(no image available) Happy birthday to Michael Jan Friedman! Michael Jan Friedman is one of the most prolific novelists for Pocket Books’ line of Star Trek novels, perhaps best known for creating the characters that would crew the Star Trek: Stargazer series of books. He assisted John J. Ordover in developing the Double Helix six-part […]
(Writer en:Glenn Haumann at Midtown Comics Times Square, at the midnight signing of The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born. Photo by Nightscream) Happy birthday to Glenn Hauman! Glenn Hauman is a Star Trek author. Hauman was born in New York, and now lives in Weehawken, New Jersey. He is an alumnus of New York University. […]
(2017, photo by DianeAnna) Happy birthday to Bernd Perplies! Bernd Perplies is a german writer, translator and journalist from Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. Bernd Perplies studied Film Science, Germanistics, Book Sciences and Psychology in Mainz. He was then employed by the German Film Institute in Frankfurt am Main, where he worked as an editor of filmportal.de […]
(Photo by Georges Seguin) Happy birthday to Laurell K. Hamilton! Laurell K. [Kaye] Hamilton, nee Klein, is a two-time New York Times Best Seller fantasy author. Her novels mix mystery, magic, horror, and romance. She lives in Missouri with her husband, daughter and two dogs. She is well known for her “Anita Blake” series of […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Paula M. Block! Paula M. Block oversees licensed Star Trek publishing for Paramount Pictures and, as of 2006, CBS. She has worked closely with the editors at Pocket Books since 1989, and is perhaps best known to fans for her role in co-editing Pocket’s Strange New Worlds series – […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to John Vornholt! John Vornholt is the acclaimed author of numerous Star Trek novels, including Gemworld Books One and Two, Sanctuary, Mind Meld, Masks, Contamination, Antimatter, Rogue Saucer, and The Dominion War Books One and Three. He lives in Arizona with his wife and two sons. Check out the John […]
(Image Credit: Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA) Happy birthday to Andrew J. Robinson! Andrew J. Robinson is an actor, author, and former director of the Master of Fine Arts acting program at the University of Southern California. He’s most notably known for his role as the Scorpio Killer in the feature film Dirty Harry […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Andre Bormanis! André Bormanis was the science consultant on the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and for all of both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. He served as story editor on the first season, as executive story editor on the third season, […]
(From photographer Daniel Reichert for the bio of Ethan Phillips.) Happy birthday to Ethan Phillips! Ethan Phillips was born into a restaurant family. His father was the owner of the famous New York steak house Frankie and Johnnie’s, which still serves up the most delicious sirloin in all of Manhattan. Striking out on his own, […]
(Image Credit: Gage Skidmore) Happy birthday to Brent Spiner! Robot Author Check out the Brent Spiner author page to view more author updates and a full list of books! Find Brent Spiner’s work on Amazon.com
(no image available) Happy birthday to Jeffrey Lang! Jeffrey Lang is the author of several Star Trek novelizations. He currently lives in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania with his partner Helen, and his son, Andrew. He also wrote the short story “Dead Man’s Hand” in the DS9 anthology The Lives of Dax. Check out the Jeffrey Lang […]
(reading at 2023 Gaithersburg Book Festival ) Happy birthday to Alan Gratz! Alan Gratz is an author of novels, short stories, plays, magazine articles, and radio commercials. His short fiction has appeared in Metropulse magazine and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, among others. In addition, Gratz has taught writing to middle school students in Tokyo, Japan, […]
(Image Credit: Mike Muegel) Happy birthday to David Gerrold! David Gerrold is the author of the Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated The Man Who Folded Himself, When Harlie Was One, and the Chtorr, Dingillian, and Star Wolf series. He also wrote “The Trouble with Tribbles” episode of Star Trek, which was voted the most popular Star […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to John Peel! John Ronald Peel is a Star Trek author from Nottingham, England. He moved to the USA in 1981 and sold his first professional piece of writing to Marvel Comics. Over the next few years, he became friendly with Terry Nation (creator of Daleks for Doctor Who) through […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Derek Tyler Attico! Rebellious author, nərd, Trekkiest Trekker and scribe of caffeinated tweets! Check out the Derek Tyler Attico author page to view more author updates and a full list of books! Find Derek Tyler Attico’s work on Amazon.com
() Happy birthday to Geoffrey Thorne! Geoffrey A. Thorne is a prolific science fiction author and screenwriter who has written a number of short stories for the Star Trek anthologies and the novel Sword of Damocles. He also wrote an unproduced episode of TNG, The Rivals, not to be confused with the similarly titled episode […]
(Johnson at Swecon 2018)Happy birthday to Kij Johnson! Katherine Irenae “Kij” Johnson is an American fantasy and science fiction author. She co-wrote a Star Trek: The Next Generation novel with Greg Cox. Johnson was born in Harlan, Iowa. “Kij” is an abbreviation of her initials. She has been a director of the Center for the […]
(Larry Nemecek and Kim Stinger speaking at the 2013 Phoenix Comicon at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo by Gage Skidmore.)Happy birthday to Larry Nemecek! Larry Wayne Nemecek is a noted Star Trek author, editor, archivist, consultant, and producer. He is married to onetime script coordinator Janet Nemecek. A native Oklahoman, Nemecek began […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Jeff Yagher! Jeff Yagher played Iden in the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Flesh and Blood”. Check out the Jeff Yagher author page to view more author updates and a full list of books! Find Jeff Yagher’s work on Amazon.com
() Happy birthday to Una McCormack! Una McCormack is the British author of several Star Trek novels and stories. She has also written a number of Doctor Who novels and short stories. She lives and works in Cambridge, England, and has taught at the world-famous university there. Check out the Una McCormack author page to […]
