From delighted to irked

Jo Graham, the author of the yet-to-be-published SGA novel "Death Game" posted this in her LJ yesterday:

Stargate Atlantis: Legacy is an exciting new book series from Fandemonium Books coming in 2010. As the fantastically successful New Jedi Order series did for Star Wars, Legacy takes Stargate Atlantis fans on to uncharted new ground, exploring what happens next after the end of season five. With no reset to zero, the jeopardy for our favorite characters has never been greater as they face entirely new challenges and dangers, as well as old foes revitalized. Sheppard, McKay, Teyla, Ronon and the rest must face Wraith, Genii, and their most dangerous foes yet in a galaxy-spanning adventure to uncover the true legacy of the Ancients -- a battle from which all may not return.

Book One, The Return, by Melissa Scott and Jo Graham, will be out in September, 2010. Melissa Scott is the author of more than twenty science fiction and fantasy books, including Trouble and Her Friends, Five Twelfths of Heaven, and, with Lisa A. Barnett, Point of Hopes and Point of Dreams. She has won numerous awards, including the Campbell Award in 1986. Jo Graham is the author of three historical fantasy novels, as well as the Stargate Atlantis novel Death Game. Book Two, The Missing, by Jo Graham and Amy Griswold, will follow in January, 2011. Source

Awesome, isn't it? A new SGA book series from Fandemonium! So why am I irked?

Because Fandemonium canceled the SGA book "Dead End" by Chris Wraight that should have come out today. Yes, just a couple of days before the book - already postponed several times before that - should've been published, they canceled it completely. Someone asked about it Mark over at Fandemonium and you know what? He responded with "Sorry, it was canceled" - and the rest of his email was an advertisement for SGU's pilot novelization "Air" by James Swallow. It's SGA's cancellation all over again - "Hey, SGA was canceled, but here you have SGU and be content with that!" Yes, it made me... cranky. Fandemonium is becoming more and more unreliable in their publishing schedule.

Fic rec: CWRPS, J2

SLASH --> J2, AU: "Indigo" by raeschae and vamphile. Summary: Jensen isn’t a hooker. For real, he’s not. Jared occasionally stays at the Hotel Indigo. He missed the memo. Length: ~10.000 words.

And now this guy, who really doesn’t act like any hooker Jared’s ever fucked around with, is making Jared stay in bed while he calls the kitchen and demands soup and juice. He’s pretty sure he heard Jensen ordering the concierge to keep the hallway clear of noise and guests so that Jared could get some uninterrupted sleep. It’s possible that Jensen isn’t real at all. That he’s some kind of angel. And that Jared’s meant to marry him.

Of course, he’d have to stop being a hooker for Jared to marry him. He has standards, after all. Or, rather, his mother does. It wouldn’t be that hard to get Jensen to quit, though, he figures. He’s a good guy, and he seems to like Jared. He could propose, over dinner, that Jensen leave his current pimp, or handler, or whatever the fuck he calls the guy who books his appointments. He could offer to buy out Jensen’s contract, all romantic-comedy, grand-gesture style, and then rip it up symbolically, just before sweeping Jensen up in his arms and carrying him over the threshold of the house that once felt too empty, and is now full of Jensen and love.

So cute! Such a feel!good, funny story. Ha!