John J. Ordover Is a New York Area stand-up comic, and is the American founder and chief executive officer of JJO Marketing, a digital art gallery owner, and is best known for being an editor at Pocket Books from 1992 to 2003 overseeing the Star Trek franchise licensed novels, and from 2003 to 2005 Editor-In-Chief of Phobos Books. In 2018 he released Lie There and Lose Weight: How I Lost 100 Pounds by Doing Next to Nothing, a weight loss memoir, from Wilder Publications, ISBN9781-5154-1933-4. Since losing weight Ordover has added acting to his creative list, including appearances on 2018–2019 season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Madam Secretary, Law & Order: SVU, New Amsterdam, Manifest and Instinct
According to Peter David, the basic concept for New Frontier was Ordover's, as was the notion of using several already existing characters, with David having fleshed out the concept and created the original characters.[1]
Bacon-Palooza II was held March 1–3, 2013.[9][10][11][12]BACONTHOLOGY: The Sweet and Savory Science Fiction Anthology was the official event program book.[4]
Ordover is also an active nudist, the founder of Clothing Optional Dinners, a dining club in New York City for nudists.[13] On July 11, 2007, Ordover launched a nude dinner cruise from Sheepshead Bay, New York.[14]
Ordover created a web site in September 2007 as a hoax to bring attention to the discrepancy between age of consent laws and marriage law.[15]
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