Pocket Books

After the launch of the film in 1955, the novel appeared in paperback, outselling the hardcover edition many times over.

This edition was published by Pocket Books.

Pocket Books were still receiving overtures from Scott Meredith on Hunter's behalf as he tried to sell them the Hunt Collins story Cut Me In.

Herbert Alexander, editor-in-chief, pondered the pseudonym used on Cut Me In and had his hunch confirmed by asking Meredith, Is this our friend Hunter? Having had his suspicions confirmed, and pleased to find out that the best-selling author of Blackboard Jungle also knew how to construct a mystery story as well, he was keen to find out the author's availability and willingness to write an ongoing series for Pocket Books.

They still didn't publish Cut Me In, though.

Earl Stanley Gardner was the writer of the long-running Perry Mason series.

From the 1940s, reprints of the stories began to appear in the Pocket Books range.

By 1954 and 40 or so books into the series, someone clearly thought that Gardner's time would soon be up, and it was with a view to filling this imagined gap in the firm's future output that set Herbert Alexander on the hunt for a new mystery writer.

The novelization of Star Trek IV was written by Vonda N. McIntyre, based on the screenplay by Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes and Harve Bennett and Nicholas Meyer, and a story by Leonard Nimoy and Harve Bennett.

It was published by Pocket Books New York in 1986.

Our guest today, returning from many episodes, most recently Tomb of Stone, which was a novelization handed to him by the great wheel of novelization randomization.

Sorry, Bs- Bs- stone?

There were also some marketing tie-ins, as they do.

So, yeah, there was a novelization, Vonda McIntyre, that actually did pretty well, published by Pocket Books and spending a number of weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

I think it actually peaked at number three, if I believe, if I have my information correct.

And then, of course, MCA released the film's soundtrack, which...