Has anyone thought of contacting Baen? The Demontech series might be up their alley? They deal in a lot of Military Science Fiction and Fantasy. I know it would also depend on how much the current publisher would want for the property? They also have a nice web subscription where you can pay for and then download books. They also have a free library, kind of like a drug dealer trying to get you hooked. Yes, they did that to me. If they took it over, they could put Onslaught up as a Free download then charge for the others.
Not knowing how the publishing business works, that was just my two cents. I would love to see the series started up again, with us getting books and David being able to make money on it.
That's an interesting question. I'd wondered about having a different publisher pick up Demontech. However, another publisher might look at the sales of the first three books and decide the same thing as Del Rey. Are ebooks less costly to publish? Maybe they'd be willing to publish ebooks and sell them that way. I'd be willing to buy more Demontech that way as well.
Love the little demons that say "feeeeeed me". :)
But whatever you do, please don't write and suggest that I take DemonTech to another publisher, or to self-publish. Another publisher would look at the sales numbers and say "No thank you." Even if I had the money to hire a copy editor and cover artist, not to mention printing tens of thousands of copies, I don't have any way of getting the books into stores around the country and the world.
If you want to continue reading DemonTech, there are a couple of things you can do: You can write reviews at Amazon.com or other online booksellers, and personally urge friends, relatives, acquaintances, whoever, to try DemonTech.
Ok Mike, the gauntlet has been thrown down. I shall spread the word of the "Gunny who went to the relm of Demons." I will also write a review of it on Amazon and Barnes&Noble. I actually bought Onslaught b/c I loved Starfist. Read a few pages & then another Starfist book came out. Didn't pick it back up until I saw the next book. Once I got past Spinner & Heft escaping the town, it got really good...i mean REALLY good. Just like Starfist, I devoured the next two books and was crushed when their website stated "No More". Haven't been hurt like that since they cancelled Earth 2! Really, I loved that show...Clancy Brown rules. Sorry, tangent. Anyway, I've herd the call.
Ok, since we're talking Demon...Dan & David whasa wit da funky demon spek? Do you know how many times I had to reread to understand what the heck they were saying. Felt like an Intel guy. And while we're on explanations: The Jokapcul get the Army Field Manual & the Frangerians get the Gunny, right? So, whatever happened to the Gunny? Well, until the Goldengirl takes up baking, make mine DemonTech!
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