Upcoming Books, Rumored and Confirmed

[joshspazjosh]

The Beatrice Letters
RELEASE DATE: 09/05/2006? (initial reports suggested 08/??/2006)
PRICE: $19.99?
FORMAT: Hardcover?
PRINT RUN: 500,000
COMMENTS: OH MY GOD THIS IS GOING TO BE AMAZING. Basically looks like a companion to the book. You can see the cover here:

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Here is a summary from BN.com:

On the cusp of the last book in A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket offers an unprecedented compilation of evidence encoded in a collection of revealing correspondence.
Collected by Mr. Snicket himself and delivered to HarperCollins under cover of night, this exquisite collection of intriguing correspondence sheds light on many of the mysteries surrounding Lemony Snicket and A Series of Unfortunate Events. Including:


What was Count Olaf like as a boy?

What will happen in Book The 13th?

What are the ingredients in a really good root beer float?
This groundbreaking interactive package contains letters between Lemony Snicket and Beatrice as well as letters of the alphabet hidden throughout the package; unscramble it all and you will uncover what the future holds.

Is this even a book? It says "interactive" so I am not sure what they are referring to here. Is it a bundle of papers? Is there an interactive element (CD-ROM)? Or are they just referring to the code that they say you have to break?

If you want to discuss this book further, you can go to its official thread.

Book The Thirteenth: The End
RELEASE DATE: 10/13/2006?
PAGES: 384?
PRINT RUN: 2.5 million
COMMENTS: There's been a lot more publicity for this book than usual. . .

[Violet]

Private Library edition?? That sounds like a...rare rare edition to me. The Loathsome Library?? What is that??

Thanks for the info!

[Dante]

"The Gloom Looms"?

I'm disappointed.

[GOOGLE]

"D." said:

"The Gloom Looms"?

I'm disappointed.

can you ever look on the positive side of things?

[champ103]

I rather like 'The Gloom Looms' myself. The Loathsome Library sounds interesting, but I'm slightly annoyed by the Library edition of TBB. How different can it be to the Rare Edition?

[Gigi]

joshspazjosh said:

OLD STUFF
-Well, this has been known for a long time, but it's coming out in around three weeks (still no cover image!) so I thought I should mention it. "Lemony Snicket: Inventors and Creators" by Hayley Mitchell Haughen comes out on March 12. Amazon lists it under the genre of "Biography". . .interesting. . .

Why is that interesting? A lot of publishers, especially those that publish books for school libraries, have sets of books that follow a theme. This is obviously a biography of Lemony Snicket (most likely Daniel Handler).

NEW STUFF

-A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Loathsome Library Vol I comes out Sep. 1, 2005. It is a $65.00 hardcover. Normally I'd think that this was the first four or five books of the series in one volume, but the Omnibus comes out only six months before so I'm reluctant to think that's the case.

$65 was the list price. Amazon is selling it for $40.95. I am guessing that it will be the first 6 (or 7) books. Once all 13 are out, they will have a second Loathesome Library.

-TBB Private Library Edition comes out Sep. 1, 2005 also. Sounds interesting, whatever it is.

Didn't they already do the Rare Edition with extra notes? How many versions do they need? How much money can they squeeze out of their readers?

-The next box set, according to Amazon, is "The Gloom Looms" and will be released at the same time as Book #12 in Oct. 2005. Presumably it will contain books #10-12.

-I just noticed this. . .#12 is listed on Amazon as $15.89! Kind of expensive. . .

That will come down, you watch. Barnes & Noble lists it for $11.99.

[Dante]

My problem with "The Gloom Looms" is that it doesn't really emphasise the danger that the Baudelaires were in. It simply implies unhappiness, whereas "The Situation Worsens" and "The Dilemma Deepens" all give a feeling of desperation, of that danger which I mentioned.

The Private Library Edition of TBB can't be another RE. What is there to add?

I remember seeing "A Library of Unfortunate Events" on Amazon.com, which was the current eleven books plastic-wrapped together. I can't see what this "Loathsome Library" can have which will be any different, really. Either way, I reckon that it will be the first six books, and then Volume 2 will be the next six books, with number 13 left on its own again, as seems to be happening with the boxed sets.

Edit: Also, GG, now seems like a good time to badger your insider for any slim scraps of information that you might be able to obtain.

[Gigi]

What might be kinda cool for the Private Library Edition of TBB is notes like written in the margins of each page. The thing is, when it was first written, I don't think he had all the VFD and schism stuff all worked out. So then, he might have to make up some background for it.

[Dante]

G said:

What might be kinda cool for the Private Library Edition of TBB is notes like written in the margins of each page. The thing is, when it was first written, I don't think he had all the VFD and schism stuff all worked out. So then, he might have to make up some background for it.

I think that the BBRE sorted that out pretty nicely... Although since Amazon.com lists them as having the same page counts, that could be regarded as evidence backing up your theory.

Or it could just have a different cover, or be completely rewritten, or some other gimmick highly desirable feature.

[Gigi]

"D." said:

Edit: Also, GG, now seems like a good time to badger your insider for any slim scraps of information that you might be able to obtain.

Yeh, I was just thinking of that too. Harper-Collins still doesn't list it on their page, but she's confirmed the release date for us. I'll e-mail her tomorrow looking for information.

[Dante]

G said:

Yeh, I was just thinking of that too. Harper-Collins still doesn't list it on their page, but she's confirmed the release date for us. I'll e-mail her tomorrow looking for information.

Thank you very much.

[Gigi]

"D." said:

My problem with "The Gloom Looms" is that it doesn't really emphasise the danger that the Baudelaires were in. It simply implies unhappiness, whereas "The Situation Worsens" and "The Dilemma Deepens" all give a feeling of desperation, of that danger which I mentioned.

How about "The Crisis Increases"? I like all the "s" sounds.

[Dante]

G said:

How about "The Crisis Increases"? I like all the "s" sounds.

It sounds too similar to the current section title for my tastes... And it just sounds wrong. Can a crisis "increase"? I liked Antenora's suggestion of "The Tables Turn."

[Gigi]

But did the tables turn? Count Olaf still seems to be winning.

It's kind of cliche, but what about "The Plot Thickens"? It doesn't have to have double initials.

[Dante]

G said:

But did the tables turn? Count Olaf still seems to be winning.

The Baudelaires were doing darn well in TSS... And there was all that stuff in TGG about the tables turning.

Edit: And yes, double initials doesn't seem to be a problem with the boxed sets.

Edit Again: Board name has been changed (thank you Tragedy) to reflect the name of the box set. The thirteenth book problem will be dealt with after Book the Twelfth has been released.