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Post by Thomas Wolmer on Nov 29, 2018 12:11:51 GMT
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Post by spartanroarke on Nov 29, 2018 13:50:00 GMT
Finally! This is great news!
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Post by GhostofLandar on Jan 24, 2019 18:32:06 GMT
It's almost February
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Post by Rusty Radiator on Jan 29, 2019 11:34:52 GMT
I keep having little bets with myself, about which I'll get to read first-
Winds of Winter or Dead in the Deep, lol...!
I had cut the odds a lot on DitD, but now....
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Post by jmisno1 on Jan 29, 2019 16:29:27 GMT
Any idea on prices?. I've got around £50 saved and want to know how many I can afford
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Post by spartanroarke on Feb 2, 2019 17:41:23 GMT
Any rumblings out there about when to expect this? In my experience ‘early’ in the year can mean anything from January to June when you’re talking about a small publisher, and that’s if everything runs on time. Still excited for this!
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Post by aggsol on Feb 2, 2019 19:06:48 GMT
when people announce something so early it s very likely to fail.
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Post by GhostofLandar on Feb 8, 2019 2:14:26 GMT
I don't know. I mean we had a site that was Joe's old site, you could buy Storms of Chai (when it was still available) and other products, I think the maps. Yeah, it was mapsofmagnamund.
I'm not sure why they couldn't transfer that content to the new site instead of shutting the old one down, then having this gap. It's just a website, we don't have to have the book published yet (though it's been out in Italian since November, yes?) just have something we can browse or hints at other products.
I don't want to be a whiner but it's been 20 years and all any of us ever wanted was 29-32. In that time, Warhammer has had a resurgence, is the subject of multiple video games, both the 40K and the fantasy that they killed off. Joe was the inspiration for a lot of what they used (or directly stole) and yet we're sitting here with Project Aon (which is wonderful, no arguments there, I'm not ungrateful), a few abortive runs of special editions that never were finished, some great supplemental content like the Sommerlund and the Bestiary stuff, and book 29. Since the original #1-28, other than those excellent supplements, we've had one book of the remaining 4 told (in English.) Even if they open the site tomorrow and have books available, we're not going to get to 32 until 2022, I bet. Project Aon's front page with Joe's letter is dated 1999!
The thing is, I'm not even "blaming" people, I don't think Mongoose meant to take orders and not be able to complete production, and of course Joe passed away, but the timeline here in an age of self-publishing physical and electronic books, PDFs, etc is just astounding to me. Especially when you consider how fast (seemingly) the role-playing/world-building supplements seemed to be developed and published.
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Post by kurz81 on Feb 8, 2019 18:19:06 GMT
Kinda scared about the loss of news about LW30 in English ...
We're supposed to see LW31 for the next Lucca Comics and LW32 the following year, but my sixth sense is telling me something is wrong... I hope that simply things are behind schedule and my dream of seeing the saga complete will become reality.
Cross fingers...
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Post by Lucy Van Pelt on Feb 9, 2019 4:12:54 GMT
Kinda scared about the loss of news about LW30 in English ... We're supposed to see LW31 for the next Lucca Comics and LW32 the following year, but my sixth sense is telling me something is wrong... I hope that simply things are behind schedule and my dream of seeing the saga complete will become reality. Cross fingers... I have sent numerous emails to the descendents of the Dever family but to no avail. Lucy |
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Post by Lucy Van Pelt on Feb 9, 2019 4:15:53 GMT
I don't know. I mean we had a site that was Joe's old site, you could buy Storms of Chai (when it was still available) and other products, I think the maps. Yeah, it was mapsofmagnamund. I'm not sure why they couldn't transfer that content to the new site instead of shutting the old one down, then having this gap. It's just a website, we don't have to have the book published yet (though it's been out in Italian since November, yes?) just have something we can browse or hints at other products. I don't want to be a whiner but it's been 20 years and all any of us ever wanted was 29-32. In that time, Warhammer has had a resurgence, is the subject of multiple video games, both the 40K and the fantasy that they killed off. Joe was the inspiration for a lot of what they used (or directly stole) and yet we're sitting here with Project Aon (which is wonderful, no arguments there, I'm not ungrateful), a few abortive runs of special editions that never were finished, some great supplemental content like the Sommerlund and the Bestiary stuff, and book 29. Since the original #1-28, other than those excellent supplements, we've had one book of the remaining 4 told (in English.) Even if they open the site tomorrow and have books available, we're not going to get to 32 until 2022, I bet. Project Aon's front page with Joe's letter is dated 1999! The thing is, I'm not even "blaming" people, I don't think Mongoose meant to take orders and not be able to complete production, and of course Joe passed away, but the timeline here in an age of self-publishing physical and electronic books, PDFs, etc is just astounding to me. Especially when you consider how fast (seemingly) the role-playing/world-building supplements seemed to be developed and published. I think everyone is feeling the way you do. I am going to sell my lw1 to 27 red fox on eBay soon. I cant get lw28. Why bother collecting them? |
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Post by Black Cat on Feb 10, 2019 17:24:00 GMT
Directly from Ben Dever today on the official Lone Wolf Facebook page:
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Post by spartanroarke on Feb 10, 2019 18:17:36 GMT
This is great news! Sounds like things are moving along nicely. I’m so glad to hear that the store will open with at least one book ready to ship, and another not far behind.
If anyone has the ear of Ben and Vincent, please encourage them to get book one, or even better the first five books, back in print. New CE’s are great for us existing fans, but to build the brand will require a good entry point to the series, and book one is the only true entry point. Speaking as a parent of three young kids, I can promise that adventuring as Lone Wolf today is as thrilling as it was thirty years ago. Further, kids (and parents) these days are much more conditioned to buying in to an epic series than perhaps we were. On my eight year old daughter’s nightstand right now is Ranger’s Apprentice book 7 of 12, Wings of Fire book 8 of 15, and Land of Stories book 2 of... a lot. Lone Wolf would be right at home in that stack (except of course we did a complete LW playthrough together when she was 4, and she still occasionally gets into my old paperbacks and has an adventure!) The choose your own adventure and character creation elements are still unique today and will set this series apart from others on the shelves. If nothing else, publish digital editions of the CE’s while waiting for the physical books to print. With proper availability and a bit of marketing there is no reason LW shouldn’t be an incredibly popular series.
Also, I’m excited to hear that the books are being printed in paperback again. I love the CE’s, but they are too nice and too expensive to write in, throw in a backpack, or hand to your kid, and those are some of the best things about Lone Wolf. I’ll continue to build my monument to childhood nostalgia with the hardcovers, but I can’t wait to replace my tattered old paperbacks with new editions as well. All around great news, can’t wait to see the future for this series!
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Post by wisestrider on Feb 10, 2019 22:47:04 GMT
This sounds promising - but as always the answers lead me to want to ask more questions - I do agree it's best not to say until there is a definite & deliverable plan in place though and I'm happy to wait for more information. Having said that:
It sounds like the collectors editions will only be books 23-28 - rather than looking to offer reprints of the other books (1-22) that people may have missed out on?
Disappointing for those affected if so, but at least paperback editions are back on the agenda (although currently not clear if these will include previous collectors edition only material - extended / rewritten Flight From The Dark or bonus adventures from the later books?).
I assume the paperbacks will start with Flight From The Dark so hopefully that'll be cleared up quickly - I do think the bonus material adds some value when you are trying to sell books that have already been made available for free on this website so I'd say it's possible those might be included.
Not sure how I'd feel about the original Flight From The Dark not being republished if they went that way though - either way would disappoint some.
Not clear if there are any plans to extend Book 28 back to 350 sections - I've always been curious about whether this was ever under consideration - but nothing was ever mentioned and we're slowly edging closer to decision time if so - this would probably impact on the writing of 31 & 32.
Sounds like we're still 3 years away from Book 32 if 31 is planned for next year - but I don't mind the wait so long as they stick to the schedule set out in this message.
What are these other projects mentioned?
I'd be surprised if it was a new series at the current rate of writing and with the Grey Star / Autumn Snow printing seeming to have got in a right mess - and I assume it may not be easy to bring those series back "in house" anytime soon.
More phone games? A compilation of bonus adventures (if they aren't in the paperbacks)? New novel's (those Mongoose trilogies actually started quite promisingly)? Probably won't hear much else about this for a while but fun to speculate.
If I was to make a suggestion it would be to try and publish the paperbacks as 4 separate series and publish each series in full at the same time (possibly packaging each as a "complete set" rather than individual books) - logistically / cost wise it would be more difficult but it's the only way I can realistically see these being released inside the next 10 years given how long it took to even get to this point.
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Post by GhostofLandar on Feb 11, 2019 2:28:06 GMT
Wasn't Dead in the Deep released in Italian? I fully understand that they're not doing just a flat translation, they're recreating the feel (as much as they can) of Joe's style in English, but how could they release it in Italian if the English was months away? Am I wrong about something here?
Good to hear news though. I guess if they're making their own publishing company that is a bit different than just trying to get a book out.
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