Jeff Rovin

Jeffrey Daniel Rovin
Pen name Jim Grand, Harry Bergen, Jeffrey and Lila Dubinsky
Occupation Novelist, columnist, magazine editor, freelance writer, consultant
Genre Horror, fantasy, science fiction, supernatural
Children 2 (Michael & Sam)

Jeff Rovin is an American magazine editor, freelance writer, columnist, and author, who has appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Biography

Jeff Rovin has been editor-in-chief of Weekly World News, an assistant editor and writer for DC Comics,[1] and an editor for Warren Publishing and Seaboard Periodicals, as well as a science and media columnist in such magazines as Analog, Omni, and Famous Monsters of Filmland.

His How to Play video game books of the 1980s and 1990s detailed strategies for dozens of games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genesis, and Game Boy. This series was preceded by his The Complete Guide to Conquering Video Games in 1982, and followed by his Gamemaster series that lasted until the late 1990s, which began containing a violence rating for the games included in these books. Rovin's publisher at the time, St. Martin's, later decided to continue the "How To Win At", series, but this time written by Hank Schlesinger, to cover Nintendo 64, PlayStation games, and Pokemon.

Rovin has written encyclopedias about popular culture, including The Encyclopedia of Superheroes (Facts On File, 1985), The Encyclopedia of Super Villains (Facts On File, 1987) The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cartoon Animals (Prentice Hall, 1991), and The Encyclopedia of Monsters (Checkmark Books, 1990). He has worked on biographical and film books on such performers as Kelsey Grammer, Lana Turner, Adam West, Ellen DeGeneres, Jackie Chan, Charlton Heston, Elvis Presley, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Pryor, Luke Perry, Jason Priestley, and Julio Iglesias, and on the animated series The Simpsons. Additionally, he has written quiz and joke books.

Rovin's novels are in the fields of thriller, horror, adventure, and mystery, in addition to the military field with books in the Force Five and Tom Clancy's Op-Center series.[2] His Tom Clancy's Op-Center: War of Eagles became a New York Times Best Seller.[3]

His later Unit Omega books were written under the name pen name Jim Grand.[4] He then began writing further military suspense novels under his own name, such as Tempest Down, Dead Rising, and Rogue Angel.

Bibliography

Fiction

Stand-alone novels

Hollywood Detective

  1. Garrison (1975)
  2. The Wolf (1975)

Novelizations and Tie-ins

Force Five

  1. Destination: Algiers (1989)
  2. Destination: Stalingrad (1989)
  3. Destination: Norway (1989)

Tom Clancy's Op-Center

Series created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik

  1. Op-Center (1995)
  2. Mirror Image (1995)
  3. Games of State (1996)
  4. Acts of War (1997)
  5. Balance of Power (1998)
  6. State of Siege (1999)
  7. Divide and Conquer (2000)
  8. Line of Control (2001)
  9. Mission of Honor (2002)
  10. Sea of Fire (2003)
  11. Call to Treason (2004)
  12. War of Eagles (2005)

Unit Omega

written under the pen name Jim Grand

  1. Unit Omega (2003)
  2. Operation Medusa (2004)

The EarthEnd Saga

Co-written with actress Gillian Anderson

  1. A Vision of Fire (2014)
  2. A Dream of Ice (2015)
  3. The Sound of Seas (2016)

Nonfiction

Biographies

Humor and trivia

Video game books

References

  1. ↑ http://www.almexperts.com/UploadedFiles/P114/D814/750843_RovinLA08R_F678A4B9-8566-4063-8C4B-47ADCFC2FFF7.pdf
  2. ↑ Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, Volume 149, page 363
  3. ↑ "This Week: #10; Weeks on List: 2; Tom Clancy's Op-Center: War of Eagles, created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. Written by Jeff Rovin. (Berkley, $7.99.)". The New York Times Best Seller list for Paperbacks, Fiction. July 3, 2005. Archived from the original on January 12, 2012.
  4. ↑ http://www.almexperts.com/UploadedFiles/P114/D814/750843_RovinLA08R_F678A4B9-8566-4063-8C4B-47ADCFC2FFF7.pdf List of Jeff Rovin's works up to 2008 in PDF format

External links

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