(no image available) Happy birthday to Ian Spelling! Ian R. Spelling is a freelance journalist and entertainment writer for numerous Star Trek related interviews for magazines, websites, and newspapers. He served as the editor of StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek site, from 2010 to 2019. Check out the Ian Spelling author page to view more […]
() Happy birthday to Lorraine Anderson! Lorraine Anderson grew up on a free-range chicken ranch in Cupertino, California, in the days when the Santa Clara Valley was still known as the Valley of Heart’s Delight. (It’s now known as Silicon Valley.) She freelances as a writer and editor in Corvallis, Oregon. Check out the Lorraine […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Jean Lorrah! Jean Lorrah is the creator of the Savage Empire series and co-author of the Sime~Gen series created by Jacqueline Lichtenberg. She is also a screenwriter, with an optioned screenplay, Coal for Christmas, written with Lois Wickstrom. Be sure to look for her Nessie’s Grotto books with Lois, […]
(Image Credit: Gage Skidmore) Happy birthday to Mark A. Altman! Mark A. Altman is a writer/producer, author, and comic book writer having written a number of issues for Malibu Comics, including the entire Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Maquis: Soldier of Peace and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Hearts and Minds series […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Robert Hewitt Wolfe! Robert Hewitt Wolfe is a writer of many Star Trek episodes. His first episode was the Next Generation episode “A Fistful of Datas”, which helped him get a job as a writer on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Check out the Robert Hewitt Wolfe author page […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Brad Strickland! William Bradley “Brad” Strickland is a Star Trek author. He was born in New Holland, Georgia, and still lives in the state. Since he began writing, he has published over sixty novels, and more than sixty short stories and poems. He is the husband of his frequent […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to John Gregory Betancourt! Betancourt was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Philip Betancourt, a notable archeologist, and expert on Bronze Age Greece. His younger brother, Michael, is a well-known critical theorist and cultural historian. As a child, Betancourt was taken on digs in Greece by his father. His first […]
(Photo by Keith McDuffee https://www.flickr.com/photos/gudlyf/5974908338/) Happy birthday to Ira Steven Behr! Ira Steven Behr was executive producer of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as well as a writer of several episodes. He was also a producer on Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1989 to 1990. With writing partners Robert Hewitt Wolfe and, later, Hans […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Daffyd ab Hugh! Dafydd ab Hugh, born David Friedman in Los Angeles, is a US science fiction author who wrote several Star Trek books. He is the child of a secular Jewish father and a Welsh-descended mother who converted to Judaism on marriage. The name “Dafydd ab Hugh” is […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Carmen Carter! Carmen Carter is a Star Trek novelist. She began writing fantasy and science fiction in 1984. Her first Star Trek novel, Dreams of the Raven was published in 1987, and since then she authored three Next Generation novels. Check out the Carmen Carter author page to view […]
() Happy birthday to Ryan North! Ryan North’s recent work includes the non-fiction books How To Take Over The World and How To Invent Everything, the semi-fictional graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, and the so-far-fictional Fantastic Four series for Marvel. He’s an internationally-recognized multiple-New-York-Times-bestselling author whose work has been translated into 16 different […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Mary Scott-Wiecek! Mary Scott-Wiecek is a Star Trek author. She lives in Ohio, and is sometimes credited elsewhere as Mary Wiecek. Grand Prize winner in the Strange New Worlds V competition. She lives in Ohio. Check out the Mary Scott-Wiecek author page to view more author updates and a […]
() Happy birthday to Aaron Rosenberg! AARON ROSENBERG is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of the DuckBob humorous science fiction series and the Dread Remora space-opera series, and the co-author of the O.C.L.T. thriller series and the ReDeus modern-day fantasy series, among others. He’s written tie-in novels (including the PsiPhi winner Collective Hindsight for Star […]
(© Luigi Novi / Wikimedia Commons) Happy birthday to Bob Ingersoll! Robert “Bob” Ingersoll is a Star Trek writer from Ohio with Tony Isabella. He recently collaborated with Thom Zahler on “‘Til Death” in The Sky’s the Limit. He is a lawyer by profession, and worked as an attorney in Cleveland, Ohio. Check out the […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Dan Abnett! Dan Abnett is an English comic book writer and novelist. He has been a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning, and is known for his work on books for both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel UK, since the 1990s, and also 2000 AD. He […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to David Dvorkin! David Dvorkin is an English-born science fiction and horror novelist. He earned a BA in mathematics and physics from Indiana University as well as an MS in mathematics from the University of Houston. He is the father of Daniel Dvorkin, another Star Trek author. Although born in […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Diane Carey! Diane Lydia Carey-Brodeur is an author from Flint, Michigan with over forty novels written in total in her career, which stretches back to the late 1970s. Best known for co-creating Star Trek: New Earth with John J. Ordover, she is one of the most prolific Star Trek […]
() Happy birthday to Michael Dismuke! Michael Dismuke writes various supplements for the Star Trek Adventures line of tabletop roleplaying games. He reverse engineers the television shows and movies into amazing gameplay. Writing new adventures and developing modules for fantastic fun and exploration makes him tick. He is also a fiction writer published in Star […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Simon Hawke! Simon Hawke is an American author of mainly science fiction and fantasy novels. He was born Nicholas Valentin Yermakov, but began writing as Simon Hawke in 1984 and later changed his legal name to Hawke. He has also written near future adventure novels under the pen name […]
(Image Credit: Luigi Novi) Happy birthday to Peter David! Peter David was born in New Jersey, and raised in Pennsylvania. David originally tried to work in Journalism but finally got a job at Marvel Comics as Asst. Direct Sales Manager. He wrote some “fill in” comics for Spider-man and eventually got to the point where […]
