In a fit of mischief one evening last fall while writing That Which Divides, I joked on Twitter that I was going to insert a joke about the Starfleet Academy Titanium Spork, currently sold by the awesome gang at ThinkGeekNaturally, somebody from that august organization, that being my buddy and brother in geekery, John Frasier, caught that idle ( Read more... )

Okay, show of hands: which of you folks are into conspiracies? Do you have just a passing fancy for them? Are you amused by all the hoopla such "controversies" stir up, or are you one of the ones stirring up stuff? Do you cut yourself every time you try to apply Occam's Razor? If so, then have I got the book for you.

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With the final novel of the Star Trek: Vanguard series, Storming Heaven, due to be released in just a couple of weeks, series co-creator David Mack has plunged into the depths of his archives (not to mention raiding a couple of our file cabinets, too), to provide readers and fans of the books with some extra special treats.

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It's been busy the last week or so, with all sorts of announcements about this or that, so it seemed right to offer a few bits of shameless whoring reminders about what's going down here at the Manor and at other points of interest ( Read more... )

With That Which Divides starting to show up in stores and its "official" publication date being tomorrow, Christopher Jones over at Trek.fm took some time to conduct a short interview with me about the book and my other Trek writing, along with a few other topics that managed to pop up along the way. It was also one of the cooler interviews I've ( Read more... )

Earlier this week, StarTrek.com asked me to answer a few questions about That Which Divides for a feature to run on the site this weekend during the lead-up to the book's release. I was sent the questions and asked if I could fashion them as a teaser of sorts for the book without the usual "Q&A" format. The result?

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Friend, fellow word slinger and Star Trek: Vanguard co-creator David Mack has unleashed a beast of sorts.

In an entry posted to his own blog earlier this evening, Mr. Mack has announced a contest to honor the publication of Storming Heaven, the series' eighth and final book. As we march toward the book's release, he's hatched a plot to give ( Read more... )

Since a good chunk of my writing revolves around Star Trek, I often get asked about other properties for which I'd like to write. I've rambled about that before, but another question I recently got in e-Mail was what other tie-ins, if any, I like to read in my leisure time ( Read more... )

A box from UPS was sitting on the porch yesterday evening when I returned home from the library. When I opened said box, what did I find? A whole buncha That Which Divides!


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It's been a while since I had anything new to report about That Which Divides, my forthcoming Star Trek original series novel which is set to start hitting shelves toward the latter part of this month. Apparently seeing fit to take a bit of pity on me, the good folk at Simon and Schuster have been kind enough to post the first chapter on their ( Read more... )