will be written/published (sorry!)."

I also understood it is not likely Richard Ford will write book 2 or 3 even if promised long time ago because he had a "contract" etc
What a crappy end of Dragons of Lencia if only book 1 be released, do we think it is possible that August Hahn (or someone else) could finish those two books instead?