When I was browsing your web site the other day i found that there was an astonishingly low number of forgotten realms books (aside from the Drizzt series) I would love some information on this topic if that's possible.
Thanks

Tom: I don't want to tell tales out of school, so I'll have to be vague: we would really like to have more books from Wizards of the Coast, but odd legal issues involving their corporate parent have put any new deals on hold for nearly a year now.

I have hopes that the situation will be cleared up at some point, but, for now, it's at the stage of lawyers talking to each other, which is essentially incomprehensible to me.

Looking through your catalog, I was a bit surprised by the absence of GREYWALKER, particularly since it got good reviews. Are you waiting for more novels in the series or what?

Johan: When it comes to vampire shagging/urban fantasy/contemporary paranormal books, we're pretty much always starting off with omnibuses, and only moving into doing the books individually when they're major bestsellers. We've done that with Hamilton, Harrison, Armstrong and Harris (who are the ones we've done individually so far). At the moment, we're still at the omnibus stage with Butcher, and we're just starting with Carrie Vaughan.

I do have two shelves filled with potential fantasy omnibuses, and the ones in the contemporary area that look most likely right now are Patricia Briggs's series about the mechanic, Greywalker, and Elizabeth Bear's Blood and Iron. But I do have pieces of (counts) twenty-nine fantasy series that could turn into omnibuses someday, so it's hard to say which will and which won't.

Other things to note: good reviews don't always mean that people are buying a book (though I've seen Greywalker on some genre lists, so I think it has been pretty successful), and there's a lot of books being published in this area right now. The SFBC has to be very picky to keep from having it take over the entire club...