Author Topic: Upcoming Releases XVI: Jardine Grand Tour (Read 126758 times)

RanFelsnerAFFS · « **Reply #1200 on:** 12 July 2020, 13:35:11 »

Quote from: nckestrel on 12 July 2020, 08:25:15

Hopefully it arrives for you soon!

I would already be happy to just know the statusin the first place

BairdEC · « **Reply #1201 on:** 12 July 2020, 13:55:50 »

Quote from: RanFelsnerAFFS on 12 July 2020, 13:35:11

I would already be happy to just know the statusin the first place

No kidding. Catalyst's fulfillment company stinks. Every single thing I've received from them has arrived before they could get around to send a shipping notification.

Fat Guy · « **Reply #1202 on:** 12 July 2020, 14:14:50 »

Say what you will about this fulfillment company, but they're several orders of magnitude better than Battleshop. :thumbsup:

jimdigris · « **Reply #1203 on:** 12 July 2020, 15:56:59 »

The Battleshop has been good for me this past year.

Fat Guy · « **Reply #1204 on:** 13 July 2020, 09:21:21 »

Battleshop hasn't existed for a. few years now.

Euphonium · « **Reply #1205 on:** 13 July 2020, 16:39:21 »

Quote from: BairdEC on 12 July 2020, 13:55:50

No kidding. Catalyst's fulfillment company stinks. Every single thing I've received from them has arrived before they could get around to send a shipping notification.

CGL has certainly had issues with order fulfillment at times (remembers the HexPacks that were delivered ~5 years late), but they are much better than they were. My Shadowrun Spawl Ops kickstarter stuff finally arrived this week too!

Colt Ward · « **Reply #1206 on:** 13 July 2020, 16:51:25 »

Good . . . lol, now I will have to check the next couple updates to see if the complainer will acknowledge that shipment.

Lorcan Nagle · « **Reply #1207 on:** 13 July 2020, 17:26:46 »

Quote from: Euphonium on 13 July 2020, 16:39:21

My Shadowrun Spawl Ops kickstarter stuff finally arrived this week too!

Living in hope here!

Dragon Cat · « **Reply #1208 on:** 13 July 2020, 17:27:10 »

Quote from: HodgePodge on 11 July 2020, 08:28:03

This. After her review of the last credit card bill, my much-better half asked, "Have you lost your mind?" To which I replied, "Eighteen years on, and you're just now asking that question?" :D

Yes when we moved in together she saw my novel and sourcebooks...

Now I buy PDFs :D I've also gotten used to them especially the novels with apps on phone I can read the books anywhere anytime with a cup of tea in the other hand

Sartris · « **Reply #1209 on:** 13 July 2020, 17:32:40 »

as long as the books don't start spilling out of the office closet, my wife can deny it's a serious problem

Wolf72 · « **Reply #1210 on:** 13 July 2020, 19:08:11 »

Mine doesn't recognize one 'geek' book from another ... I can sneak stuff in occasionally >:D

Sartris · « **Reply #1211 on:** 13 July 2020, 19:13:42 »

The pod fiction is on the top shelf of one of my academic cases. I think she’s noticed there is an accumulation happening

Empyrus · « **Reply #1212 on:** 13 July 2020, 19:39:11 »

Quote from: Sartris on 13 July 2020, 17:32:40

as long as the books don't start spilling out of the office closet, my wife can deny it's a serious problem

Some day PDFs start physically spilling out of phones and PCs as books

Sigil · « **Reply #1213 on:** 13 July 2020, 20:20:05 »

I've been snapping up the new Print-on-Demand novels and novellas as they've become available. In the back of each one is a list of all the fiction. This list includes Isle of the Blessed by Steven Mohan. It appears after A Bonfire of Worlds (also by Steven Mohan) and before Embers of War, which are both available PoD.

Has anyone seen or know any thing about a Isle of the Blessed being offered PoD?

Sartris · « **Reply #1214 on:** 13 July 2020, 21:23:52 »

nope, but a lot of the BC long form stuff is back there. the Blitzkrieg fiction is in there too under another section

worktroll · « **Reply #1215 on:** 14 July 2020, 00:53:45 »

Isle of the Blessed was set on New Avalon during the Jihad, and was published as a serial on the now defunct BattleCorps site. Nice to see it in DTF. Was a good series.

Sartris · « **Reply #1216 on:** 14 July 2020, 00:59:29 »

not in dtf as of yet, but acknowledged as a BT novel in the publication lists at the back of new fiction

(meanwhile Ideal War has been absent from said list since they started adding the list)

worktroll · « **Reply #1217 on:** 14 July 2020, 04:06:57 »

That, and Star Lord, need not apply.

Lorcan Nagle · « **Reply #1218 on:** 14 July 2020, 04:16:37 »

Weird, Ideal War at least appears to be available as an ebook right now, though Star Lord isn't.

Sartris · « **Reply #1219 on:** 14 July 2020, 08:08:35 »

Yeah it made the transition to the Legends ebook line (and you can still get it on kindle)

I wonder if there was some kind of sticking point with the rights for a new printed version. The Sword and the Dagger is also missing from that list but the reasons are well-known.

LightGuard · « **Reply #1220 on:** 14 July 2020, 08:16:59 »

Hey, I enjoyed Star Lord for what it is. Which is a MW RPG session pushing Old Man Henderson levels of power gaming and weirdness.

And yes, I view almost all the fiction that is considered bad around here in the same manner.

(No, seriously, my most worn out novels are Star Lord, Main Event, and DRT, followed by Wolf Pack and anything GDL or Northwind Highlanders.)

I buy such a low-volume of digital goods, my wife doesn't care what I buy. I do have to discuss any purchases of $60 or higher because that eats my fun moneys.

Friday cannot come soon enough.

Fat Guy · « **Reply #1221 on:** 14 July 2020, 08:56:56 »

Quote from: Sartris on 14 July 2020, 08:08:35

The Sword and the Dagger is also missing from that list but the reasons are well-known.

The reasons aren't well known. What's well known is there are reasons. ;)

Sartris · « **Reply #1222 on:** 14 July 2020, 09:02:38 »

I mean the author pretty much spelled out the issues with the contract she had picked up from Weissman and Hicks. How exactly that bounces around in copyright law is tangled and messy, but we know enough

Lorcan Nagle · « **Reply #1223 on:** 14 July 2020, 09:13:28 »

Quote from: Sartris on 14 July 2020, 08:08:35

I wonder if there was some kind of sticking point with the rights for a new printed version. The Sword and the Dagger is also missing from that list but the reasons are well-known.

The Sword and the Dagger didn't even get reprinted in the 90s when RoC reissued all the other FASA novels

Colt Ward · « **Reply #1224 on:** 14 July 2020, 09:18:41 »

Battlemaster . . you know, you can get a TSM & Supercharger Battlemaster w/some Med VSPLs using the -1G gun port requirement . . . getting really curious about what got done to the old Beemer.

Sartris · « **Reply #1225 on:** 14 July 2020, 09:45:38 »

Quote from: Lorcan Nagle on 14 July 2020, 09:13:28

The Sword and the Dagger didn't even get reprinted in the 90s when RoC reissued all the other FASA novels

Yes. Though the Germans got a reprint. Regardless, it’s missing from the acknowledged novel list. Bonfire gets two entries (presumably because the lag between the digital and print releases?)

Hammer · « **Reply #1226 on:** 14 July 2020, 10:16:34 »

Quote from: Colt Ward on 14 July 2020, 09:18:41

Battlemaster . . you know, you can get a TSM & Supercharger Battlemaster w/some Med VSPLs using the -1G gun port requirement . . . getting really curious about what got done to the old Beemer.

I know where you can find a hint ::)

Colt Ward · « **Reply #1227 on:** 14 July 2020, 10:24:28 »

Quote from: Hammer on 14 July 2020, 10:16:34

I know where you can find a hint ::)

Well . . . unless I missed it (just checked) you have not released any more screen shots of Rec Guides MM testing. So all we had was Scotty's purple'd Battlemaster.

Hammer · « **Reply #1228 on:** 14 July 2020, 10:44:31 »

Quote from: Colt Ward on 14 July 2020, 10:24:28

Well . . . unless I missed it (just checked) you have not released any more screen shots of Rec Guides MM testing. So all we had was Scotty's purple'd Battlemaster.

Oh...it's not a screen shot...but it's down there. ^-^

Sartris · « **Reply #1229 on:** 14 July 2020, 11:00:02 »

Quote from: Hammer on 14 July 2020, 10:44:31

Oh...it's not a screen shot...but it's down there. ^-^