(John Jackson Miller at the 2022 MidSouthCon in Memphis, Tennessee on 27 March 2022. Image by Fourthords ) Happy birthday to John Jackson Miller! John Jackson Miller is an American science-fiction author, comic book writer, and commentator, known for his work on the Star Wars franchise and his research into comic book circulation history, as […]
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Vallejo#/media/File:BorisVallejo.jpg by StefanServos) Happy birthday to Boris Vallejo! Vallejo works almost exclusively in the fantasy and erotica genres.[3] His hyper-representational paintings have appeared on the covers of numerous science fiction and fantasy paperbacks and are featured in a series of best-selling glossy calendars. Subjects of his paintings are typically sword and sorcery gods, monsters, and […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Robert E. Vardeman! Robert Edward Vardeman (sometimes credited as Vardebob) is a fantasy, mystery and science fiction writer who has also written a couple of Star Trek novels. Vardeman was born in Palo Pinto, Texas, but has lived much of his life in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has degrees […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Susan Shwartz! Susan Shwartz is a novelist and short story writer. She and co-author Josepha Sherman have written several Star Trek books, mostly concerning Vulcans and their Romulan cousins. Check out the Susan Shwartz author page to view more author updates and a full list of books! Find Susan […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to David A. McIntee! David A. McIntee is a Scottish author. He is fairly well known in the United Kingdom for writing a number of Doctor Who novels and audio episodes. In 2000, he wrote Delta Quadrant, a Star Trek: Voyager episode guide, for Virgin Books. This unofficial release caused […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to George Zebrowski! George Zebrowski is a science fiction writer of over seventy short stories and forty books. He has authored a few Star Trek novels with his writing partner, Pamela Sargent. He was born Jerzy Tadeus Zebrowski in Villach, Austria, of Polish descent and has lived in the USA […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Rick Berman! Richard Keith Berman is a veteran writer and producer of American television. He was the executive producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991-1994) and co-creator of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise. He also produced and co-wrote four Star Trek films. Check […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Bobbi JG Weiss! Bobbi JG Weiss has been a full-time freelance writer for many years. She and her husband, writer David Cody Weiss, began their careers focusing on Hollywood tie-in merchandise like games and MMOs for Disney, movie/TV show novels, comic books and graphic novels, and many other products. […]
(image Credit: Mike Muegel) Happy birthday to Nicholas Meyer! Nicholas Meyer directed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He wrote the screenplays for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI. Though never credited for his efforts, Meyer rewrote much of the screenplay for The […]
(Image by Gage Skidmore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Isabella#/media/File:Tony_Isabella_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg) Happy birthday to Tony Isabella! Tony Isabella is a comic book and novel writer. He has worked on two Star Trek publications, both with Bob Ingersoll, who is also from Ohio. In addition to his Star Trek works, he is credited with the creation of the DC Comics characters “Black […]
(J.M. Dillard aka Jeanne Kalogridis – Aug 1989 – Star Trek Convention – Tampa, Florida Photo by Alan C. Teeple) Happy birthday to J.M. Dillard! Jeanne M. Dillard is a pseudonym for Jeanne Kalogridis. She is an author who has written many Star Trek books as “J. M. Dillard”. She is notable for writing the […]
(Photograph courtesy of the author) Happy birthday to Greg Cox! Greg Cox is an American writer of science fiction, including works that are media tie-ins. He lives in Oxford, Pennsylvania. He has written numerous Star Trek novels, including The Eugenics Wars (Volume One and Two), The Q Continuum, Assignment: Eternity, and The Black Shore. His […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Andy Mangels! Andy Mangels is a writer of many Star Trek novels, in collaboration with Michael A. Martin. Although some of his novels feature the recurring homosexual character of Ranul Keru (ex-lover of Star Trek: First Contact’s Lt. Hawk), contrary to some claims, he is not the first Trek […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Melinda Snodgrass! Melinda M. Snodgrass is a writer who worked on several stories and teleplays for Star Trek: The Next Generation. She was also a story editor for The Next Generation during the second season and an executive script consultant on the third season. Her script for “The Measure […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Tony Daniel! Tony Daniel is the author of the Pocket TOS novels Devil’s Bargain and Savage Trade. Daniel was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and currently lives in Raleigh North Carolina. He has a wife and two children. His first novel was the 1991 Candle, republished in 1993 as Warpath, […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Dave Stern! Dave Stern is a Star Trek author and editor living in Massachusetts. Writer of a number of stories in the universe, his first contribution was for DC Comics co-writing the eighteenth issue of their second TNG volume, “Forbidden Fruit”. Not long after, he wrote the audio adventure […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Christie Golden! Award-winning author Christie Golden has written over thirty novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Among her many projects are over a dozen Star Trek novels and several original fantasy novels. An avid player of World of Warcraft, she has […]
() Happy birthday to Jim Johnson! Jim Johnson is the author of the Pistols and Pyramids weird Western series, the Potomac Shadows urban fantasy trilogy, and is the project manager and line editor for the Star Trek Adventures roleplaying game published by Modiphius Entertainment. When he’s not wrangling words or managing writers, Jim plays board […]
(Image Credit: Elf) Happy birthday to Alan Dean Foster! Alan Dean Foster is a prolific science fiction and fantasy author. He is credited with writing the story for what became Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Born in New York City, Foster went to the University of California, Los Angeles. He currently lives in Prescott, Arizona […]
(no image available) Happy birthday to Jeff Bond! Jeff Bond is an American magazine editor and writer, currently editor in chief of Geek Monthly. He is perhaps best known for the many reviews and columns he wrote as contributing editor for Film Score Monthly starting in the mid 1990s; as well as liner notes for […]
