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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Drumroll, please

It's officially official, and I can announce the project that's been taking over my life for the last few months, and is likely to occupy it for a few months more. This from the publisher:

"Stargate Atlantis: Legacy is an exciting new book series from Fandemonium Books coming in 2010. As the fantastically successful New Jedi Order series did for Star Wars, Legacy takes Stargate Atlantis fans on to uncharted new ground, exploring what happens next after the end of season five. With no reset to zero, the jeopardy for our favorite characters has never been greater as they face entirely new challenges and dangers, as well as old foes revitalized. Sheppard, McKay, Teyla, Ronon and the rest must face Wraith, Genii, and their most dangerous foes yet in a galaxy-spanning adventure to uncover the true legacy of the Ancients -- a battle from which all may not return.

Book One, The Return, by Melissa Scott and Jo Graham, will be out in September, 2010. Melissa Scott is the author of more than twenty science fiction and fantasy books, including Trouble and Her Friends, Five Twelfths of Heaven, and, with Lisa A. Barnett, Point of Hopes and Point of Dreams. She has won numerous awards, including the Campbell Award in 1986. Jo Graham is the author of three historical fantasy novels, as well as the Stargate Atlantis novel Death Game. Book Two, The Missing, by Jo Graham and Amy Griswold, will follow in January, 2011."

I am unbelievably psyched to be working with these folks. You've heard me raving about Jo Graham already. Meg Burden is a talented YA author (Northlander and the forthcoming The King Commands). This is Amy Griswold's first professional sale, but I can almost guarantee it won't be her last.

And I'm looking forward to doing another series tie-in, particularly since the events of the novels take place after the end of the fifth season, and we're being allowed to move the story and the characters forward. It's always a privilege to work in other people's universes; to be able to do it with the brakes off.... It's going to be seriously fun!

5 Comments:

At 8:25 AM, Blogger Mel said...

Hooray! Congratulations!

My verification word is "tuftaks" which sounds like something you'd buy at a hardware store.

 
At 12:30 PM, Blogger edired said...

" Star Gate . . . . what a wonderful concept . . . .looking forward to many new ideas . . . .

 
At 4:08 PM, Blogger BLRobbins said...

Hoping this means you will be doing some readings/talks while I'm in Mass & Maine this August! Big fan, love to see you

 
At 6:30 PM, Blogger Jeffrey A. Carver said...

Hi Melissa -- I want to email you about something, but have lost your email address and can't find your website. If you see this, could you send me a note at jeff at starrigger dot net, please? Thanks!

Jeff Carver

 
At 6:58 AM, Blogger TomW said...

..and now I see it's published! Congratulations. Hope all is well...

Tom Whelan

 

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