Question about wanting to write

[Admiral James Kirk]

Regret and worry are not synonymous.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Regret and worry are not synonymous.

You can worry about regret. (And threads that go weird.)

I do.

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

Regret and worry are not synonymous.

You can worry about regret. (And threads that go weird.)

I do.

But I never said Dean did. This thread went waaaay off track.

 

[Daddy Todd]

I wrote Star Trek under seven different names... I’ll give you Dean Wesley Smith and Sandy Schofield. The other five you Trek buffs can figure out if you want to waste time for a trivia contest.

Interesting.

Anyone wanna play? I'll bid J. Noah Kym. And maybe Anonymous? There just aren't that many Treklit writers who are otherwise completely unknown. I suppose it's possible he ghost-wrote for a known writer.

Oh, and D.W. "Prof" Smith. Though that one barely counts as a different name.

 

[Greg Cox]

I suppose it's possible he ghost-wrote for a known writer.
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I'm honestly not aware of that ever happening where Trek is concerned.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Better to just do work-for-hire or media under a pen name from the start. Trust me on this one.

Well I'm fucked, then.

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

I suppose it's possible he ghost-wrote for a known writer.
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I'm honestly not aware of that ever happening where Trek is concerned.

What about the whole Music of the Spheres/Probe fiasco? Didn't Gene DeWeese end up doing a ghost rewrite of that book?

 

[Greg Cox]

I suppose it's possible he ghost-wrote for a known writer.
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I'm honestly not aware of that ever happening where Trek is concerned.

What about the whole Music of the Spheres/Probe fiasco? Didn't Gene DeWeese end up doing a ghost rewrite of that book?

You're right. I had forgotten about that.

 

[Relayer1]

Better to just do work-for-hire or media under a pen name from the start. Trust me on this one.

Well I'm fucked, then.

I'd consider publishing as L. Magpie in future to avoid confusion with that 'typecast' McIntee chap...

 

[Endgame]

At a sufficient level of virtuosity, McIntee is indistinguishable from Magpie. Also, if you need glasses to read and can't find them.

 

[Greg Cox]

Back in the eighties, I sold a story to AMAZING as "Bryan Gregory Stephenson," mostly as a private joke with my housemates. We invented "Bryan" at a Christmas party one night after maybe too much liquid celebration. The idea was that we would all write stories as "Bryan" and become rich and famous. Alas, Bryan's only other publication was an entry in one of the "Dark and Stormy Night" bad-writing collections.

I swear, it seemed like a good idea at the time . . . .

(And I have a female pseudonym all picked out just in case I ever end up writing romance novels or erotica or whatever.)

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

Dean blogged about his Trek books yesterday. As usual it's a damn fine read.

 

[Thrawn]

I really don't think that the first SCE book was the longest one in the series.

Sorry to be nitpicky, though - yes, that was a damn fine read