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  • Accentuating the “International” in IAMTW

    Accentuating the “International” in IAMTW

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    News from IAMTW Executive Vice President D. J. Stevenson: The IAMTW is expanding its membership criteria and inviting those who translate media tie-ins to join. It makes no difference if the work is in to English or out of English. As long as the product they are translating is a tie-in, it counts. We want…

  • A Message from IAMTW President Jonathan Maberry

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    Hello to all my fellow media tie-in writers! I’m honored to serve as the new president of the IAMTW. I wanted to take a moment to explain my background and my love of our genre. I grew up reading a lot of media tie-in books. When I was seven I read Paul V. Fairman’s City…

  • Burn Notice: The Novel

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    Does a real writer accept a gig doing books spun off from films or TV shows? A real writer found the answer to his own question. By Tod Goldberg, Special to The Times   YOU COULD spend your entire life sitting in Starbucks next to people hunched over laptops, and you’d never hear a single…

  • 2018 Scribe Awards Winners

    2018 Scribe Awards Winners

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    The International Association of Tie-In Writers is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Scribe Awards. Short Story Adapted Speculative and General Novel Original Speculative Novel Original General Novel YA Original Novel Audio Drama International Association of Media Tie-In Writers 2017 Faust Award Greg Cox The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers is thrilled…

  • 2018 Scribe Award Nominees

    2018 Scribe Award Nominees

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    The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers is pleased to announce the Scribe Award Nominees for 2018. Acknowledging excellence in this very competitive field, the IAMTW’s Scribe Awards honor licensed works that tie in with other media such as television, movies, gaming, or comic books. They include original works set in established universes, and adaptations…

  • Building a Theme by Tim Waggoner

    Building a Theme by Tim Waggoner

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    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 little pay for their efforts and even less recognition. But while perhaps very few would-be…

  • Tied-in to terror – John Passarella on Supernatural: Night Terror

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    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 apocalypse arc that concluded in season five. I was told right up front by the editor…

  • Raymond Benson on Writing the Bond Novels

    Raymond Benson on Writing the Bond Novels

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    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 he wrote extensively for several fan club publications, and in 1984 wrote what is still…

  • Mel Odom on Tie-In Writing

    Mel Odom on Tie-In Writing

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    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 tie-in authors because they figure ‘You’re not doing real work. You’re not really being a…

  • What Is a Tie-In Writer?

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    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 SHE WROTE, from DUNE to James Bond, from RESIDENT EVIL to Hannah Montana. Our books…