Just purchased #1 . . .

[Donald]

Do be sure to post your thoughts, Donald!

Jan

Oh, I will! I look forward to discussing it with you folk.

[Jan]

Do be sure to post your thoughts, Donald!

Jan

[Donald]

I just bought the first three scripts (well, being a teenage I needed a little help from my mom) and I'm eagerly anticipating them!

[Jan]

Yes, signing up for the mailing list means you'll get future ones. Originally the mailing list was only going to be used to alert us of new volumes but as JMS has been so busy the past few months, the Script Team has used it to keep us posted a bit and in December it was via this list that JMS gave us the link to the photos from the set. There've been a couple to let us know about some of the merchandise available, too like the limited edition Declaration of Principles.

One other benefit to the alert list (newsletter, whatever) is that there's often a coupon that comes with it. Keep an eye here, too, because there's a thread that folks post some great cooupon info, too.

As for the old ones, I don't think you can get them from the website but I may have some saved at home. PM me if you want me to look for you.

Jan

[NotSoWize]

Guess we'll find out more when the next newsletter comes out.

Jan

Newsletter? Are back issues available? Did adding my name to the scripts team mailing list (or something like that) during the ordering process sign me up to receive a newsletter?

[Joseph DeMartino]

Actually, not trying to pick a nit (for once), just trying to head off the inevitable "then why doesn't he..."

"...finish Crusade"
"...publish the short stories"
"...do some other damned thing"

Questions like that were likely to follow the statement as posted. Yeah, most of us knew what you meant, but these rights issues can be pretty esoteric for people who don't have an unhealthy fixation on certain TV shows, and the natural question would be, "If he could do it for Twilight Zone..."

Regards,

Joe

[Jan]

You're right of course, Joe. I should know better than to use verbal shortcuts like that.

Embarrassed in Orlando,
Jan

[Joseph DeMartino]

On the other hand, JMS *did* publish a book of his Twilight Zone scripts converted to story form.

Well, whoever owns the rights to The New Twilight Zone licensed a publisher to do an anthology and somebody comissioned JMS to adapt his own scripts in prose form. JMS could not legally have done that and published the stories himself, because he only has publication rights to his scripts as scripts. The right to adapt the script to another medium remains with the studio, so they would have had to set the project in motion or accept a project proposed by a publisher, and JMS would have adapted his own scripts as work for hire.

Regards,

Joe

[JohnFourtyTwo]

Thanks Jan, hopefully the powers-that-be will consider it in the future.

[Jan]

On a similar but different note, are or were the scripts ever converted to a novel format like the TOS Star Trek scripts were about 30 years ago by James Blish (I think that was the writer)? If so, I would love to have those also.

No, they never have been. I still have the Blish books and I actually credit/blame them for my script addiction. There were often major differences between the books and what was seen onscreen but he'd mentioned using actual scripts. After that I was interested in seeing what the process was and when B5 and JMS and Ebay came along, my interest was fixated.

On the other hand, JMS *did* publish a book of his Twilight Zone scripts converted to story form.

Jan

[JohnFourtyTwo]

Hopefully I'll have a better paying job soon so I can buy them. At $39.99 a script is a bit steep for me right now. I would love to have Volume 15 which is only available to those who buy all the scripts and has the B5 version which has Sinclair in the entire series and he transforms into Valen at the end instead of the way it played out in the series.

On a similar but different note, are or were the scripts ever converted to a novel format like the TOS Star Trek scripts were about 30 years ago by James Blish (I think that was the writer)? If so, I would love to have those also.

[Jan]

Hard to tell. Historically, JMS has done the introducions and commentary very shortly before the book has come out. From what he's said at conventions, my feeling is that he decides to write based on deadline so, since fans preferred to have this book after the holiday period, he may well have not written those as yet. Guess we'll find out more when the next newsletter comes out.

Jan

[Spoo Junky]

I'm definitely ready for Vol. 10. Is it done now and just waiting for people's wallets to get out of intensive care after the holidays? It seemed that way to me from the email but maybe that was wishful thinking

[Jan]

Now there's a New Year's Resolution I can relate to!

Jan

[Kevin]

I actually just ordered #1 as well the other night with the New Year's Resolution of buying a new one each month to catch myself up as well Unless, of course, they near the end of the bunch, in which case I may have to expedite my purchasing efforts...