Who can tell me about former Trek Lit author Simon Hawke?

[Use of Time]

Obscure thread I know but I recently read through a couple of his numbered novels from the 90's and found them exceptional in comparison to a lot of the other numbered novels of that era. It looks like he wrote three novels for the Trek universe and then moved on to some other serialized Sci-Fi/Fantasy work.

Kind of falls into that Treklit category of writers between one and done and mainstay but I thought The Romulan Prize and The Patrian Transgression to be pretty good.

Any of the writers ever interacted with this guy or met him?

 

[Stevil2001]

Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion has no information about him because Jeff Ayers was unable to interview him, and unfortunately the big flaw of that otherwise good book is the total lack of non-interview research Ayers did.

 

[Snaploud]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Hawke

 

[Use of Time]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Hawke

Yes I am familiar with wikipedia. Thank you.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I haven't read much of Hawke's work. I liked his Shakespearean mysteries.

 

[James Swallow]

I enjoyed his TimeWars series, those were good fun...

 

[shanejayell]

I loved the Wizard books too.

 

[tomswift2002]

Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion has no information about him because Jeff Ayers was unable to interview him, and unfortunately the big flaw of that otherwise good book is the total lack of non-interview research Ayers did.

I always got the feeling that Ayers was trying to do a "DVD audio commentary" for each book; I think the interview approach was good. It's not like he had many people to interview about each book, unlike with the episodes where there are the actors, script writers, etc.

 

[Daddy Todd]

There's a Wikipedia page about Simon Hawke (born Nicholas Yermakov) as well as a page on ISFDB. It looks like he hasn't published anything since 2003.

 

[AdmiralMike]

He was a guest at a Convention in Fargo, ND about 15 years ago or so. He came off as a total a$$hole. He had this "better than you" attitude the whole weekend. He also billed himself as a comedian so he was hired as the banquet entertainment. His set was so filthy that people walked out of the banquet and the convention. He used foul language and adult situations, with children in the room! We were thoroughly disappointed! That was the last I heard of, or cared to hear of him.

 

[EddyDrama]

The only Star Trek The Next Generation -novel that was translated to finnish language is Blaze of Glory (Kunnian Hehku) by Simon Hawke.