David Gerrold is an award-winning author whose best-selling novels have been made into movies (“The Martian Child”) and who has written for many TV shows, including Star Trek (he wrote the famous “The Trouble With Tribbles” episode), Babylon 5, Twilight Zone, Land of the Lost, and Sliders.

And he can tell us what it’s like to write for TV shows and why the Writers’ Guild is currently on strike.

EDIT: This was recorded and is now available in our “expert advice” section.

Ten-time Hugo and Nebula award nominee DAVID GERROLD is also a recipient of the Skylark Award for Excellence in Imaginative Fiction, the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Horror, and the Forrest J. Ackerman lifetime achievement award. He was the Guest of Honor at the 2015 World Science Fiction Convention. Gerrold’s prolific output includes teleplays, film scripts, stage plays, comic books, more than 50 novels and anthologies, and hundreds of articles, columns, and short stories. He has worked on a dozen different TV series, including Star Trek, Land of the Lost, Twilight Zone, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Babylon 5, and Sliders. He is the author of Star Trek’s most popular episode “The Trouble With Tribbles.” His most famous novel is The Man Who Folded Himself. His semi-autobiographical tale of his son’s adoption, The Martian Child, won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, and was the basis for the 2007 movie starring John Cusack and Amanda Peet. His web page is www.gerrold.com