Breakdowns (Star Trek: S.C.E)
Keith R.A. DeCandidowas born and raised in New York City to a family of librarians. He has written over two dozen novels, as well as short stories, nonfiction, eBooks, and comic books, most of them in various media universes, among themStar Trek, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Marvel Comics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, Resident Evil, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, Farscape, Xena,andDoctor Who. His original novelDragon Precinctwas published in 2004, and he's also edited several anthologies, among them the award-nominatedImaginingsand twoStar Trekanthologies. Keith is also a musician, having played percussion for the bands the Don't Quit Your Day Job Players, the Boogie Knights, and the Randy Bandits, as well as several solo acts. In what he laughingly calls his spare time, Keith follows the New York Yankees and practiceskenshikaikarate. He still lives in New York City with his girlfriend and two insane cats.Still reeling from the knowledge thatStar Trekwas a live-action series before it was a Saturday-morning cartoon, KEVIN DILMORE is continually grateful for his professional involvement on the fiction and the non-fiction sides of the Star Trek universe for nearly a decade. Since 1997, he has been a contributing writer toStar Trek Communicator, penning news stories and personality profiles for the bimonthly publication of the Official Star Trek Fan Club. He has written for magazines includingAmazing Stories,Star Wars KidsandFLIcK. Kevin’s interviews with some ofStar Trek’s most popular authors appear in volumes of theStar Trek Signature Editions, published by Pocket Books. On the fictional side of things, his short stories include "The Road to Edos" in theStar Trek: New FrontieranthologyNo Limitsand "Home on the Strange," the first installment ofReality Cops: The Continuing Adventures of Vale and Mistfor Phobos Books. With Dayton Ward, he has written theStar Trek: The Next GenerationnovelsA Time to SowandA Time to Harvest, a story for the anthologyStar Trek: Tales of the Dominion War, eight installments of the continuing e-book seriesStar Trek: S.C.E.and the short story "Enemy Unknown!" forRocket League—The Thrilling Roleplaying Gameby Playus Maximus. Kevin lives in Kansas City, MO.Heather Jarmanlives in Portland, Oregon, where she supplements her day job as a tired mommy with her writing career. Her most recent contributions to theStar Trekfiction include "The Officers' Club," the Kira Nerys story inTales from the Captain's Table, andParadigm, the Andor novel inWorlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume One.By night Heather flies to distant lands on black ops missions for the government, where she frequently breaks open industrial-strength cans of whupass on evildoers.Dayton Ward served for eleven years in the U.S. Marine Corps before discovering the private sector and the piles of cash to be made there as a software engineer. He got his start in professional writing by placing stories in each of Pocket Books’ first threeStar Trek: Strange New Worldsanthologies. He is the author of dozens ofStar Treknovels, many written in collaboration with coauthor Kevin Dilmore. He recently penned a tie-in to the cult classic television seriesThe 4400, and is currently at work on a newStar Treknovel to be released in Fall 2010. Though he currently lives in Kansas City with his wife, Michi, he is a Florida native and still maintains a torrid long-distance romance with his beloved Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Readers interested in contacting Dayton or learning more about his writing, or who simply need proof that their website is cooler and better looking, are encouraged to venture to his Internet cobweb collection at www.daytonward.com.