Scott Pearson Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

I've worked on books across a wide nonfiction spectrum, from Beer: The Ultimate World Tour to The Road to Big Week: The Struggle for Daylight Air Supremacy over Western Europe, but since 2014 I've focused on genre fiction, from Star Trek to epic fantasy to military sci-fi. I've worked with self-publishing indie writers as well as New York Times bestselling authors.With decades of experience as a writer and an editor, my foremost goal is to maintain the author's voice while guiding them to their best manuscript through judicious editing.

While Baen specializes in military-themed science fiction, they also publish fantasy, urban fantasy, and horror, and I have worked for them across all those genres, primarily in novels but also the occasional anthology.

As a writer:"Full Circle" in Strange New Worlds VII, 2004"Terra Tonight" in Strange New Worlds 9, 2006"Among the Clouds" in The Sky's the Limit, 2007"Honor in the Night" in Myriad Universes: Shattered Light, 2010The More Things Change, 2014As an editor:Since 2014 I have copyedited dozens of Star Trek novels across all the series published by Simon & Schuster.

Specializing in books about the history of the western Lake Superior region. Edited such books as Will to Murder: The True Story Behind the Crimes & Trials Surrounding the Glensheen Killings, featured on Dominick Dunne’s Power, Privilege, and Justice series on CourtTV. Also edited Crossing the Canal: An Illustrated History of Duluth's Aerial Bridge and Lost Duluth: Landmarks, Industries, Buildings, Homes, and the Neighborhoods in Which They Stood, both finalists for a Minnesota Book Award.

First professional sale, the short story "The Mailbox,"​ won a Tamarack Award from Minnesota Monthly magazine in 1987 and was published in Minnesota Monthly in October of that year. Since that publication, has had poetry, humor, nonfiction, short stories, and two novellas published, including the Star Trek novella Honor in the Night in Myriad Universes 3 (2010), the mystery "Clothes Make the Man"​ in the anthology The Writes of Spring (2012), and the Lovecraftian short story "The Squid that Came to Phil's Basement"​ in the Spring 2014 issue of Space and Time Magazine. Contributed urban fantasy stories to each of three anthologies in the ReDeus series (2012-2013). Had a Star Trek eBook published by Simon & Schuster in 2014. Cowrote the screenplays for the IMAX space documentaries Space Next and Touch the Stars. Self-published the novella The Big Dark along with William Leisner's novelette Meet John Doe. He got busy writing short stories again during the pandemic, contributing to various anthologies: "The Ghosts of Glenmirror" in Castle of Horror 4, "In the Time of the Martians" in Turning the Tied [that's not a typo!], "The Day It Came From Beyond Outer Space" in Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2021, and "The Murder Couple" in Castle of Horror 5.

Started as a copyeditor; promoted to associate editor at Zenith Press, a then-new military history imprint. At Zenith Press, worked on such books as Tales from a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, which received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly. As Acquisitions Editor, developed the e-book That's What They Want You to Think: Conspiracies, Real, Possible, and Paranoid. Also acquired a collection of first-person stories about World War II Mustang pilots, The Fight in the Clouds.

Worked as full time bookseller with assignments of increasing responsibility, from ordering and stocking the magazine section to running the then-new special order system, to ordering and stocking all genre fiction along with organizing local genre author signing events.