Eating Authors: Michael Jan Friedman
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Rounding out the month of July here at EATING AUTHORS is Michael Jan Friedman, who in my opinion has written one of the best Klingon books in the grand and vast history of the hundreds of Star Trek novels that define such a huge segment of the media tie-in universe - and let’s just take a moment to acknowledge that he’s written several dozen of them! But that’s just one facet of Mike’s work.
With sixty-some books to his credit, Mike has landed on the New York Times Best Seller list eleven times. He’s written for comic books (nearly two hundred of them) and for television (an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, but I don’t hold that against him). He’s also one of the co-founders of Crazy 8 Press, and his contemporary fantasy, Fight The Gods, was one of their first releases back in 2011. More recently he’s been crafting mysteries set in the 21st century of the Aztec Empire of an alternate history. How’s that for mind-blowingly original?
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