Star Trek Tie-in Novels

Star Trek Tie-in Novels are professional tie-ins set in the Star Trek universe, that are meant to complement the source material.
The Star Trek Tie-in novels are notable as many of them were written by fans. Some Star Trek fan writers transitioned to writing professionally published Star Trek books in the 1970s and 80s. 
See Bantam Books. See Ballantine Books. See Pocket Books.
==Guidelines and Constrictions==
* Pocket Book's Star Trek Pro Novel Guidelines (1985).
* Pocket Book's Star Trek Pro Novel Guidelines (1995)
==The Fan Labor Connection==
Small salaries spark better writing? Fans will do it for cheap? David Hartwell, Star Trek pro novel editor, suggested both things were true: 
See Star Trek Pro Books with Fan Connections.
== The Gender Gap: Declining Number of Female Writers for Star Trek TOS Tie-ins== 
===2016===
In 2016, some fans discussed the declining number of female writers for Pocket Book Star Trek TOS tie-ins over the years and how that year there weren't any female writers at all: 
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====2016: Discussion on Tumblr====
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===2019===
In 2019, Liz Barr (aka LizBee) demonstrated that the proportion of women writing Star Trek tie-in novels has been steadily dropping across the franchise; just 12% of Star Trek novels published between 2009 and 2019 were written by women.
==Fan Comments==
Most fans of fanworks tended to dislike the pro Trek novels, considering them lazy, lacking character development, written for money rather than love, boring, and out-of-character.
Many of these comments can be seen in The Ordover Wars, In support of Ordover, and similar posts.
===General Dissatisfaction===
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==Star Trek Pro Books with Fan Connections==
===The Original Series===
* Star Trek: The New Voyages (1976, 1978)
* The Price of the Phoenix (July 1977)
* The Fate of the Phoenix (May 1979)
* The Entropy Effect (June 1981)
* The Prometheus Design (March 1982)
* Black Fire (January 1983)
* Triangle (March 1983)
* Web of the Romulans (June 1983)
* Yesterday's Son (August 1983)
* Tears of the Singers (August 1984)
* The Vulcan Academy Murders (November 1984)
* Ishmael (May 1985)
* Killing Time (July 1985)
* The IDIC Epidemic (February 1988)
* Time for Yesterday (August 1988)
* Strange New Worlds (1998-2007; 2016)
===Deep Space Nine===
* A Stitch in Time (Star Trek: DS9 tie-in novel) (written by the actor who portrayed the character Elim Garak) (2000)
* Dawn of the Eagles - S.D. Perry & Britta Dennison (1998)
==Further Reading and Context==
* Black Fire, book and fan commentary (1983)
* Association for Readable TREK, a fan-proposed boycott by Julia Ecklar and Lisa Wahl (1983)
* Pocket Book's Star Trek Pro Novel Guidelines (1985)
* Writing Star Trek Fiction: Advice from A.C. Crispin, essay by Ann Miller (1985)
* Killing Time, book and fan commentary (1985)
* Some Notes on Writing for Publication, essay by A.C. Crispin (1985)
* How to Write a Star Trek Story, essay by Brian Wilkes (1986) 
* Pocket Book's Star Trek Pro Novel Guidelines (1995)
* Ordover Wars, event and commentary (1997-1998)
* The Ordover Files, essay and commentary (1998)
* In support of Ordover, essay and discussion (1999)
* What is the problem you have with PocketBooks, essay by Randall Landers (early 2000s)
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* Trek goes back to the fans, essay by Ron Moore (2005)
* , essay by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer at Tor.com (December 2012)
==References==
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