Welcome to TIED IN: The Media Tie-in Blog. We’re kicking off a series of interviews with writers of Media Tie-in Work, also known as Licensing Work. These are novels, short stories, nonfiction books, comics, and audiobook scripts tied to movies,…
Tied-In: The Media Tie-In Blog
A message from the new IAMTW President, Jonathan Maberry
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…
2018 Scribe Awards Winners
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…
2018 Scribe Award Nominees
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,…
Building a Theme by Tim Waggoner
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…
Tied-in to terror – John Passarella on Supernatural: Night Terror
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…
Raymond Benson on Writing the Bond Novels
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 on Tie-In Writing
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?
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…