2009 - 06/2009 Meeting

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AARON ROSENBERG

Partial List of Works:

Fiction:

Starcraft: Queen of Blades

Star Trek / Starfleet Corps of Engineers (6 solo or collaborative novelettes)

Transformers Animated: Attack of the Dinobots

Transformers Animated: Bumblebee vs Meltdown

Warcraft: Beyond the Dark Portal (with Christie Golden)

Warcraft: Tides of Darkness

Non Fiction:

The Library of Author Biographies: Madeleine L'Engle

The Library of Graphic Novelists: Colleen Doran

Game Rule Books, Modules, and Supplements for:

Dungeons & Dragons

Justice Society of America

Lord of the Rings

Theives' World

Warhammer

Official Site: http://gryphonrose.malibulist.com/

MEETING SUMMARY:

Meeting Date: June 13, 2009.

Meeting Site: Borders Books & Music, Ramsey, New Jersey.

Official Attendance: 16.

Meeting Program: Talk by Media SF/Fantasy Writer.

Notes:

Meeting Memories:

Newsletter Account

The Science Fiction Association of Bergen County met on Saturday, June 13, 2009 at Borders Books in Ramsey, New Jersey. Although no dues were collected per store policy, they should be remitted at the next Association function attended.

Philip De Parto moderated the Ice Nine pre meeting discussion. Topics included the impending return of TRUE BLOOD and debut of MERLIN, as well as a number of movies including UP, described as THE WIZARD OF OZ meets Indiana Jones.

Author Aaron Rosenberg was the evening's speaker. Mr Rosenberg was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His father was an untenured professor, so the family moved around a lot. Eventually dad joined the Navy and the family relocated to New Orleans where he was based.

Mr Rosenberg remembers reading library books like WITCH WORLD by Andre Norton and A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeline L'Engle at an early age. Even as a child, he wrote stories.

The family later moved to Kansas where he heard about the Campbell Conference, a workshop run by writers James Gunn and Fred Pohl. Mr Rosenberg later attended the University of Kansas where Gunn became his mentor.

He was a heavy gamer in college, and wrote a few stories and articles which were published in gaming magazines. He co-created the SF role playing game, Periphery, in 1994, which he describes a BABYLON 5 with the serial numbers filed off.

Mr Rosenberg graduated with a BA in Creative Writing and a Masters in English Literature. He taught for a while, but grew tired of academia and moved to New York in 1998. He freelanced at Tor and was Submissions Editor at Baen for 1-1/2 years.

Aaron Rosenberg ran into fellow Gunn disciple, Pocket Books STAR TREK Editor John Ordover, during that time and successfully pitched five story ideas for the STAR TREK: Starfleet Corps of Engineers series. The author is a fan of police procedurals and the stories were variations on the theme.

This soon led to the Star Craft and War Craft tie-ins which are also published by Pocket Books. Although the plots were predetermined by the games, the author was able to establish the back story of some characters which allowed their decisions to make more sense.

Mr Rosenberg described himself as an idea generator and discussed he ways he and worked with his various collaborators as well as the 13 non fiction books he had written for Rosen Publications. Unlike Joshua Palmatier, Aaron Rosenberg is a rigorous outliner who works through his outline in a straight line from beginning to end.