Here’s the latest from the moderated newsgroup that should bring a smile to a lot of faces:
Title: Crusade by Labor Day
Author: jmsatb5@aol.com
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 07:24:14 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <3.14159265.040109.2259@B53rDage.googlegroups.com>
Author: jmsatb5@aol.com
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 07:24:14 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <3.14159265.040109.2259@B53rDage.googlegroups.com>
Now that the first of the two Crusade books is ready for print, I thought I’d jump in with a quick update on them.
Regarding the delay of the two Crusade books…it’s the B5 tradition.
You can tell someone about B5 and Crusade folks, but until they see what follows, it’s like trying to tell someone about Hurricane Katrina coming in…you don’t really understand what that means until it comes to your front door. The Script books team has been hustling like crazy to produce other books, until I could get around to telling the story about Crusade.
For me, on a personal basis, it’s been an amazing process to go back in time, through the memos, scripts and photos, and re-live it. And then, when it’s done, the final tale will at last be told in its entirety…the show, the good, the bad, and the show *behind* the show.
I’ve been very pleased that so many folks who have received the Babylon 5 volumes have said great things about the them. Though, bear in mind that there is a ceiling on how long these final Crusade script books will be available at www.babylon5scripts.com so get in while the Cafe Press price breaks will give you maximum benefit.
After the Asked and Answered series is released in April and finished in August, The first Crusade book should release around Labor Day. The volume 2 should be out somewhere around Thanksgiving, which has all the cool stuff through “Each Night I Dream of Home”, with all the info about how Fred Dryer almost ended up as the captain of the Excalibur, the “show order” controversy, and several characters such as Jane the ISN imbeded correspondent, who were going to be in the show as regulars but weren’t. Since I know a lot of folks were curious about potential material, I’ve also found a couple dozen one-paragraph to multi-page premises for episodes (and other cool stuff) that never made it to full script.
Crusade will also be the first set of script books to be offered electronically. After resisting electronic publishing, I thought, “What the hell, let’s try it.” It will be available through iTunes and Amazon’s kindle (A cute little device that I have been enjoying.)
I have to be honest…I’m enjoying the hell out of this joke.
The Crusade books will be out anon.
** This was a joke, and only a joke, jms is too busy writing. Had this been the actual Crusade announcement, Jan, Jacyln, or Jason from the scripts book team would have been announcing it. **
Happy April Fools Day!!!!!
Okay. You got me. I’m reading that, thinking to myself that if I don’t eat lunch, and only have breakfast every other day, I might be able to save enough to buy the script books by the date offered. My hopes rose excessively, only to be dashed by this cursed day. Sigh. I shall, no doubt, laugh anon, but missing out on my imagined joy at the Crusade scripts, for now I’ll just cry, quietly … to myself … alone.
I’m sure JMS knows better than to risk an ass-kicking from our resident Ninja by pulling a prank like this!
That said, nice one, Gary. My leg was well, and thoroughly, pulled.
Be seeing you.
Curses, foiled again.