International Association of Media Tie-In Writers
CELEBRATING THE BUSINESS, HISTORY AND CRAFT OF MEDIA TIE-IN WRITING
This article by TIM WAGGONER originally appeared in “Writing Popular Fiction” in 2005 and is use here with his permission. Work for hire. In the publishing community, the phrase conjures images of laborers toiling in someone else’s field, earning very…
Cavan Scott braves things that go bump in the night to talk to author John Passarella about his new Supernatural tie-in novel, Night Terror What can you tell us about Night Terror? Night Terror is set late in season six of Supernatural, which followed the huge…
This in-depth interview with author RAYMOND BENSON was conducted by JOHN COX for www.commanderbond.net and is reprinted here with their permission, for which the IAMTW is grateful. Raymond Benson has had a long career “in Bondage.” As a Bond fan…
MEL ODOM is the author of such novelizations as Vertical Limit and Blade. He offered these thoughts on tie-in writing in an interview for THE 11th HOUR website. You can read the entire interview here. “A lot of ‘regular’ authors look down on media…
What is a Tie-In Writer? We write science fiction, westerns, mysteries, romance and thrillers and sometimes all of the above. Our work embraces just about every genre you can think of, from STAR TREK to CSI, from GUNSMOKE to MURDER…