Tied Up With Tie-Ins: Alan Dean Foster! Posted on June 15, 2020 by Tiki God Related Author: Alan Dean Foster After an irregular, infrequent attempt last year to kickstart this (hopefully) recurring feature here on the blog, here I am with the second installment in less than a month! The idea is simple: I’m a tie-in writer. Before that, I was a tie-in reader. I still am, of course, but way back when?