Jim Beard
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Jim Beard is a writer, editor, and podcaster specializing in adventure fiction and pop culture.
He is the founder of small press publisher Becky Books, whose Star Trek-related books include the anthologies Women Take the Conn and Galloping Around the Cosmos, the latter of which he also edited.
His other Star Trek-related work includes essays contributed to the anthologies New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics and Outside In Makes It So.
He is also the co-founder of Flinch Books, a small press publisher specializing in pulp adventure fiction.