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.
