JULY 14, 2023 – The Scribe Awards, from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, acknowledge and celebrate excellence in licensed tie-in works based on TV shows, movies, and games (video games, computer games, rpgs). This year the seventeenth annual Scribes include nominations for three Star Trek novels.

Jonathan Mayberry, president of IAMTW, announced the nominations on his Goodreads blog. Among the nominations are Harm’s Way by David Mack (Original Series) and High Country by John Jackson Miller (Strange New Worlds). Both titles are vying for the award in the Best Original Novel – Speculative category. The third nomination appears in the Best Young Adult / Middle Grade category, A Dangerous Trade by Cassandra Rose Clarke (Prodigy).

The full list of nominations follows, and a couple of other Trek novelists are also appearing, under different franchises. James Swallow has written in the Tom Clancy universe, and Peter David is sharing in a graphic novel entry.

Speculative

League of Legends Ruination by Anthony Reynolds

Marvel Crisis Protocol Shadow Avengers by Carrie Harris

Star Trek Original Series Harm’s Way by David Mack

Star Trek Strange New Worlds High Country by John Jackson Miller

World of Warcraft Sylvanas by Christie Golden

General/Adapted

Black Cat: Discord by Cath Lauria

Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii by James Moran

Murder She Wrote: Death on the Emerald Isle by Terrie Moran

The Legend of the Five Rings: The Flower Path by Josh Reynolds

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Firewall by James Swallow

Graphic Novel

Drawing of Cards by Paul Cornell

Kolchak the Night Stalker by David Avallone, Rodney Barnes, Jonathan Maberry, Gabriel Hardman, Peter David, James Aquilone, R. C. Matheson, Nancy A. Collins, Kim Newman, James Chambers, Tim Waggoner, & Steve Niles

Spectrum, the Worlds of Gerry Anderson by Steve Tanner

The Mighty Nein Origins--Yasha Nydoorin by Cecil Castellucci

Young Adult/Middle Grade

Squirrel Girl Universe by Tristan Palmgren

Star Trek Prodigy: A Dangerous Trade by Cassandra Rose Clarke

Star Wars: The High Republic - Quest for the Hidden City by George Mann

The Mystery of Lucy Wilson: Memories of the Future by George Ivanoff

Tower of Nerek by David Guymer

Audio

Doctor Who - Peake Season by LM Myles

Previously Next Time Parts 1 and 2 by James Moran

Doctor Who - The War Doctor Begins - He Who Fights Monsters by R. Valentine

Doctor Who Albie's Angels by Roy Gill

Tom Clancy's Firewall by Paul Cornell

The winners will be announced at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, July 21.