Valkyrie, maybe?

Well, we have the core CONJURING movies featuring the Warrens, the spin-off ANNABELLE movies featuring the evil doll, and apparently we’re getting a spin-off featuring the Evil Nun from the last CONJURING movie, so, yeah, that sounds like a “universe” to me. (Don’t judge me for knowing this.)

Neat photos!

Maybe it’s the New England setting, or the fact that Turhan Bey is probably the most charismatic (and believably Egyptian) of the various high priests of Karnak in the original movies.

As opposed to, say, John Carradine in brownface. :)

I gotta ask: at the risk of channeling my inner curmudgeon, why would you assume that we wouldn’t want to watch one of the classic black-and-white Mummy movies? And let’s not skip over Hammer’s (garishly) color versions from the sixties and seventies . . . .

Or if you DO want to go back to the classics, I recommend the original 1932 movie with Boris Karloff. Of the four subsequent films, THE MUMMY’S TOMB with Lon Chaney Jr., is my favorite, but that may just be nostalgia talking since I think it was the first Mummy movie I saw as a kid. YMMV.

As for the later Hammer…

Given that SWAMP THING has a long track record onscreen (movies, a TV series, a Saturday morning cartoon), I’m surprised that he’s not making a comeback, given the popularity of comics-based movies and TV shows these days.

Hah! By coincidence, I was watching this just last night.

And, yeah, I’m amazed that a new SWAMP THING movie is not already in the works . . ..

This new trilogy has nothing to do with the Tim Burton version, which turned out to be a one-off. The sequence is RISE, DAWN, and WAR.

The Tim Burton movie exists by itself, as its own thing.

And here’s the final cover for the novelization:

No problem, but shouldn’t that be “Thanks for answering my hail”? :)

It depends on the series a bit. The 24th century stuff (TNG, DS9, VOY) tends to be more interconnected these days, and my general impression is that most of the readership really likes that. In a sense, this reflects modern entertainment trends,which are more about ongoing story arcs and such.

The TOS books (which is…

“THE TEN-CENT PLAGUE: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America” by David Hadju is an excellent book on the history of anti-comic-book hysteria.

Not a big fan of the New York Post either. :)

“So there’s this hit movie everybody’s liking. Can we just report that?”

“Don’t be silly. We’re all about getting old white folks scared and angry. Find something they can be offended about. “

“Well, she doesn’t have star-spangled panties anymore . . . “

“Bingo. Run with that.”

Q-Squared (by Peter David) was the Q/Trelane book.

Thanks! Pairing Kirk with Seven was actually my editor’s idea, but I had a lot of fun with it. I wrote my one-and-only VOYAGER book back in the Kes era, so I’d always felt cheated that I never got to write Seven of Nine . . . until time-travel offered a way! :)

I like to think that Pocket Books is still doing fun and quirky stuff that would have been tricky to bring to life onscreen.

(Says the guy who wrote a Captain Kirk/Seven of Nine team-up. )

Yep, THE NIGHT DAHLIA is the sequel to NIGHTWISE, due out in April 2018.

I appreciate your enthusiasm!

My lips are sealed, but I can tease by saying that most of the book takes place in and around Los Angeles . . . and involves a cold case from Ballard’s past.

(And the cover is gorgeous, although I’m not at liberty to reveal it yet.)