Kevin Dilmore

For almost 15 years, Kevin worked as a newspaper reporter and editor on the "cops and courts" beat at a twice-weekly community newspaper in Paola, Kansas, a small town just outside Kansas City. His photographs, news stories and features have won numerous honors from state and national journalism organizations, and he is a two-time winner of the Kansas Press Association’s highest award for in-depth reporting. So why did he abandon the cushy newspaper gig last month for Star Trek? He's a fanboy at heart. For six years, Kevin has been a contributing writer for Star Trek Communicator, the bimonthly publication of the Official Star Trek Fan Club. That role has allowed him to cross the paths of Star Trek professionals from all aspects of the franchise, including performers, producers, script writers, designers, illustrators, Christmas ornament sculptors, motion-simulation ride operators, food servers at Quark's Bar … and oh yeah, Star Trek fiction writers.

From the latter category, Kevin met Dayton Ward, who has graciously allowed him to cut his eye teeth in the fiction world by pairing up on
Interphase and Foundations, multi-book tales of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers written for the audience of Star Trek "e-books." The e-book release of Interphase Book 2 was a 2002 top 10 bestseller for Palm Computing’s e-book sales web site. Their latest e-book for the S.C.E. line, Home Fires, was released this spring. Kevin plans to continue his writing partnership with Dayton within the world of Star Trek and beyond it, maybe even penning that novel about the small-town news biz that they dust of now and again.

A graduate of the University of Kansas, Kevin counts himself as very thankful for the person who, at age 9, tipped him off to the fact that Star Trek was a live-action television show before it was a Saturday-morning cartoon. This is his last convention as a single man, as he plans to marry the Star Trek novice Michelle Bonds in June.

Kevin will be appearing on our writing panels at Starfest 2003.