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.....