Distant Destinies Actually to Return in 2017

The press is using soft reboots a lot lately. This is no exception. Distant Destinies is slated to return some time in early 2017, with the revised first book. The first run with Author House was out in November 2008 on election year, and now, in this election year, it is back, but instead of before the election, after it.

They are no longer associated with Author House and have still not nabbed a new publisher. That is the main problem. The stories could all come out, all the seven novels, if there was a platform for having them.

Tentatively, the revised first book will emerge some time online in early 2017 followed by each already finished sequel, like seasons of a series, once every month.

Sister series Star Crackers will be coming out at the same time, with only a few books.

The major change with book one is they have ditched the whole 'ancient aliens on old Earth' prologue and don't address it. In 2008 that seemed like a good idea. Now it is a cliche.

The cover art will be way, way better.  It will look professional and not so much like a cartoon throwback to 1980s pop novel covers, like those for Robotech. It should not have looked like that. It likely will look more like movie box art for some big Marvel or Star Wars epic, even though it has nothing to do with Marvel or any of that.

Marketing was also the problem 8 years ago. The book was not done right. We came out thinking, because of several high profile Christian movies at the time, that we should market it to them and forget anyone else. We did break even eventually. It was a bad choice.

No, this thing is marketed to science fantasy fans of all ages, Star Trek, Star Wars, or anything like that, with epic scale. This series really is a space opera epic. It spans the cosmos of a space fleet. It is ambitious and has moral and political fun, ensemble likeable heroes and villains, and of course, space battles.

Tentative release...?
Book 1: The Cohnirri Redemption, January 2017
Book 2: March 2017

So far.

Likely to be Amazon. 

Editing and Cleaning Distant Destinies Site

The site needs some work, as it gives too much away about future books and ideas, and some events have even changed since those ideas were added.

The character bios should likely be changed so that only the first book is mentioned so far.

The planets guide should probably also reflect just the first book, as the others are tentative.

I am going through to edit and remove spoilers and other information.

I decided not to use any planet, star and character information here, as a lot of it gives away too much and is not necessary. 

Distant Destinies Bringing Back Cohnirri Redemption

The Distant Destinies books will return next year, according to some estimates, as the sister series Star Crackers will also. All 7 Distant Destinies books will come out self published starting in 2017 and there will be much fanfare.

The editing of stories from the past took longer than once thought, and they had to make sure to exclude referenced to people that didn't want to be in it, weren't relevant, or situations that were weird that didn't make sense.

The first book was reviewed and there was very little in need of changing there.

They are still looking into who will be publishing the books, but they will have full creative freedom over them.

Distant Destinies was a 2008 novel that told of a future time period in human space flight after first contact with aliens.

Of the 7 known seasons or stories, it was the first.