Jeff Rovin

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Jeff Rovin
Pen nameJim Grand, Harry Bergen, Jeffrey and Lila Dubinsky
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Jeff Rovin is an American magazine editor, freelance writer, columnist, and author, who has appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.

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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 Pokémon .

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.

In October 2016, during the last days of the Donald Trump campaign, Rovin appeared on Hannity , in Breitbart News and the front cover of National Enquirer , claiming to have been a "fixer" for Bill and Hillary Clinton, hiding family scandals. [5] [6] [7] [8] His allegations included that Hillary Clinton was "bisexual" and a "secret sex freak" with an "open marriage" and had a romantic relationship with Vince Foster. [9] [10] [11]

Bibliography

Fiction

Stand-alone novels

  • The Hindenburg Disaster (1975)
  • The Transgalactic Guide To Solar System M-17 (1981)
  • The Madjan (1984)
  • Dagger (1988)
  • Starik (1989) – with Sander Diamond
  • The Red Arrow (1990) – with Sander Diamond
  • Cat Angels (1995)
  • Vespers (1999) – based on his screenplay of the same name.
  • Stealth War (2000)
  • Fatalis (2000) – based on his screenplay of the same name.
  • Dead Rising (2005)
  • Tempest Down (2007)
  • Rogue Angel (2007)
  • The Devil's Rangers (2007) – written under the pen name Jim Grand
  • Conversations with the Devil (2013)
  • Coldwater (2015)
  • Zero-G (2016) – with William Shatner

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)
  1. For Honor (2018)
  2. Sting of the Wasp (2019)
  3. God of War (2020)
  4. The Black Order (2021)
  5. Call of Duty (2022)

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

  • In Search of Trivia (1984)
  • 1,001 Great One-Liners (1989)
  • 500 Hilarious Jokes for Kids (1990)
  • The First Good News/Bad News Joke Book (1993)
  • 500Great Doctor Jokes
  • 500 Great Lawyer Jokes
  • 500 More Hilarious Jokes for Kids
  • 1,001 Great Jokes
  • 1,001 More Great Jokes
  • 1,001 Great Pet Jokes
  • 1,001 Great Sports Jokes
  • Dinomite Dinousaur Jokes
  • Don't Even Think About Telling this Joke at Work (writing as Harry Bergen)
  • Don't Even Think About Telling this Joke to a Lawyer (writing as Harry Bergen)
  • Goldie's Lox and the Three Bagels (writing as Jeffrey and Lila Dubinsky)
  • Mother Gooseberg's Book of Jewish Nursery Rhymes (writing as Jeffrey and Lila Dubinsky)
  • The Second Good News/Bad News Joke Book
  • Winning at Trivial Pursuit
  • Count Dracula's Vampire Quiz Book
  • The Supernatural Movie Quizbook
  • The Superhero Movie and TV Quiz Book
  • The UFO Movie Quizbook
  • The Unauthorized Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Quiz Book

Video game books

  • The Complete Guide to Conquering Video Games: How to Win Every Game in the Galaxy (1982)
  • How to Win at Nintendo (1988)
  • How to Win at Nintendo Games 2 (1989)
  • How to Win at Nintendo Games 3 (1990)
  • How to Win at Nintendo Sports Games (1990)
  • How to Win at Super Mario Bros. Games (1990)
  • How to Win at Sega & Genesis Games (1991)
  • How to Win at Game Boy Games (1991)
  • How to Win at Super Nintendo Entertainment System Games (1992)
  • The Best of How to Win at Nintendo Games (1993)
  • Gamemaster: Conquering Super Nintendo Games (1994)
  • Gamemaster: Conquering Sega Genesis Games (1994)
  • Gamemaster: The Complete Video Game Guide 1995 (1994)
  • How to Win at Nintendo Games #4

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  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
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