{"id":53381,"date":"2020-09-28T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=53381"},"modified":"2020-09-28T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T18:54:10","slug":"two-new-trek-authors-will-pen-trek-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2020\/09\/two-new-trek-authors-will-pen-trek-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Two New Trek Authors Will Pen Trek Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Gallery Books<\/em> has announced two new <em>Star Trek<\/em> novels to be written by<strong> Alex R. White<\/strong> and <strong>Cassandra Rose Clarke<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the press release:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These acquisitions mark the addition of two critically acclaimed genre fiction authors to the <em>Star Trek<\/em> publishing program, bringing new and diverse voices to the roster and book content.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alex R. White&#8217;s (<em>A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe; Alien: The Cold Forge<\/em>) novel, <em>Revenant<\/em>, is based on <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em> and prominently features fan-favorite characters Jadzia Dax and Kira Nerys.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cassandra Rose Clarke&#8217;s (<em>Star&#8217;s End<\/em>) novel, <em>Shadows Have Offended<\/em>, is a thrilling standalone novel featuring fan-favorite characters Deanna Troi, Beverly Crusher, and Worf, set in <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>&#8216;s epic seventh season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the acquisition, senior editor and licensing manager <strong>Ed Schlesinger<\/strong> said, &#8216;For decades, the <em>Star Trek<\/em> franchise has been at the forefront of diversity and inclusion, and we&#8217;re truly thrilled to be introducing Alex&#8217;s and Cassandra&#8217;s distinct and acclaimed voices to the ST novel program.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;<em>Star Trek<\/em> has always struck me as a universe with a place for everyone: empathetic, intelligent, empowered and vibrant,&#8217; White says, &#8216;Those stories were there for me when I needed to hear them, and I&#8217;m privileged to tell the next set all these years later.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clarke echoed White&#8217;s affinity for the <em>Star Trek<\/em> franchise. &#8216;I imprinted on <em>The Next Generation<\/em> at an early age, and it continues to be my favorite <em>Star Trek<\/em> series to this day. Those characters have been an enormous source of joy, inspiration, and comfort throughout my life, and I am honored to have this chance to send them on a brand new adventure.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The books will be published with World English rights, in a deal brokered by <strong>Connor Goldsmith<\/strong> at <em>Fuse Literary<\/em> (Alex R. White) and <strong>Stacia Decker<\/strong> at <em>Dunow, Carlson, and Lerner <\/em>(Cassandra Rose Clarke).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallery Books has announced two new Star Trek novels to be written by Alex R&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456],"tags":[3919,7337],"class_list":["post-53381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-clarke","tag-white"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WhiteClarke092820.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WhiteClarke092820-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WhiteClarke092820.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WhiteClarke092820.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WhiteClarke092820.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WhiteClarke092820.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WhiteClarke092820.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WhiteClarke092820.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WhiteClarke092820.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WhiteClarke092820.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/books\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Books<\/a>","tag_info":"Books","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53383,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53381\/revisions\/53383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}