This was posted on GEnie recently and thought it would be of interest to
those on the TML...
Category 11, Topic 3
Message 334 Mon Jul 22, 1991
DIGEST.GROUP [Jay Adan] at 20:00 EDT
DGP MegaTraveller Update
By the time you read this, MegaTraveller Journal #2 should be available
in your local stores. Subscriptions should be arriving about now as well.
Things are coming together quicker than I expected for Journal #3. It
looks like we may be able to make a late November release date with it. That
will put it about two months ahead of our planned schedule.
For those of you who panicked at the news that the Journal was being
released irregularly, but that we were striving for a bi-annual frequency: the
pendulum swings both ways. Six months is the "mean" period we're targeting,
but if we CAN publish it sooner, we will.
At any rate, I'm pretty pleased with the way the content's shaping up.
And for those of you who are preparing to send SASE's for your DoD stats (see
Journal#2's Helm Report), save your stamps! Journal#3 will be publishing them -
possibly as a pull-out supplement. Other goodies include a Worldguide for
Vincennes and a new alien minor race in the Domain by William H. Keith, Jr.
We've straightened out our problems with the SOLOMANI & ASLAN manuscript
and are currently targeting that book for a September release. I can't wait to
see that one finished myself. Visually, it should really outshine VILANI &
VARGR. Not only are the illustrations more numerous, but they're being done by
two of the game's best illustrators, Blair Reynolds (FLAMING EYE and DEFYING
THE WOLF [MTJ#2 adventure]) doing the Solomani and Mike Vilardi (KNIGHTFALL,
THE NORRIS INTERVIEW, and SNAPSHOTS OF THE OCCUPATION [MTJ#2]) doing the
Aslan. Some of you who made it ORIGINS may have got the chance to see the art
for the Aslan section, as it was being worked on at our booth. The cover will
be by Dell Harris (MTJ#1 cover).
For those of you waiting for THE BEST OF THE TRAVELLERS' DIGEST, we've
back-burnered that product until we hit (IF we hit) a lull in MTJ submissions.
We'll announce that one as soon as we establish a firm date.
- - --Rob Caswell
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Category 11, Topic 3
Message 335 Wed Jul 24, 1991
DIGEST.GROUP [Staff] at 23:01 EDT
Delays, delays, delays...
Well, I don't like to report them any more that you like to hear them.
However, it looks like, after critically assessing the state of the Solomani &
Aslan manuscript, that that product won't be hitting stores until late October-
early November. The set back is a result of some unforseen editorial juggling.
- - --Rob
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