Trek writers original works

[n3aak]

I haven't read through this entire thread, so forgive me if it's been discussed, but has anyone read any of the stuff written by Trek actors (usually written with a partner/ghost writer). I know I liked Nichelle Nichols and Margaret Wander Bonanno's Saturn's Child. Apparently,George Takei co-wrote a book called Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe back in the 70's. Of course there's the Tek Wars books from Shatner and apparently John de Lancie wrote a scifi book at some point?

Are there any others? Anything good? I know Wallace Shawn has done some literary stuff.

 

[Stevil2001]

I haven't read through this entire thread, so forgive me if it's been discussed, but has anyone read any of the stuff written by Trek actors (usually written with a partner/ghost writer). I know I liked Nichelle Nichols and Margaret Wander Bonanno's Saturn's Child. Apparently,George Takei co-wrote a book called Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe back in the 70's. Of course there's the Tek Wars books from Shatner and apparently John de Lancie wrote a scifi book at some point?

Are there any others? Anything good? I know Wallace Shawn has done some literary stuff.

I too read Saturn's Child. I think there's a sequel, but I never read it.

James Doohan co-wrote a series of military sf adventures with S. M. Stirling called The Flight Engineer. I read the first, but didn't think much of it. The cover has a big picture of him as he looked in the 1990s on it even though the main character is described completely differently!

Armin Shimerman co-wrote a fantasy trilogy about John Dee in space called The Merchant Prince. I haven't read those.

LeVar Burton wrote an sf novel called Aftermath. Again, I haven't read it.

EDIT: I would have told you I had no idea John de Lancie wrote a novel, but as soon as I saw the cover, I knew I had: https://www.amazon.com/Soldier-Light-John-Lancie/dp/0671035959/ I must have gotten it from the library, but I don't remember it at all. Looks like Pocket published Soldiers of Light, so they could even use the actual TNG logo.

The way these covers work in the actors' faces is kind of hilarious.

 

[n3aak]

Hahahaha, Oh my goodness, John de Lancie's face there! <3

 

[n3aak]

I too read Saturn's Child. I think there's a sequel, but I never read it.

James Doohan co-wrote a series of military sf adventures with S. M. Stirling called The Flight Engineer. I read the first, but didn't think much of it. The cover has a big picture of him as he looked in the 1990s on it even though the main character is described completely differently!

Armin Shimerman co-wrote a fantasy trilogy about John Dee in space called The Merchant Prince. I haven't read those.

LeVar Burton wrote an sf novel called Aftermath. Again, I haven't read it.

EDIT: I would have told you I had no idea John de Lancie wrote a novel, but as soon as I saw the cover, I knew I had: https://www.amazon.com/Soldier-Light-John-Lancie/dp/0671035959/ I must have gotten it from the library, but I don't remember it at all. Looks like Pocket published Soldiers of Light, so they could even use the actual TNG logo.

The way these covers work in the actors' faces is kind of hilarious.[/]

https://www.amazon.com/Abductors-Conspiracy-Jonathan-Frakes/dp/0312862083

Looks like Jonathan Frakes wrote one with Dean Wesley Smith, too.

 

[n3aak]

I screwed something up there, formattingwise, sorry.

I was trying to say only this:

https://www.amazon.com/Abductors-Conspiracy-Jonathan-Frakes/dp/0312862083

Looks like Jonathan Frakes wrote one with Dean Wesley Smith, too.

 

[DrCorby]

I haven't read through this entire thread, so forgive me if it's been discussed, but has anyone read any of the stuff written by Trek actors (usually written with a partner/ghost writer). I know I liked Nichelle Nichols and Margaret Wander Bonanno's Saturn's Child. Apparently,George Takei co-wrote a book called Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe back in the 70's. Of course there's the Tek Wars books from Shatner and apparently John de Lancie wrote a scifi book at some point?

Are there any others? Anything good? I know Wallace Shawn has done some literary stuff.

I remember reading Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe by George Takei and Robert Asprin a long time ago, but I don't remember anything about it.

A couple of recurring DS9 actors wrote some well-received novels:
> A Stitch in Time by Andrew Robinson (Garak)
> The Left Hand of Destiny (2-book series) by J.G.Hertzler (Martok) and Jeffrey Lang

On the more-or-less non-fiction side, there are:
>DS9 producer Ira Steven Behr wrote Legends of the Ferengi (w/ Robert Hewitt Wolfe) and The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.
>Star Trek Cookbook by Ethan Phillips (Neelix) and William J Birnes

 

[JD]

A couple weeks ago I saw that RS Belcher has a second Brotherhood of the Wheel book coming out, King of the Road, I'm assuming since you edited the first one that you edited this one too @Greg Cox?

 

[Christopher]

Incidentally, it's weird how the ads on this site follow some sort of algorithm based on my browsing of other sites. Ever since I looked up the pages for my books Only Superhuman and Among the Wild Cybers on Barnes & Noble's site a while back, the TrekBBS keeps giving me banner ads highlighting those books and inviting me to click to "Learn more" about them. I don't need to learn more about books I wrote, darn it! It's really odd.

I mean, I've seen the same thing happen with Amazon, showing me ads based on what I've already looked at there, and I don't get the logic of it. The point of advertising, supposedly, is to let people know about products they wouldn't otherwise be aware of, to create an interest where none existed. But if someone's already looked something up on Amazon or wherever, then they're already interested in it and may have even already bought it, in which case advertising it to them is entirely redundant.

 

[JD]

Yeah, that's bugged me when I've accidentally clicked on stuff I wasn't interested in and then kept getting adds for it on here for a while.

 

[Christopher]

Yeah, that's bugged me when I've accidentally clicked on stuff I wasn't interested in and then kept getting adds for it on here for a while.

Yeah, but at least you don't have the experience of the ads trying to sell you your own creations.

 

[n3aak]

Incidentally, it's weird how the ads on this site follow some sort of algorithm based on my browsing of other sites. Ever since I looked up the pages for my books Only Superhuman and Among the Wild Cybers on Barnes & Noble's site a while back, the TrekBBS keeps giving me banner ads highlighting those books and inviting me to click to "Learn more" about them. I don't need to learn more about books I wrote, darn it! It's really odd.

I mean, I've seen the same thing happen with Amazon, showing me ads based on what I've already looked at there, and I don't get the logic of it. The point of advertising, supposedly, is to let people know about products they wouldn't otherwise be aware of, to create an interest where none existed. But if someone's already looked something up on Amazon or wherever, then they're already interested in it and may have even already bought it, in which case advertising it to them is entirely redundant.

I sell t-shirts as a side-gig and am inundated with ads for my own shirts...

 

[Greg Cox]

A couple weeks ago I saw that RS Belcher has a second Brotherhood of the Wheel book coming out, King of the Road, I'm assuming since you edited the first one that you edited this one too @Greg Cox?

Yep, I edited KING OF THE ROAD as well. Thanks for asking!

It's a really fun book, btw: hobos, evil clowns, and a werewolf biker chick.

 

[JD]

I noticed the cover for King of the Road says it's set in the Nightwise world. I was just curious, how connected are the two series?

 

[Greg Cox]

The cover says that? Where?

Technically, The Brotherhood is a spin-off of the NIGHTWISE books, since the Brotherhood made a cameo in a single chapter of the first NIGHTWISE book, which puts them in the same universe. But the series are largely independent. You can read either series without ever reading the other. There are no shared plot threads or anything.

EDIT: Just checked the Amazon listing. I don't see anything about NIGHTWISE on the cover, but I do see that Amazon is hyping the book as being "Set in the NIGHTWISE universe . . ."

Technically correct, but misleading. Let me see if I can fix that . . . .

 

[JD]

Oops, it was the description on Google Play and the Kindle Store not the cover, it starts with this bolded bit.

Set in R.S. Belcher's urban fantasy Nightwise universe, the Brotherhood of the Wheel returns to explore the haunted byways and truck stops of the U.S. Interstate Highway System in King of the Road

 

[James Swallow]

Hey folks; just to let all my North American readers know - the US edition of Nomad, the first volume in my Marc Dane action-thriller series will be hitting your shores from Forge Books on Tuesday next week, so please check it out!

I'm very excited to be bringing these books to a new audience, and I have my former Star Trek editor Marco Palmieri to thank for shepherding them through the process at Tor/Forge. More details here, including an excerpt: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765395115

 

[Greg Cox]

Oops, it was the description on Google Play and the Kindle Store not the cover, it starts with this bolded bit.

Thanks for getting back to me. I was a little worried there.

Already made some phone calls. That copy should be changed by Friday.

THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE WHEEL is its own thing, not part of the NIGHTWISE series.

 

[JD]

Oh, your welcome. I had no idea that was a mistake, although I was a bit surprised that it wasn't mentioned anywhere in the blurb for the first book. Now I guess I know why.

Hey folks; just to let all my North American readers know - the US edition of Nomad, the first volume in my Marc Dane action-thriller series will be hitting your shores from Forge Books on Tuesday next week, so please check it out!

I'm very excited to be bringing these books to a new audience, and I have my former Star Trek editor Marco Palmieri to thank for shepherding them through the process at Tor/Forge. More details here, including an excerpt: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765395115

And it's been added to my Google Play wish list. It actually comes out the day before my birthday, and right now I'm thinking at least some of whatever money/giftcards I get will probably go towards Nomad and Brotherhood of the Wheel.

 

[James Swallow]

Just an FYI for all my readers - Ghost, the third novel in my Marc Dane thriller series is out now in paperback in the UK (link) & this new edition includes a preview of Shadow, book 4 in the series due out in 2019.

Also next year, the second Marc Dane novel Exile will be released in the USA by Tor/Forge (link)...

 

[KRAD]

I've got two original novels coming out in the early part of 2019:

Mermaid Precinct, the fifth novel in my fantasy/mystery series, as Lieutenants Danthres Tresyllione and Torin ban Wyvald must solve the murder of the legendary Pirate Queen. This will be published by my new publisher, eSpec Books, who also reissued all the previous "Precinct" books: Dragon Precinct, Unicorn Precinct, Goblin Precinct, Gryphon Precinct, and Tales from Dragon Precinct. (The new editions of the novels also have bonus short stories. Check this blog entry for more details.)

A Furnace Sealed kicks off a new urban fantasy series about a nice Jewish boy from the Bronx who hunts monsters. Bram Gold is a Courser, a hunter-for-hire who deals with supernatural happenings, mystical occurrences, and things that go booga-booga in the night. Immortals in the Bronx are being killed, and binding spells are coming unraveled, and Bram has to figure out why before disaster strikes. This will be out from WordFire Press.

On top of that, my Alien novel Isolation will be out from Titan in July. It's about 2/3 an adaptation of the 2014 videogame, and 1/3 Ripley family backstory.

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