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I am honored to share the news that my Star Trek: The Next Generation short story “Family History,” published in the final issue of Star Trek Explorer magazine, has been honored by The International Association of Media Tie-in Writers with a 2025 Scribe Award in the category of Best Short Fiction. The Scribe Awards were […]

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One week from tomorrow I’ll be at Shore Leave in Lancaster, PA! If you’re going to be at the show, here’s my final schedule. Come say “hi!”

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To all residents of Queens County, NY — please DO NOT vote for John Ciafone for Civil Court Judge in the 2025 Democratic Primary special election. (Links to sources will be included at the end of this post.) In June 2020, I urged my fellow New Yorkers, specifically Queens residents, not to vote for John […]

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My friend and longtime editor Margaret Clark passed away in the early hours of Sunday morning, March 16, 2025. Margaret was the first editor to ever hire me to write a book, roughly 25 years ago, when she commissioned me to pen The Starfleet Survival Guide. She took a chance on me before I had […]

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I am pleased to share the news that this past Friday, July 26, 2024, Star Trek: Picard – Firewall was honored with a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for “Best Original Novel, Speculative.” It was a hotly contested category, as always, and I feel deeply honored that the judges ultimately […]

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If you’ll be attending the Shore Leave Convention in Lancaster, PA, the weekend of July 26–28, here is a quick rundown of where and when to see me at the show.* FRIDAY, JULY 26 5:00PM–5:50PM, New Holland Room – Farscape’s 25th Anniversary 10:00PM–Midnight – Meet the Pros (mass book signing event) SATURDAY, JULY 27 10:00AM–10:50AM, […]

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I am happy and honored to share the news that two of my works earned nominations this year: my novel Star Trek: Picard – Firewall is nominated in the category of Best Original Novel, Speculative, and my Star Trek: Deep Space Nine short story “Lost and Founder” from Issue 8 of Star Trek Explorer magazine […]

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Long story short: I had an amazing time this past weekend at Phoenix Fan Fusion 2024! I was kind of a last-minute addition to the con’s lineup of guests, which included such luminaries of prose and comics as Peter V. Brett, Fonda Lee, Gwenda Bond, Veronica Roth, Peter Krause, Robert Jackson Bennett, Robin Hobb, Sarah […]

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Now that my new Star Trek: Picard novel Firewall is officially out, the time has come for me to explain the thinking behind my choices for the music on its inspirational Spotify playlist. Most of the songs with lyrics are about Seven’s emotional state and worldview at various points throughout the story. The onces that […]

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Most people in F/SF circles already know this, but it bears occasional repetition: Jon del Arroz is a lying piece of shit. In his latest column of frothing right-wing drivel over at Bounding Into Comics (the Truth Social of fan sites), the lying shitbird del Arroz took a tangent from complaining about Vulcans mentioning gender […]

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