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Fellow Trekkie and friend of the site Adam Selvidge runs an excellent website called Star Trek Book Club, which compiles the latest and greatest in Trek lit news and reviews. Recently, he reached out with an opportunity I was more than happy to pounce on: he asked me if I’d like to write a piece for a fledgling feature on the site called TrekLit Connection, in which figures in the world of Star Trek lit-crit recount some of their histories with Trek writing and literature and talk about the events and ideas that led up to their current projects. I did just that, and he posted it a couple days ago. Go check it out posthaste! There are some parts of the origin story that I’m not sure I’ve ever talked about on here, so even long-time readers are liable to learn something new. I’m incredibly honored to have been asked to do this, and revisiting the road that eventually culminated in Deep Space Spines brought me a lot of warm fuzzies.

Next review should be out very soon, by the way.

Well, it finally happened: September 2024 was the first month since this site started to have zero new reviews. I am so sorry, but just know I am still into this project and have no thoughts of abandoning it. In my defense, school is crazy-busy this year, and Pathways is incredibly long (for a Star Trek novel) and mostly boring. (Why would you lead off with the Chakotay akoocheemoya stuff? Why?)

Anyway, that’s that. Also, I’m 40 years old today! But that’s a whole other story.

Hey people. Since apparently one site is not enough to satiate my desire for longform writing, I have also started Blocker Trap, which is essentially just me journaling the video games I play. If that sounds like your jam, I encourage you to give it a look, bookmark it, and check it frequently for updates just like you do here.

In the meantime, I am making my way through Ship of the Line as best I can, and, uh … hoo boy, do I have some things to say about that one.

I haven’t been on Twitter in a long time myself, but after observing the dumpster fire that’s been Elon Musk’s “leadership”, I’ve been curious to see where the exodus has taken other people.

For some time now, I’ve wanted to do some more general quick writing on things that cross my mind that aren’t Star Trek books. I had been toying with buying another domain and doing another independent site, but hadn’t pulled the trigger. The hassle of getting this site initially set up five years ago is still a fresh enough memory to make me hesitant to do it a second time. But the idea stayed with me.

Then, in watching where people were migrating to from Twitter, I realized: “Oh hey, Tumblr is already pretty good for that.”

So I dusted off a Tumblr I already had that I hadn’t used in 12 years, tidied it up, and it was off to the races. (roundthewheel is my favored username across most of the rest of the internet.) And so yeah, if you want some material to help fill the long gaps between reviews that sadly are more the rule than the exception these days, go bookmark that or follow me on it or whatever. I’m excited about it, as one tends to be about new things, but we’ll see how long it lasts.

I’ve finished reading the next several Star Trek books but have to find time to get the thoughts on them written down. Hopefully I can do that soon. In the meantime, enjoy the other site.