Lt. David Mack?

[shanejayell]

Lt. David Mack? Author cameos!

I was reading the 'Genesis Wave' trillogy of books and was quite amused by the cameo appearance of David Mack. Any other interesting author cameos I should know about?

 

[David Mack]

In that same section of The Genesis Wave, Book One, look for Dr. Glenn Hauman.

Basically, chapter 14 of that book was a rush job I was hired for, and my "cameo" name drop was my version of a byline (as noted in an editorial acknowledgment at the end of the book). That gig led to me being hired to write The Starfleet Survival Guide, and from there I was invited to pitch to the fiction lines (starting with eBooks and later graduating to paperbacks).

 

[ronny]

First chapter of Planet X. Ensign Marco Palmiero and Lt. Clarke. I saw a DeCandido somewhere but I can't remember which book that was in. I think it came out before KRAD had had any published any ST.

In the Ward/Dilmore 4400 book I saw William Leisner and Allyn Gibson.

 

[Thrawn]

Clark and Palmieri are mentioned as Admirals a couple times in the Enterprise relaunch.

 

[Stevil2001]

Commodore de Candido is a character in L. A. Graf's Traitor Winds. There's also the alien speices "the Kradians" in The Case of the Colonist's Corpse and a member of the House of Krad in Doors Into Chaos. And the anagramatically named "Hetik" in This Gray Spirit.

Hetik of course gains his name from his partner-in-crime, Treir, who was introduced in Keith's own Demons of Air and Darkness. Unsurprisingly, there's characters named after Terri Osborne in a few of Keith's books; the one that springs to mind right now is te'Osbron in Diplomatic Implausibility.

David Alan Mack is also the source of the name of da Vinci tactical officer David McAllan.

Gene DeWeese's Engines of Destiny has a character named Garamet, after Margaret Wander Bonanno's anagramatical pseudonym.

"Ordovers" are a beast of burden in one of the Shatnerverse books (Spectre, I think) and the Ordover system is mentioned in Firestorm. The K'Vin in Doomsday World are named after then-editor Kevin Ryan.

 

[Lindley]

Which book was it that had Transporter Chief T'Bonz? I remember that from somewhere.....

 

[donners22]

One of the later New Frontier novels kills a Lieutenant Candido in gruesome fashion, IIRC.

There was a David Gerold novel with Elison's Star (a volatile dwarf), but not sure it was a Trek book.

 

[Stevil2001]

Which book was it that had Transporter Chief T'Bonz? I remember that from somewhere.....

She was introduced in A Time to Sow and reappeared in a few of the A Time to... books. She was also referenced in The Future Begins.

 

[shanejayell]

*lol*

Cool!

 

[William Leisner]

In the Ward/Dilmore 4400 book I saw William Leisner and Allyn Gibson.

And Geoffrey Thorne was also a part of our little golf foursome in that book. I know there were a few other Trek writer types Tuckerized in that book, as well, though specifics escape me at the moment.

As for Trek fic, an Ensign Leisner appeared in A Time to Sow/Harvest, and there was almost an Ambassador Rensiel in A Singular Destiny, before his scene got trimmed.

 

[ronny]

As for Trek fic, an Ensign Leisner appeared in A Time to Sow/Harvest, and there was almost an Ambassador Rensiel in A Singular Destiny, before his scene got trimmed.

Man, I hate character destruction.

 

[Claudia]

The casualty report in ASD has quite a few familiar names, too, especially the first names, listed on the 3rd page, practically all in a row: Una, Christopher, Allyn, Margaret. And I like to read the quadruple Mak as Mack... sort of a revenge to have to clean up all this mess, so killing him off once didn't suffice?!? And wasn't Margaret Mitchell the author of Gone with the Wind?

 

[captcalhoun]

Kevin Ryan also had a ship named for him in New Frontier's opening four-parter.

there's also an Ensign Margerat Clark in Spectre.

 

[Dayton Ward]

In the Ward/Dilmore 4400 book I saw William Leisner and Allyn Gibson.

And Geoffrey Thorne was also a part of our little golf foursome in that book. I know there were a few other Trek writer types Tuckerized in that book, as well, though specifics escape me at the moment.

Dave Galanter and Scott Pearson, off the top of my head. There might have been a couple of others, but I'm blanking at the moment.

There also are a couple nods to Trek sprinkled in there, a subtle Homicide reference, and a few other things.

 

[PaulSimpson]

In the Ward/Dilmore 4400 book I saw William Leisner and Allyn Gibson.

And Geoffrey Thorne was also a part of our little golf foursome in that book. I know there were a few other Trek writer types Tuckerized in that book, as well, though specifics escape me at the moment.

Dave Galanter and Scott Pearson, off the top of my head. There might have been a couple of others, but I'm blanking at the moment.

There also are a couple nods to Trek sprinkled in there, a subtle Homicide reference, and a few other things.

And you've chucked some dreadful editor into an upcoming story...!

 

[Dayton Ward]

^ Oh, and that reminds me. Amy Sisson gets a mention....uh....somewhere.

 

[David Mack]

^ Unfortunately, the ball gag prevented her character from actually having a line of dialogue. But those gestures you described were hilarious.

 

[Rat Boy]

In that same section of The Genesis Wave, Book One, look for Dr. Glenn Hauman.

Basically, chapter 14 of that book was a rush job I was hired for, and my "cameo" name drop was my version of a byline (as noted in an editorial acknowledgment at the end of the book). That gig led to me being hired to write The Starfleet Survival Guide, and from there I was invited to pitch to the fiction lines (starting with eBooks and later graduating to paperbacks).

And sixty-three million dead. Can't forget that.

 

[Lonemagpie]

See, I'm only a character in Babylon 5 lit- you may draw your own conclusions!

 

[David Mack]

And sixty-three million dead. Can't forget that.

Not million — billion. Don't short-change me.