The Trekonomics New Year's Update

Dear readers, followers and friends of Trekonomics,

I am very happy to report that after two months of furious rewriting and editing, the final manuscript has been sent for copy-editing. We are on track for our late-spring 2016 release.

A lot of coordination is involved in producing a book. I am discovering the age-old process of designing a cover and gathering all the elements for the book's jacket as well the so-called "front matter" (that is, all the text and pages that are not part of the manuscript itself).  

Speaking of the book's front matter, we are planning a neat little surprise. It will be revealed in time (and I will not say anything more lest I jinx it). 

The cover is being designed by the incredibly talented Jennifer Bostic (http://www.paperplanestudio.com/) and John Powers (http://johnpowers.us/, as well his essential blog http://starwarsmodern.blogspot.com/). It is an awesome privilege to work with artists of their caliber. We will share the cover design and artwork with all of you as soon as it is blocked and finalized, within the next few weeks. 

2016 will mark the 50th anniversary of Star Trek's first airing on NBC. The exact date is September 8 at 8:30PM Eastern Time.  For that occasion, the US Postal Service will release a series of four commemorative stamps. Here they are in all their glory:

"Forever" means that they will be forever good for first-class letters, regardless of future price increases. Hopefully, we will be able to ship some of your pre-orders with these stamps on the envelopes.

As a final note, I am happy to announce that I am contributing to Fusion.net's Real Future on a regular basis. You can set your RSS readers to: http://fusion.net/author/manu-saadia/ or follow me on twitter (@trekonomics).  My latest piece was on Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

We will be in touch very soon. In the meantime, a happy and felicitous New Year.

Live Long, and Prosper

Manu

Happy New Year's Eve! Just a quick update today.

So this, this is pretty cool to see...

We have officially joined the Quill Collection page! Even though Dax is still technically in progress, this little detail makes it just a tiny bit more real and gives me the warm-and-fuzzies. Woo hoo!

Also, fantasy author Jamison Stone (Rune of the Apprentice) invited me to write a guest blog post at his site, Apotheosis Studios! I discuss a bit of my creative background, along with some of the inspiration for Dax, as seen in the dashing rogues gallery below.

Check out the article HERE.

New Year's resolutions, anyone? I have a couple.

1) Finish Dax, of course
2) Enjoy a nice break after publishing. Get through at least some of the stacks of books and video games I've amassed.
3) Maybe finally take up violin
4) Back to the gym. My back is killing me with all this sitting at the computer. (Yes, despite popular belief, it is totally possible to be a super nerd AND fit!)

OK gang! Back to writing, writing, writing...  

-Tony

Seven days in my campaign left! Yikes!

Ten secret-filled illustration postcards left! Tell all your friends!

I made a collage for Relai to go along with the Milo one:

Happy Wednesday!

Hello all,

I realized that I haven't updated in a while. I haven't been adding any new chapters to this novel because I've been working on my bigger story but I will be finishing it quickly after the first of the year because I will be done with the other one and they will all be put through lots of editing to make a really good final draft. I do have other chapters to post up and I will do that later on today. Please read my chapters and give me some feedback on what needs to be better or what you think is good. This story is also in the Sword and Laser contest so please if you are following and haven't pre-ordered please consider hitting that button and then share it with friends and family. Thank you all for your support of this story!

Hello everyone!

I realized that I haven't updated the story progress in a while. I have put the completion of this draft on hold for a bit in order to finish my bigger story "Isolation", but I will start back writing as soon as I have written all of my chapters for the bigger story. 

I have changed up the actual story a bit and instead of just focusing on Ivy, I am writing it in third person but looking at all of the other characters too so that is also taking a bit longer to figure out where to add it in and where to just leave it be. I will be adding another chapter later on today, please read and leave reviews or just make comments on my writing, any of that is very helpful to me.

This story is still in the Sword and Laser contest so if you are following and haven't yet pre-ordered please consider hitting that button. Please also share with friends and family and help me get a few more pre-orders. Thank you all so much for your support of this story!

Die-hard Rebels, and Royal subjects,

The holidays have been time consuming.  However!  We've updated to a new Facebook Page.

https://www.facebook.com/suffrageworldkeys/

We'll be posting here as well.  But Facebook will allow us to do some things and reach a wider audience.  Also, we'll be posting up a few additional pieces on the concept art as things progress.  The artist we commissioned has been working hard over the holidays to come up with beginning sketches.  When we go to publishing, we should already have a few plates of art to put into production. 

It is true that somehow Snake managed to get ahold of a cell phone in order to rally support for the Rebels.  But our sources say that Heinrich himself has managed to infiltrate the cellular networks.  Be on the lookout for any information concerning Heinrich's whereabouts.  Because if one of the Monarchs is involved, the others can't be far behind.

/Julian and Finn