LEXX Book Termination
Real disappointed to hear about the raw deal you got, Valdron.
Although, I wonder if ANY book would be better than no book, at this point?
If you can get a company to publish ANY book about Lexx, that could open the door for future, better books about Lexx.
For one thing, it will require the company to acquire the rights to publish said book, making it easier for them the publish more books later. That first step of getting the rights is probably the biggest hurdle to get a company to take.
Secondly, if the book does sell well, that is a BIG incentive for the company to do more books. Companies like sure bets, and don’t like taking risks.
Now, I know it almost sounds like your book was being set up to fail. They intentionally publish a book that, by its nature, is not the best it could have been. Ergo, the book only does so-so, and the company feels they were justified in not investing more in the project… when really they are responsible for the mediocre success themselves.
Hmmm, sound like I’ve experienced this myself? I have. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] Only with two Collectible Card Games I worked on: Aliens Predator and Terminator. The companies making the two games did not do much to promote them commercially, or much to support them after they were released. Not surprisingly, the games didn’t do that well, and the respective companies used that as a justification why they did not fully support them in the first place. Both games are now effectively dead.
However, sometimes you just have to go for it. By all means, if you can find a publisher that will publish your work to its fullest extent, that’s great. But if you can’t, I still think that ANY book on Lexx is better than no book. At least you’ll have a foot in the door.
And I’m pretty sure we could rally a campaign to promote the book’s sales. I’ll bet everyone on this board would get one, I know I would.
Have you thought about approaching the company that’s making the Lexx trading cards? Books don’t appear to be their usual thing, but sometimes companies like to try branching out. Dynamic Forces has already expanded their license to make other Lexx products, and seems to be solidly behind the series. May be worth a shot:
[url=http://www.dynamicforces.com/htmlfiles/lexxpress.html]http://www.dynamicforces.com/htmlfiles/lexxpress.html[/url]