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Shore Leave 35 Guest: Keith R.A. DeCandido

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Keith R.A. DeCandido keeps writing things -- but then again, people keep paying him, for reasons passing understanding. Some of the things he has written has been in a variety of media universes ranging from TV shows (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Farscape, Leverage, Star Trek, Supernatural) to movies (Cars, Kung Fu Panda, Resident Evil, Serenity) to games (BattleTech, Dungeons & Dragons, StarCraft, World of Warcraft) to comic books (the Hulk, Spider-Man, the Silver Surfer, the X-Men). His most recent tie-in work is the Leverage novel The Zoo Job, and he's also adapted the screenplay The Fallen as a comic book. He's also been doing a twice-weekly Star Trek Rewatch for Tor.com, starting with The Next Generation, and moving onto Deep Space Nine.

Keith also has a bunch of stuff out he keeps the copyright on: the acclaimed "Precinct" series of high-fantasy police procedurals, including Dragon Precinct, Unicorn Precinct, Goblin Precinct, and several new releases for 2013: Gryphon Precinct, the fourth novel, Tales from Dragon Precinct, a short story collection, a comic book, and audio editions of the four novels. Other recent work includes Ragnarok and Roll: Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet, the SCPD series of cop novels in a city filled with superheroes including The Case of the Claw and the upcoming Avenging Amethyst, an upcoming Star Trek project, and short stories in the anthologies V-Wars, Bad-Ass Faeries: It's Elemental, Tales from the House Band Volumes 1 & 2, Liar Liar, Defending the Future: Best-Laid Plans, and Apocalypse 13.

Keith is also a longtime editor, having supervised several major book lines (the Marvel novels of the 1990s, the monthly Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers eBooks from 2000-2008) and edited many novels and anthologies—among the latter, Doctor Who: The Quality of Leadership and the Star Trek anthologies Tales of the Dominion War and Tales from the Captain's Table. He also edited the 2013 Yankees Annual for Lindy's Sports.

He was inexplicably honored by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009, which means he never needs to achieve anything ever again. Keith was also the first victim -- er, subject of the Shore Leave Comedy Roast for charity in 2009, which means he never has to be on the hot seat for that nonsense ever again, either...

In addition to his authorial and editorial hats, Keith is also a musical guest of Shore Leave as the percussionist for the Boogie Knights. He joined the band in 2006, after backing up acts such as the Don't Quit Your Day Job Players, the Randy Bandits, David Honigsberg, and Steve Rosenhaus, and appears on the Knights' fifth and sixth CDs Many a Sleepless Knight and Wasted Days and Wasted Knights.

Besides all that, Keith is also a major podcaster. He contributes regularly to The Chronic Rift pop-culture podcast, does voices for the audio-drama podcasts Gypsy Cove, The Dome, and the Parsec Award-winning HG World (for which he does the voice of Todd Rage), and babbles monthly about his life and career on Dead Kitchen Radio: The Keith R.A. DeCandido Podcast.

Keith is a black belt in Kenshikai karate and a devoted fan of the New York Yankees. Find out less at Keith's hopelessly out-of-date web site at DeCandido.net which is a gateway to his blog at kradical.livejournal.com, his Facebook page, his Twitter feed (KRADeC) and much more.

Additional books by Keith R.A. DeCandido