Psi Phi's Star Trek Book Database

Upcoming Conventions

May 28-31, in Baltimore, Maryland, several authors will appear at Balticon 38. URL: http://www.balticon.org/
Star Trek authors include Keith R.A. DeCandido, Eric A. Kotani, Josepha Sherman, and Susan Shwartz. (Greg Cox had been scheduled to attend, but he is unable to attend.)

June 18-20, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, author Keith R.A. DeCandido will appear at the TrekExpo. URL: http://www.starbase21ok.com/trek_expo_2004.htm

As usual the annual fan run Shore Leave Convention has announced an impressive lineup of Star Trek authors as being among the guests. Among those attending the convention July 9-11th in Baltimore, Maryland will be: Ilsa J. Bick, Kelly Cairo, John Coffren, Greg Cox, Ann C. Crispin, Peter David, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Kevin Dilmore, Michael Jan Friedman, Dave Galanter, Christian Grainger, Robert Greenberger, Glenn Hauman, Heather Jarman, Robert T. Jeschonek, Jim Johnson, Kevin Killiany, Jeffrey Lang, Kevin Lauderdale, Gerri Leen, David Mack, Michael A. Martin, Susan McCrackin, Terri Osborne, Marco Palmieri, Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen, Josepha Sherman, Susan Shwartz, Amy Sisson, Lisa Sullivan, Kevin G. Summers, Dayton Ward, Howard Weinstein, Joan Winston, and Susan Wright. Details at http://www.shore-leave.com/
Update 4/16/04: S.D. Perry will not be able to attend, but Michael A. Martin has been added to the guest list.

Authors David R. George III, Margaret Wander Bonanno, Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Dayton Ward, and Kevin Dilmore will be appearing at the James Doohan Tribute Convention in Los Angeles, CA (August 28-30, 2004 [old date was June 18-20, 2004]). They will be doing panels and book signings on Saturday and Sunday. Additional authors may be added closer to the date of the convention. For more information, please visit http://www.planetxpo.com/doohan/

Past Conventions

From Terri Osborne, re: Arisia 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts (January 16-18, 2004).

A heads-up for a convention for those in or within reasonable driving distance of Boston, MA:

Arisia is an annual SF literary convention that takes place in Boston every MLK weekend. This year's will have the usual assortment of media-related panels, on everything from

Some of the writers (both Trek and non-Trek) that are currently scheduled to be panelists on varying subjects are:

Michael A. Burstein
Jeanne Cavelos
Keith DeCandido
Debra Doyle
Bob Greenberger
Paul Levinson
James Macdonald
Wen Spencer
Cecilia Tan
Shane Tourtellotte
Susan Wright

Oh, yeah, and me.

I can tell you there will be a panel on the 10th Anniversary of Deep Space Nine at 5:00 p.m. Saturday afternoon. There are also panels on all other sorts of SF, both media (Buffy, Angel, SG-1, Dr. Who, etc.) and literary (Harry Potter, LOTR, etc.). www.arisia.org is the con's website.

Hope to see some of you there!

From "Iron Devil", re: Gallifrey One in Van Nuys, CA (February 13-16, 2004):

There's a few Trek writers due to appear at the Gallifrey One convention, February 13-16, 2004 at the Airtel Plaza Hotel in Van Nuys (suburban Los Angeles), California.
http://www.gallifreyone.com/gallifrey.php

Marv Wolfman - Marvel ST comics writer.
Len Wein - Gold Key & DC Comics ST comics writer.
David Gerrold - Scriptwriter for TOS & TAS Tribbles episodes, Encounter At Farpoint novel.
Jim Swallow - ST: Voyager, ST Invasion videogame, ST magazine writer.
Jill Sherwin - writer of Quotable Star Trek, The Definitive Star Trek Trivia Book, Volume I & Volume II, The Lives of Dax.

Authors Bob Greenberger, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Terri Osborne, Glenn Greenberg, Esther Friesner, Lawrence M. Schoen, John Peel, and Eric A. Kotani will attend the I-Con convention at SUNY-Stony Brook, March 26-28, 2004. See http://www.iconsf.org/ for more details.

Authors Robert Picardo ("The Hologram's Handbook") and Ethan Phillips ("The Star Trek Cookbook"), both also stars of "Star Trek: Voyager", will be performing a new stage play called "Doubles", written by three-time SNW winner TG Theodore (who will also be in attendance), at the Grand Slam convention, on Friday, March 26, at 9pm. Also appearing will be actors/novelists Andrew J. Robinson, Armin Shimerman, and William Shatner. The convention is in Pasadena, California, March 26-28. See http://www.creationent.com/cal/stgs.htm for more information.

Authors Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore will be joining Christie Golden as guests at the Starland Convention in Denver, Colorado April 16-18, 2004. More information can be found at http://www.starland.com/

If you have news about upcoming Star Trek author appearances at conventions, please write to <davidh at psiphi dot org> with the subject line "Conventions".