WotC novels

[Matthew Morris]

Ok, was able to go look and was curious to with the recent 'hypothetical' thread.

Are there *any* new Eberron or Dragonlance novels in the pipeline? all I saw were 'generic world' novels and Forgotten Realms stuff.

Oh, and a Gamma World Novel.

[Vic Wertz]

Matthew Morris wrote:

Ok, was able to go look and was curious to with the recent 'hypothetical' thread.

Are there *any* new Eberron or Dragonlance novels in the pipeline? all I saw were 'generic world' novels and Forgotten Realms stuff.

Oh, and a Gamma World Novel.

Hmm. I hadn't noticed this until just now, but our distributor seems to have stopped carrying new WotC novels. The last time they added a new listing for one was November 2009. Though they did list "Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Dungeons & Dragons."

[Paul McCarthy]

Vic Wertz wrote:

Hmm. I hadn't noticed this until just now, but our distributor seems to have stopped carrying new WotC novels. The last time they added a new listing for one was November 2009. Though they did list "Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Dungeons & Dragons."

Apparently "Dungeons & Dragons" didn't teach them business savvy.

[Todd Stewart]

I'm pretty sure that Eberron and DL are essentially dead as far as the novel line goes. I'm pretty sure that there are still some FR novels in the works, based on author comments (and at least one trilogy by Paul Kemp whose publication was first dropped and later brought back but pushed into 2012 IIRC - and he's probably the one person writing D&D fiction whose work I would read regardless of edition or even game).

If the novel lines ever got dropped entirely, that would be seismic since I've always been under the impression that they traditionally made more money than the RPG line, with some level of synergy in promoting one another.

On a side note, when was the last time that an FR novel hit the NYT bestsellers list? Anything within the past year or two?

[Vic Wertz]

Paul McCarthy wrote:

Vic Wertz wrote:

Hmm. I hadn't noticed this until just now, but our distributor seems to have stopped carrying new WotC novels. The last time they added a new listing for one was November 2009. Though they did list "Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Dungeons & Dragons."

Apparently "Dungeons & Dragons" didn't teach them business savvy.

I've learned that Wizards no longer puts new fiction in their hobby catalogs—only omnibus reprints. So the lack of new titles in our distributor's database is not an indicator of what's coming out.

[Matthew Morris]

Vic Wertz wrote:

Paul McCarthy wrote:

Vic Wertz wrote:

Hmm. I hadn't noticed this until just now, but our distributor seems to have stopped carrying new WotC novels. The last time they added a new listing for one was November 2009. Though they did list "Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Dungeons & Dragons."

Apparently "Dungeons & Dragons" didn't teach them business savvy.

I've learned that Wizards no longer puts new fiction in their hobby catalogs—only omnibus reprints. So the lack of new titles in our distributor's database is not an indicator of what's coming out.

Well that's just damned annoying. The only WotC fiction I'm really curious about anymore is Eberron.

[Lori B]

I still keep hoping the 3rd Eberron Lanternlight Files book (Death Comes Easy) by Parker DeWolf will see the light of day. Not happy when only 2/3rd's of a trilogy gets published.

[Malaclypse]

Matthew Morris wrote:

all I saw were 'generic world' novels and Forgotten Realms stuff.

Yeah, as if FR wasn't generic enough, most of the new novels are set in the 'Core World' called Nentir Vale.