Aaron S. Rosenberg Explained

Aaron S. Rosenberg
Birth Date:13 October 1969
Occupation:Author

Aaron S. Rosenberg (born October 13, 1969) is an American novelist, short story writer, children's books author, and game designer.

Biography

Rosenberg has written novels for franchises including Star Trek, StarCraft, Warcraft, Exalted, Stargate Atlantis, Shadowrun, Mutants & Masterminds, and Warhammer. He also writes educational books, young adult novels, children's books, and tabletop role-playing games. He won an Origins Award in 2003 for Game Mastering Secrets (2002),[1] and his young adult novelization Bandslam: The Novel won the Scribe Award for best Young Adult novel in 2010. Other young adult and children works of his are his literary adaptions of iCarly and the 2010 animated film Alpha and Omega. Rosenberg wrote the first-ever tie-in novel for the television series Eureka, entitled Substitution Method, under the house name Cris Ramsay. His second Eureka novel, Roads Less Traveled, was released in early 2011. He is also the author of the Dread Remora space-opera series and the co-author of the O.C.L.T. occult thriller series, both from Crossroad Press, the Areyat Isles fantasy pirate series from Eldros Legacy, the Yeti urban fantasy series from Paradoxa Press, and the Relicant Chronicles epic fantasy series from Falstaff Books.

Rosenberg is also part of Crazy 8 Press, a cooperative publishing venture he started in 2011 with fellow authors Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, Robert Greenberger, Glenn Hauman, and Howard Weinstein. His science fiction novel No Small Bills was released by Crazy 8 in September 2011. The sequel, Too Small for Tall, was released in September 2012 and the next two books in the series, Three Small Coinkydinks and Not for Small Minds, were released in 2014 and 2018, respectively.

Rosenberg lives in New York City with his family.

Publications

Novels

Young adult novels

Children's books

Short stories

Role-playing games

Educational books

Articles

Awards and honors

Awards
YearAwardCategoryRecipients and nomineesResult
2015Sidewise Awards[2] Short FormLet No Man Put AsunderNominated
2013Origins Awards[3] Best Game-related PublicationEighth Day Genesis: A Worldbuilding Codex for Writers and CreatorsNominated
2011Origins Awards[4] Best Roleplaying SupplementSunward: The Inner SystemNominated
2010Scribe Awards[5] Young Adult Novel - Best AdaptionBandslam

The Novel

WON
2009Scribe Awards[6] Game-related Novel - Best AdaptionWorld of WarCraft: Beyond the Dark PortalNominated
2007ENnies[7] Best AdventureLure of the Liche LordGold ENnie
2006Origins Awards[8] Roleplaying Game of the YearDeryni Roleplaying GameNominated
2002Origins Awards[9] Best Game Aid or AccessoryGamemastering SecretsWON

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Appelcline, Shannon . Designers & Dragons . Mongoose Publishing . 2011 . 978-1-907702-58-7 . 320.
  2. Web site: 17 August 2015 . 2014 Sidewise Awards . The Sidewise Awards . 2015-08-17.
  3. Web site: 2013 Origins Awards . The Origins Awards . 2013-04-03.
  4. Web site: 2011 Origins Awards . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110412010101/https://originsnews.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/the%2Dacademy%2Dof%2Dadventure%2Dgaming%2Darts%2Dand%2Ddesign%2Dannounces%2D37th%2Dannual%2Dorigins%2Dawards%2Dnominees/ . The Origins Awards . 2011-04-11 . 12 April 2011.
  5. Web site: Fifth Annual Scribe Awards . dead . The International Association of Media Tie-in Writers . 2010-03-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100412201209/http://www.iamtw.org/awards.html . 12 April 2010.
  6. Web site: Fifth Annual Scribe Awards . dead . The International Association of Media Tie-in Writers . 2010-03-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100413204308/http://www.iamtw.org/awards-winners.html . 2010-04-13.
  7. Web site: 2007 ENnies . The GenCon EN World RPG Awards . 2016-03-09 . 2016-03-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160310075436/http://www.ennie-awards.com/blog/about-us/2007-noms-and-winners . dead .
  8. Web site: 2006 Origins Awards . The Origins Awards . 2006-03-17.
  9. Web site: 2002 Origins Awards . The Origins Awards . 2003-06-17.