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What tie-in works have you read and enjoyed? What are your thoughts on the discussion? Leave them here and make it a point to rate the episode here.
From the original show notes:
John and Keith chat with author Jeff Mariotte and media tie-in fan Steve Roby about this particular subgenre. Is it legitimate? Is it your gateway to mainstream literature? Is it unfair to look at it as not original?
JEFF MARIOTTE is the award-winning writer of more than thirty novels, including Missing White Girl, River Runs Red and Cold Black Hearts (all as Jeffrey J. Mariotte), horror epic The Slab, teen horror quartet Witch Season, CSI: Miami—Right to Die, and more, as well as dozens of comic books. He’s a co-owner of specialty bookstore Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego, and lives in southeastern Arizona on the Flying M Ranch. Keep tabs on Jeff's comings and going on his website.
Steve Roby is a longtime fan of Star Trek, science fiction in general, old movies, crime fiction, historical fiction, Bugs Bunny, punk/new wave/postpunk, and a lot of other things.
For something like ten years now, Steve has been labouring on the Complete Starfleet Library website (http://www.well.com/~sjroby/lcars/), which covers over a thousand Star Trek books, official and unofficial, fiction and nonfiction. If you want to know about Star Trek: The Poems, Going Boldly on Your Inner Voyage: The Unauthorized Starfleet Daily Meditation Manual, or Narratives from the Final Frontier: A Postcolonial Reading of the Original Star Trek Series, this is the site.
Steve is a librarian in Ottawa, Canada, where he lives with his wife Laura and their cat Spencer.
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As far as the media tie-ins I read, honestly, mostly it's confined to Dr Who-related works. There aren't a whole lot of series I follow closely enough to take the time to go the extra mile and, having mixed my metaphors, dig in to media tie-in literature.
I absolutely believe much media tie-in work, especially today, is literature. "The Sleep of Reason" by Martin Day is really very good, as is Lance Parkin's "Just War" and Paul Cornell's "Human Nature".
My question, for whomever cares to field it, is...how does media tie-in happen? Does a publisher go to the licensor, or vice versa? Can an author get involved. Fer instance, can Keith go to Pocket Books and say "How about us doing an NCIS novel?" Or does Pocket go to Bellasario (or CBS) and then, once they get the deal, go to Keith?
I don't have the time to re-listen to every classic podcast, but this one I made sure to catch. Very nice show.