As a kid, I loved Star Trek. It didn’t take long for me to realize that the beginning of each episode prominently featured the name of the writer and I soon realized that I could find books by those writers at the local library. One of those writers was David Gerrold whose first sale was the Star Trek episode, “The Trouble with Tribbles.” One of the first library books I found was Gerrold’s book about writing and selling that episode. It’s the book that made me want to be a writer too. I eventua...