Well, 2023 has been a slow year for me in some ways, a big year in others. I’m still in a drought where tie-ins and other contract work are concerned. As it happens, the owners of the company that owns GraphicAudio (my Tangent Knights publishers) sold that company so they could buy Simon & Schuster (my Star Trek prose publishers), and that apparently led to a lot of waiting-and-seeing that slowed down acquiring new projects until it was all done, or at least that’s the vague impression I’ve gotten. On the other hand, my inheritance from my late Uncle Clarence has proven unexpectedly sizeab ..read more

The hotel in Hunt Valley where the Shore Leave convention has been held for as long as I’ve been going (which has been under several names as it’s changed owners repeatedly over recent years) has finally been closed entirely, so the convention has had to find a new home. The new locale is the Lancaster Wyndham Resort and Convention Center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and there’s more info about it on the Shore Leave site here: Hotel Information Lancaster is about 66 miles north-northeast of Hunt Valley, Maryland. It’s a slightly shorter drive for me if I go directly from/to Cincinnati, more c ..read more

It’s been a slow year for new releases by me, but my third Star Trek Adventures campaign of 2023 has just come out, and thanks to STA continuing to expand its license to incorporate new series, it’s my first time writing something that ties in to Star Trek: Picard. Star Trek Adventures: Children of the Wolf A mission to resettle Romulan refugees into a sector with a troubled history leads to a discovery that may cause even more problems. Difficult decisions lie ahead if you wish to avoid more conflict.  Your ship has been tasked to assist in the massive effort to evacuate and resettle ci ..read more

Okay, I’m back home after Shore Leave. The car worked fine both ways, with no problems. There were moments when I heard a repetitive noise from the tires that made me worry after my blowout last year, but when I stopped at a gas station to check, the tires were fine. It must’ve just been something in the texture of the road making that sound and making me paranoid. I had a nice uneventful trip, avoiding nearly all the rain that had been predicted. Baked a frozen pizza the night before, so I had leftover pizza for lunch and dinner on the road. (Cold pizza is surprisingly good.) Spent the night ..read more

The Shore Leave folks have posted the schedule for next weekend’s convention here: Schedule Since I don’t have much coming out this year to talk about, my own participation in the panels will be slight, entirely on Friday, July 7: 4pm Star Trek Discovery, a New Era of Trek Salon B Rigel Ailur (moderator), Derek Tyler Attico , Christopher L. Bennett , Kirsten Beyer , Kelli Fitzpatrick , Dayton Ward The panel will discuss how DSC has broken new ground, its legacy, and the other shows it launched, like Star Trek Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds. 5pm What Happened to the Sta ..read more

Big news today from the Star Trek Adventures role-playing game! Modiphius has gotten the rights to add Star Trek: Lower Decks to its gaming universe, as revealed today on StarTrek.com: https://www.startrek.com/news/star-trek-adventures-brings-the-action-to-the-lower-decks A hardcover campaign guide for creating Lower Decks-style campaigns will be out in the summer, but there’s some digital content releasing today, including a Season 1 character pack containing statistics for a range of LD characters and the U.S.S. Cerritos. And I had the privilege of writing the first Lower Decks-style standal ..read more

My newest Star Trek Adventures product is out, and it’s free! Star Trek Adventures Mission Briefs: Ancient Civilizations The Galaxy is ancient beyond easy comprehension – on the order of a million times older than Human civilization. Uncounted civilizations have risen and fallen before the dawn of recorded history of any Federation world. While most of their remains have long since vanished, many have left ruins or artifacts that endure to the present. Other ancient societies live on, wielding technologies or mental abilities vastly beyond our own, though not always in a form recognizable to ..read more

I apologize for the delay in sending out the first batch of autographed books from my book sale, but they’re now at the post office, beginning their journey to their buyers. I optimistically say “first batch,” since there are still plenty more books available! Find the full list here: https://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/2022/11/23/at-last-the-return-of-the-holiday-book-sale/ You can buy them for yourself, or ask me to autograph them to a friend or loved one as a holiday gift ..read more

Less than two months after my previous Star Trek Adventures standalone campaign, Better Days, Modiphius has just released my latest campaign: Star Trek Adventures: Native Soil Assisting an archeological team on the planet Avalon leads to a shocking discovery and entangles the crew in a momentous cultural dilemma. Your orders are to assist an archaeological team being led by an old friend of one of the ship’s command personnel. The planet’s original civilization was wiped out thousands of years ago by a radiation burst. Thankfully, the planet is no longer in danger and a new civilization has s ..read more

It’s been a year and a half since my last Star Trek Adventures standalone campaign came out, but my latest one has finally been released! Here’s the official description: Star Trek Adventures: Better Days Complications suffered while traveling through the Bajoran Wormhole lead to a historically significant mission to Bajor itself. Starfleet has directed your vessel to carry out a survey mission to the Gamma Quadrant. It should be a relatively simple exploratory mission but, having left Deep Space 9 behind, your passage through the Bajoran Wormhole causes some damage to the ship which forces y ..read more