Kevin D. Anderson sells zombie/trekkie mash-up to Quirk
By Ian Randal Strock
March 5, 2010
Publishers Lunch is reporting that Kevin J. AndersonKevin David Anderson has signed to write Night of the Living Trekkies for Quirk Books. Agent Scott Miller at Trident Media Group handled the deal with Quirk Associate Publisher Jason Rekulak. The book will be "a mash up mixing a zombie apocalypse with the enduring mythology of Star Trek."
Anderson and his wife and writing partner Rebecca Moesta have written many Star Wars novels and comics, but only three Star Trek books: one Deep Space Nine novel (Highest Score) and two Next Generation graphic novels (The Corn Crisis, book 1 and The Corn Crisis, book 2).
Edited later: Our mistake. We got the wrong Kevin Anderson on that article. The actual author, Kevin Anderson, writes to tell us the book will be published as by "Kevin David Anderson". We apologize to both Kevins Anderson, and to our readers, for the confusion. (See also the comments, below.)
Sounds like an interesting book, but that's not me. It's someone named Kevin David Anderson, though I admit it's damned confusing.
On the more minor correction side, my wife and I wrote only one ST:TNG graphic novel, and it's "The GORN Crisis" (the big lizard guys), not "The Corn Crisis."
Actually, Publishers Weekly reports that Kevin Anderson -- NOT Kevin J. Anderson -- is writing this book. It is, in fact, being written by Kevin "David" Anderson:
But those of us who follow Kevin J. Anderson's career with a great deal of ... zeal were not the least bit surprised by this. It seems like exactly the sort of side project he would undertake. To fill in a spare weekend or three.
After all, we can't expect him to spend ALL his time on those ... delightful books with that Herbert fellow, right?
however, poor researching aside,
it is not beyond the realm of possibilities
(or probabilities) that TheKJA would come up
with a scenario like this, so the author of the
blurb should be forgiven.
