JMS on Usenet

October 2005

J. Michael Straczynski posts regularly on Usenet. This page provides quick links to his posts from October 2005, with a brief description of each. Unless otherwise stated, all messages are from rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated.

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31 October 2005

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS has finished writing the introduction to Volume Three.

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS provides some alerts about email from the Babylon 5 Scripts website.

30 October 2005

Re: JMS: BoLS = miniseries?
JMS confirms that The Book of Lost Souls is an ongoing series.

www.babylon5scripts.com now online
JMS comments on the popularity of the Babylon 5 script website.

Re: ATTN JMS: $0.00 off dvd sales? So downloading is okay? was: JMS: Re: Babylon 5 Universe Novels?
JMS is opposed to illegal downloading.

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
20% of the email notifications for the Babylon 5 script website were not transmitted properly.

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
The Babylon 5 script website is now online.

www.babylon5scripts.com is now live!
JMS announces that Volume One can now be ordered.

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS answers questions about dropped characters.

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS correctes a typo in his previous message.

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS lists some of the interesting items that he is including in the script books.

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS elaborates on how the script books have become a "Making of Babylon 5" document.

28 October 2005

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS hints about Sinclair's planned fate.

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
The script books have evolved into the definitive "Making of Babylon 5."

26 October 2005

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS managed to get seven of the recently-discovered memos into Volume One.

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS will not continue the Crusade story as a series of unproduced scripts.

25 October 2005

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS quotes some shipping rates for the script volumes.

24 October 2005

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS must consider the path of L. Ron Hubbard before he decides if he will release the Foundationsim text.

23 October 2005

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS will not be including the background information on Foundationism in the script books.

22 October 2005

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS has found an archive of production memos from which he will select the most interesting to be included in the script books.

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS is not sure what the script book shipping charges will be.

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS confirms that purchasers of all fourteen script volumes will recieve the fifteenth volume regardless of whether they purchase the books individually or all at once.

Re: Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS provides more information about his potential new series.

21 October 2005

JMS Babylon 5 scripts to be published
rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe
JMS announces his Babylon 5 scripts collections to the Marvel Universe newsgroup.

Babylon 5 Scripts Site Nearly Ready, And More!
JMS announces his Babylon 5 script collections and The Book of Lost Souls.

Re: JMS: Re: Babylon 5 Universe Novels?
JMS touches on his studio fees after Babylon 5.

20 October 2005

Re: JMS: Re: Babylon 5 Universe Novels?
JMS relates a story about the studio's desire for gratis actor participation in the Babylon 5 DVDs.

Re: JMS: Re: Babylon 5 Universe Novels?
JMS discusses studio accounting.

Re: JMS: Re: Babylon 5 Universe Novels?
JMS expains the history of why the Writer's Guild hasn't secured DVD royalties.

Re: JMS: Re: Babylon 5 Universe Novels?
JMS doesn't regret creating Babylon 5.

19 October 2005

Re: JMS: Re: Babylon 5 Universe Novels?
JMS hasn't made any money from the Babylon 5 DVDs.

Re: JMS: Re: Babylon 5 Universe Novels?
JMS explains why he isn't involved with the Mongoose Publishing Babylon 5 novels.

18 October 2005

Re: A Little Private Funding?
JMS corrects the email address error he made in a previous message.

Re: ATTN JMS: What happened to the Quote Book??
JMS discusses the fate of the Babylon 5 quote book and gives an update on the script books.

Re: A Little Private Funding?
JMS considered but chose not to solicit fan contributions for future Babylon 5 projects.

07 October 2005

Re: Attn: JMS Adding novel outlines to the 15th script volume.
JMS discusses his penchant for writing monologues.

06 October 2005

Re: Attn: JMS Adding novel outlines to the 15th script volume.
JMS comments on Mozart's short but accomplished life.

04 October 2005

Re: Attn: JMS Adding novel outlines to the 15th script volume.
JMS explains how he writes and why he doesn't write outlines.

03 October 2005

Re: Attn: JMS Adding novel outlines to the 15th script volume.
JMS won't include his novel outlines in the Babylon 5 script collections.

Re: JMS/B5 cited by Javi in Lost/Fury dust up
JMS clarifies that he didn't intend for Sinclair to leave when he originally plotted Babylon 5's five-year arc.

01 October 2005

Re: Attn JMS: Babylon5 LooneyVerse
JMS jokes about the Babylon 5 characters.

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