Bobby Nash asked Keith R.A. DeCandido:

How has writing tie-in fiction changed since you first started writing it?

Keith R.A. DeCandido I'd say the main way tie-in fiction has changed is that it's more and more likely that the people doing the approvals of your work are actual fans rather than low-level licensing drones who don't give a rat's patoot. It's also more and more likely that the people involved in producing the original material that you're tying into will be interested and/or involved in the tie-in fiction.

One other change relates specifically to movie novelizations -- in general doing these should be easier thanks to improvements in technology and communication, but fear of spoilers being leaked on the Internet has led to movie companies guarding movie scripts with the same security usually used by heads of state. (Which is absurd, because leaks on the Internet don't come from tie-in writers and never have. They come from low-level folks on the movie set trying to make extra money. Sigh.)

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