Hi all - I have an AMA on Reddit, r/startrek, starting in about 45 minutes, if you're free and interested.
Events where I'll have STRANGE NEW WORLDS: THE HIGH COUNTRY for signing are beginning to be announced: Feb 24-25 in Detroit, MI: Great Lakes Comic Con Mar. 24-26 in Richmond, VA: GalaxyCon Richmond July 27-30 in Raleigh, NC: GalaxyCon Raleigh Quite a few more to come, I'll update as they're announced.
Updating. The STRANGE NEW WORLDS - THE HIGH COUNTRY book release event is at the Barnes & Noble location in Madison, Wis. — the huge West Towne store, on Mineral Point Road. That's at 7 p.m. on Feb. 21. I'll be doing a talk and a signing. After that: • I'm at Great Lakes Comic-Con in Detroit, Feb. 24-25 — we'll have the book there. • I'm at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, all four days, March 2-5. I have a table in the Authors Block; panels there, too. • Later in March, I'm at Galaxy Con Richmond in Richmond, VA. That's March 24-26. More to come!
This coming weekend (10-12 February) is Farpoint 2023 at the Hunt Valley Inn in Cockeysville, Maryland (just north of Baltimore). Several Trek fictioneers will be guests at the con, as well as a few Trek actors: Wilson Cruz (Dr. Culber on Discovery) Rylee Alazraqui (Rok-Tahk on Prodigy) Carlos Alazraqui (Admiral Buenamigo on Lower Decks) Rigel Ailur (Strange New Worlds anthologies) Keith R.A. DeCandido (Articles of the Federation, A Time for War, a Time for Peace) Michael Jan Friedman (Reunion, the Stargazer series) Robert Greenberger (A Time for Love, A Time for Hate) Glenn Hauman (Oaths, Creative Couplings) Aaron Rosenberg (Collective Hindsight, The Riddled Post) Howard Weinstein ("The Pirates of Orion," The Covenant of the Crown) Steven H. Wilson (Trek comics) There'll be a ton of other guests, too. They haven't posted the full schedule yet, but it should be on the site soon. Two anthologies with contributions from many of the above-listed scribes will be released at the con, also: Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2022 and Phenomenons: Season of Darkness. Hope to see folks there!
This coming weekend is Pensacon 2023 in Pensacola, Florida. Among the guests are the following Trek folk: Carlos Alazraqui (Lower Decks) Keith R.A. DeCandido (Articles of the Federation) Kevin J. Anderson (The Gorn Crisis) Lea Thompson (Picard) Michael Berryman (The Next Generation) Thom Zahler (The Sky's the Limit) Tony Isabella (The Case of the Colonist's Corpse) Hope to see folks there! I'll be doing a panel with KJA and Jonathan Maberry on Friday about writing in other people's universes....
This is still a couple months off, but it is looking to be a major event: Trek Long Island will be on the 20th and 21st of May in Hauppauge, New York (out on Long Island). The massive guest list includes four Trek authors: Robb Pearlman (Prodigy: Supernova) John Peel (DS9: Objective Bajor) Michael Jan Friedman (TNG: Death in Winter) Keith R.A. DeCandido (Articles of the Federation) Plus a really impressive bunch of actors. From Discovery: Doug Jones, Oded Fehr, David Ajala, Raven Dauda, Phumzile Sitole From Picard: Isa Briones, Evan Evagora From Prodigy: Bonnie Gordon From the original series: Sandy Gimpel, Tanya Lemani, BarBara Luna, France Nuyen, David Frankham From The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, and The Next Generation: Robin Curtis From Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, and Lower Decks: J.G. Hertzler In addition, they've got makeup artist Michael Westmore, composer Alan Howarth, visual effects artist Doug Drexler, and historian Bonnie Moss, plus several other authors who write about popular culture. Hope to see folks there! I'm hoping to have copies of Star Trek Explorer #7 (which will have a short story by me in it, my first Trek fiction in ages) to sell and sign.....
I'm at Galaxy Con in Richmond later this week, set up in the main hall and also appearing on panels — and then I am at C2E2 in Chicago, signing at Table 1 in the Writer's Block and speaking on multiple panels. The full C2E2 schedule is here — and I'd like to note that Sunday morning there I'm doing a "Science of Star Trek" panel with Dr. Don Lincoln of Fermilab, who advised me on some of the science in THE HIGH COUNTRY.
I'm off to Zenkaikon 2023 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania as one of the guests of honor this weekend. I'll have a table in the exhibit hall, where I'll be selling and signing copies of my books (the only Trek title I'll have is Tales of the Dominion War), and doing programming. My full schedule is here: https://decandido.wordpress.com/2023/03/20/ill-be-at-zenkaikon-this-weekend/
I mentioned this before, but this coming weekend (the 20th and 21st of May) is the inaugural Trek Long Island convention at the Hyatt Regency Long Island in Hauppauge, New York. They've got a fantastic lineup of actors from the original series, Discovery, Picard, Prodigy, and more, behind-the-scenes people, artists, performers, and more, plus some nifty Trek writers and artists: Robb Pearlman (Prodigy: Supernova) John Peel (DS9: Objective Bajor) Michael Jan Friedman (TNG: Death in Winter) Keith R.A. DeCandido (Articles of the Federation) Allan Asherman (The Star Trek Compendium) Sean Von Gorman (Star Trek: Picard: Stargazer) Aaron Rosenberg (SCE: The Riddled Post) Glenn Hauman (SCE: Oaths) The guest list for this sucker is huge -- there are a bunch of other authors as well. Come out and see us! In particular, be on the lookout for the ashcans for Sherlock Holmes: Cases by Candlelight Vol. 2 featuring me, Aaron, MJF, and Christopher D. Abbott at the con!
This weekend is Shore Leave 43 at the Delta Hotel by Marriott in Hunt Valley, Maryland. As ever, there will be a ton of Trek lit folk present: Rigel Ailur (Strange New Worlds) Lorraine Anderson (Strange New Worlds) Derek Tyler Attico (Star Trek Adventures) Christopher L. Bennett (Living Memory) Kirsten Beyer (co-creator of Star Trek: Picard) John Coffren (Strange New Worlds) Keith R.A. DeCandido (Articles of the Federation) Kelli Fitzpatrick (Star Trek Adventures) Michael Jan Friedman (Death in Winter) Robert Greenberger (Star Trek: The Complete Unauthorized History) Glenn Hauman (Creative Couplings) Amy Imhoff (StarTrek.com) David Mack (Harm's Way) Robb Pearlman (Trek the Halls) Scott Pearson (Shattered Light) Aaron Rosenberg (Collective Hindsight) Melissa Scott (Proud Helios) Amy Sisson (The Sky's the Limit) James Swallow (The Ashes of Tomorrow) Dayton Ward (Somewhere to Belong) Howard Weinstein (the animated episode "The Pirates of Orion") Richard C. White (Echoes of Coventry) Steven H. Wilson (Star Trek Special) In addition, Trek actors Penny Johnson Jerald, Robert Duncan McNeill, Robert Picardo, and Bonnie Gordon will be guests, along with actors from The Orville, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, Stargate, and Supernatural. There will be several other author guests as well. A bunch of books will be debuting, including two of mine: Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups and Sherlock Holmes: Cases by Candlelight Volume 2. Here's the full list of debuting books, which you can get at Friday night's Meet the Pros party. In addition, I will be debuting a thing on Friday night. Come to my table at Meet the Pros to find out what it is!
I wish I could make it. (I say that every year.) I had a great time that one time I went back in 2003, I think. This year just wasn’t in the cards, what with having to drive one of my younguns out to Houston the following week (and then me be back to work again as a teacher the beginning of August). Next year! — David Young
I will be at GalaxyCon Raleigh the last weekend in July — it's a four-day event, drop on by! Immediately following that, I am presenting workshops at the GenCon Writers' Symposium in Indianapolis. If you're attending the convnetion, here's my schedule with sign-up links.
I will be a guest at ConnectiCon this coming weekend in Hartford, CT. I'll have a table where I'll be selling and signing books, and will also be doing a bunch of programming. My full schedule is here. Also, like the good Mr. Miller, I will be at GalaxyCon Raleigh, where I'll have a table in the exhibit hall as well.
This coming weekend is Philcon 2023, one of the oldest science fiction conventions, held these days in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. I will be one of the author guests there, as will fellow Trek scribes Glenn Hauman, Aaron Rosenberg, and Susan Shwartz. My wife, Wrenn Simms, and I will have a table where we'll be selling copies of my books and her craft items, as well as our new co-venture, The Four ???? of the Apocalypse, the inaugural title from our very-small press WhysperWude. My full schedule is here, and the general schedule can be found here.
I'm at Forbidden Planet in London on Saturday December 9th, signing my Rivers of London comic Here Be Dragons (and anything else you might like to get my scribble on) along with Rivers creator Ben Aaronovitch and editor Andrew Cartmel - details here!
I have a bunch of new releases this spring — including the trade paperback Strange New Worlds - The High Country and The Living Force, my new Star Wars novel. We just announced the events for that today, so here's where I am through mid-April: February 29-March 3, 2024 EMERALD CITY COMIC CON Seattle, WA Event details March 15-17, 2024 GALAXYCON RICHMOND Richmond, VA Event details March 22-24, 2024 MIDSOUTHCON Memphis, Tennessee Event details April 9, 2024, 6 p.m. LIVING FORCE Release Event – Appleton, WI Barnes and Noble 4705 W. Grande Market Drive Grand Chute, WI Event details April 13, 2024, 1 p.m. LIVING FORCE Release Event – Madison, WI Barnes and Noble West Towne Mall 7433 Mineral Point Rd. Madison, WI Event details April 13, 2024, 6 p.m. LIVING FORCE Release Event – Milwaukee, WI Barnes and Noble Mayfair Mall 2500 N. Mayfair R. Suite 196 Wauwatosa, WI 53226 Event details ...and we already announced August 29-September 2, 2024 DRAGONCON Atlanta, Georgia Event details More to come...