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Derek Tyler Attico Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
Derek Tyler Attico is the final interview for my series before I head off to Shore Leave, this one was recorded about a week before the show. We start with a discussion about his recent nomination for a Scribe award by the IAMTW for the recently released Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko in the in universe series of autobiographies. The other four books where from two authors who each wrote two books, so we talk about who he would write about if he were able to do another book in the series. He’s done a good bit of work with Modiphius on their Star Trek line of RPG books.
We then discuss Shore Leave and his history with the show, they recently released their program, and holy moly I was not prepared for how much they’re going to be doing in just three days. Derek talked me through his schedule and I’m hoping to catch at least one of his panels.
Our discussion about Galloping Around the Cosmos led to a fun conversation about what brought him to the franchise, specifically the episode “The Devil in the Dark”, a story of fear, hope, and trying to communicate.
He’s currently doing a master class series for Tallaght Academy of Sequential Art on story telling, which brought us to a conversation about his time in a class that was taught by comic industry legend Dennis O’Neil and how their relationship lead to Attico learning about the comic industry in general and how to deal with hitting writers blocks.
He currently has an exhibit at the American Writers Museum on Role Playing, a very cool accomplishment!
Also, I didn’t figure out his shirt until about half way through the video. It’s clever and now I want one.
Derek Tyler Attico can be found on his website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Jim Johnson Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
Jim Johnson has been working on Star Trek properties since at least 2004 with three stories in three different Strange New Worlds collections and more recently as a project manager for Mõdiphiüs, pronounced Moe-diphius, not Mod-iphius as I said for the first half of the video until I was correctly corrected. I was able to speak to him due to some introductions by Derek Tyler Attico, and I think is going to open up another group of writers to talk to about their involvement in Trek and has even given me a few ideas for future content on Twitch.
We open the talk with me drooling over his Blue Bricks Defiant he has on a shelf behind him, then swap a couple “million dollar ideas” that are sure to have us in the two comma club soon enough. We move on to have a great discussion on how exceptionally friendly everyone is on the creative side of Trek books and how willing they are to help people out with interviews and games and how lucky we are to be involved in the fandom.
What prompted me to post this interview before Shore Leave is Kelli Fitzpatrick is bringing the new second edition core books with her to the show. Up to this point, I’ve been blissfully unfamiliar with IRL RPG games, as most of my RPG experiences are PC based with minimal human interactions. The second edition is officially launching at GenCon, but those of us at Shore Leave are going to get to see it a week early.
As a newcomer to the RPG space, I had to ask, what exactly is a second edition and how does it effect the content that’s been previously released? Jim gives a great breakdown of the hows and whys, and essentially the original game was good but they had a ton of content come out since the original core book came out, so some tinkering was in order to make it all align better.
There’s a conversation on how different reviews for literary books are from RPG books, the project management methodologies of Mõdiphiüs, the process of choosing authors for the books, and how content is approved by Paramount.
We wrap things up by mentioning that Mõdiphiüs is currently running a 50% off sale on both the US and UK sites, the second edition is up for preorder, and there’s going to be a starter kit that’s going to be a great entry point to the game system for people like me that are intimidated by those big gorgeous books.
Mõdiphiüs can be found on Facebook and Discord.
Jim Johnson can found on his personal website, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube.
Out Today: “Star Trek: Defiant #17”
Out today: “Star Trek: Defiant #17“, by Christopher Cantwell.
Enter a brand-new arc and the beginning of a new era for the disavowed, mercenary crew of the U.S.S. Defiant!
Political corruption ensues as Sela and her father, General Revo, leverage the imprisoned Defiant crewmates to kidnap the Romulan praetor and chairman of Tal Shiar Intelligence to advance their sinister plot to take over Romulus…
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Aaron Rosenberg Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
Aaron Rosenberg has been going to Shore Leave for about 15 years. He’s based in NYC and is among a group of authors that would routinely get together for lunch and most of them were already going to the show and they convinced him to go to the show. One of the cooler parts of our conversation was the bit were we talked about the science stuff that happens at the show, everything from bottle rockets to astronomy (and the Hubble team is going to be there this year!). He’s written for many familiar properties including Warhammer, Starcraft, Stargate: Atlantis, Eureka, X-Files, Deadlands, and the one that owns my heart: Star Trek, specifically the SCE series.
He’s published over 54 novels, has 70 some odd RPG credits, 12 children’s books, 12 educational books, and over 65 short stories. He’s not just a writer though, he’s also been doing book layout as a day job on an off again for about 20 years. We spend an appropriately long time talking about the importance of fonts, layout choices, and layout designs. He first started as an RPG writers, but doesn’t currently have any work with the ongoing Modiphius series, but did do work for Last Unicorn when they had the license.
His most recent book is Cases by Candlelight, a collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures by some pretty familiar names. Coming soon will be his new series “BEO: Bureau of Eldrich Oversight” in which an agent of the Bureau is stationed in a backwater station, is angry at being put on the back burner, but then as things tend to go in stories like these, not everything is what it appears.
We talk about his membership in the IAMTW and how the organization came to be, and that the association is now publishing their own series of anthologies, written by the talented members.
Aaron Rosenberg can be found on his Website, Facebook, and Twitter.
Out Today: “Star Trek: Lost to Eternity”
Out today: “Star Trek: Lost to Eternity“, by Greg Cox.
A thrilling new Star Trek “movie era” novel from New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox!
Three Eras. Three Mysteries. One Ancient Enemy?
2024: Almost forty years ago, marine biologist Gillian Armstrong stormed away from her dream job at San Francisco’s Cetacean Institute—and was never seen or heard from again. Now a new true crime podcast has reopened that cold case, but investigator Melinda Silver has no idea that her search for the truth about Gillian’s disappearance will ultimately stretch across time and space—and attract the attention of a ruthless obsessive with his own secret agenda.
2268: The USS Enterprise’s five-year mission is interrupted when Captain James T. Kirk and his crew set out to recover an abducted Federation scientist whose classified secrets are being sought by the Klingons as well. The trail leads to a barbaric world off limits to both Starfleet and the Klingon Empire—and an ageless mastermind on a quest for eternity.
2292: The Osori, an ancient alien species, has finally agreed to establish relations with its much younger neighbors: the Federation, the Klingons, and the Romulans. A joint mission involving ships from all three powers, including the Enterprise-A, turns explosive when one of the Osori envoys is apparently killed. Each side blames the others, but the truth lies buried deep, nearly three hundred years in the past…
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Picard’s Academy: Commit No Mistakes TPB”
Out today: “Star Trek: Picard’s Academy: Commit No Mistakes TPB“, by Sam Maggs.
Go back to academy days with one of Starfleet’s most celebrated officers: Jean-Luc Picard! A new collected series by New York Times best-selling author, Sam Maggs.
Before becoming the Federation’s finest, Jean-Luc was an ordinary student at Starfleet Academy with sights on the stars. His path forward was charted: blow his classmates out of the water on the infamous Evasive Maneuvers exam and graduate early. But there’s a detail Cadet Picard hadn’t factored into his plan: the exam was a group project and he’d need to make friends with, ugh, people if he stood a chance at passing.
Federation starships aren’t run by a party of one, after all. During the training exercise, Picard accidentally puts the lives of himself and two of his classmates—Doq and Marty—in danger!
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David Mack Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
I thought I was all wrapped up with interviews and conversations with Star Trek authors, but as the posts started going up I started getting responses back from authors that were busy with life when my original invites went out (the nerve!), so here’s a surprise one with David Mack, author of the recently released Star Trek: Picard: Firewall. This will be his 21st year going to Shore Leave, so as a veteran of the convention circuit he shared great opinions on Shore Leave specifically and the larger convention system that wasn’t necessarily doing him many favors.
In 2022 he received the IAMTW Grand Master award and this year he had two stories nominated for the 2024 Scribe Awards. There’s a number of great stories on that list and he’s happy to be included with them. He’s also happy that the audience he was aiming for with Firewall found the book and that it struck a cord with them.
About half the conversation is discussing the confusion between David Mack (the artist) and David Alan Mack (the author) and how the disambiguous page for DavidMack.com came about. It’s a great story that’s right up my alley as I was a big fan of the artist when he was doing Daredevil work, then came to know the author from his Trek work and had a moment of confusion when I figured out they were different people. Couple all that with my love for making websites and maintaining them, whew.
Mr. Mack has some good final advice for a first time convention going person like me: check in early and attend the “Meet The Pros” event, which echoes the advice that I’ve received from others.
David Alan Mack (the author) can be found at his website, Facebook, Mastodon, and Twitter .
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Robert Greenberger Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
I’m going to Shore Leave 44, and while Robert Greenberger isn’t going to be able to attend, he’s been to so many of them that Howard Weinstein put me in touch to talk about the show and so much more. He’s done a ton of Trek work and has worked franchises like Predator, Planet of the Apes, Green Hornet, Zorro, After Earth and a soon to be released 400 page “Definitive History” of Superman, written with fellow former Trek author Edward Gross.
I ask him about “Q’s Guide To The Continuum” and why it hasn’t been released as a digital book yet. While there’s no good answers, his are about the best we’re going to get on the topic. That brought us to how ebook sales peaked a few years ago and audio books have eclipsed digital sales, something that surprised me.
We also spoke about IDW’s current output and how happy we’ve been with it. I think I’m eventually going to want to track down authors / artists / editors for that series and see if I can get them to talk about those projects.
He ends the call by giving me fantastic advise on how to plan my trip to Shore Leave. Now I think I have a complete list of things to do or look out for, the first of which is to check out the program guide for the show and make a wish list of what I want to do.
Robert Greenberger can be found on his website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Bob Newhart, Legendary TV Star, Dies at 94
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Keith R.A. DeCandido Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
This is the longest of the interviews, we started talked and just straight up didn’t stop for another hour and a half later, there was just so much to talk about and Mr DeCandido is as affable of a person that I could ever want to talk to. It helped that he’s been going to Shore Leave since 1992 when he went with the intent to interview authors and actors at the show, and ultimately did a ton of interviews. He skipped a few years and returned in 2000 and was very much an official Star Trek author by that point. He’s been to pretty much every show since then and at once point even stood in as a backup singer for George Takei during a musical number. He’s even part of a band that plays at most of the shows, but due to the schedule change won’t be at the show this year (boooo).
Here’s Keith in the background during a previous performance:
We spoke about his next book, Feat of Clay, which is current in the Kickstarter phase. It’s already hit it’s goals, but it’s always nice to see more support come in for it.
During the wild west days of digital readers, before the Kindle came along, Star Trek had The Starfleet Corps of Engineers, a series of novella length stories that would come out on a regular basis. It wasn’t necessarily a subscription service, but you could count on a new one being out frequently. It was unfortunately canceled right before the Kindle took off and we have a great conversation about how cool it would be to have something like this again, especially with modern subscription services (Patreon, substack, Webtoons, etc) being generally accepted.
There’s a ton of other stuff discussed ranging from writer’s revenue streams, the publishers he’s worked for, the licensed properties he’s worked for (including but not limited to Resident Evil, Supernatural, Farscape), and the next collection of Star Trek short fiction that’s due out in October.
This was a fantastic conversation that’s worth your time!
Keith R.A. DeCandido can be found at his Website, on Facebook, Instagram, Patreon, and Twitter.
Scott Pearson Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
Had a lovely talk with Scott Pearson a few weeks ago, and I mention this in the intro to the video, but we were having some pretty rough audio issues for a while here, but we eventually figured it out and go on with the conversation. As with the other interviews, the entry to the talk is Shore Leave 44. He’s been going to the show since 2006, right after his second Strange New Worlds story was published, and has been trying to make it to the show ever since.
He was able to offer some great insight into working with licensed properties (no making up new family members in books, only movies and tv!), and we briefly discuss the fact that he’s one of the few Trek authors that has books that were only digitally published and never made it to paper.
He’s currently doing a Hammer rewatch with a write up of each movie. He’s a fan of the classic monster films, Dracula, and Frankenstein. I tried a few times to talk him into doing a mash up of classic horror icons and Trek, we’ll see how far that idea gets!
Scott can be found at his own site, Facebook, and Twitter.
Kelli Fitzpatrick Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
As you may have heard, I’m headed to Shore Leave 44 and I’m interviewing authors that have been going to the show and have knowledge to impart. I just got off a call with Kelli Fitzpatrick, who’s been going to shore leave since 2017, just a year after her debut as a Star Trek author in the 2016 edition of Strange New Worlds. She’s attended many years of Shore Leave, including the virtual editions but was happy to get back to the in person events.
We spoke about her upcoming Captain Marvel: Declassified book, due out in March of 2025, and talked about how complex the character’s story has been in the comics, and how she’s taken that complicated set of stories and found the common throughline.
She was recently included in Women Take the Conn, a series of essays on Trek that had a novel take on academic essays: pick one female character from TOS and take a deep dive into what makes them tick.
Fun fact about Kelli is that she’s been working with Modiphius to create content for their series of Trek RPG books, both behind the scenes and on the printed page. I’ve still not been able to find a group to play this with, but the single player version of the game was recently released and it sounds like it might be my route into the game.
Her next couple books due to be out? A Space Western and an actual honest to goodness traditional western story that connects to her love of astronomy.
Kelli can be found on Facebook, Twitter, Blue Sky, or even on her own website.
Greg Cox Interview With StarTrekBookClub.com
I’m going to Shore Leave!
I’m interviewing authors before I go
Greg Cox Is The Second Guest
I had no technical issues and everything went fantastic!
Mr Greg Cox has been writing Star Trek books for over 30 years with over 19 novels published with Trek and has been writing in many other franchise playgrounds including CSI, Buffy, Green Hornet, Warehouse 13, The Librarians, Batman, Planet of the Apes, and Godzilla were among the ones mentioned in this interview, but there’s surely more!
He has a book coming out later this month, Star Trek: Lost to Eternity, a 130,000 word story involving three different time periods all working over connecting mysteries. He helped give Una Chin Riley her name, which one of the few bits of canon that originated in the books and made it to the screen, as verified by Anson Mount himself.
The tail end of this interview has a fair bit of interesting setup for the forthcoming book, I’ve already preordered it myself, so why haven’t you?
mid-Month Star Trek Book Deals For July 2024
As this is the second month that I’m doing a mid-month sales update, I’ve decided to that I’m not going to include the books that are in the month long sale, nor am I going to include the books that are still on sale from last month. Here’s the 23 books that are new to the $0.99 – $1.99 price point:
Star Trek: 77 Twilight’s End
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Long Mirage
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Time Lock
Star Trek: Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: Live by the Code
Star Trek: New Frontier: The Returned Part 1
Star Trek: New Frontier: The Returned Part 2
Star Trek: New Frontier: The Returned Part 3
Star Trek: Spectre
Star Trek: Stargazer: Book 1: Gauntlet
Star Trek: The Face of the Unknown
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Cold Equations: Book 1 The Persistence of Memory
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Cold Equations: Book 2 Silent Weapons
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Death in Winter
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Genesis Wave: Book 1
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Genesis Wave: Book 2
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Genesis Wave: Book 3
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Hearts and Minds
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Kahless
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Light Fantastic
Star Trek: The Original Series: Elusive Salvation
Star Trek: The Original Series: From History’s Shadow
Star Trek: Voyager: 10 Bless The Beasts
Star Trek: Voyager: 5 Incident At Arbuk
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