LOST IN SPACE
Wil Wheaton, the actor-turned-blogger best known for his role in Stand By Me and as 
Wesley Crusher in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation, has signed a three-book deal with O’Reilly & Associates.
Says Wheaton, “This is a very exciting relationship for me, for several reasons. First, I am a huge geek, and without O’Reilly, I wouldn’t know HTML from LMNOP. I never would have been able to get Linux running, and Perl would be one of the not-quite-as-good-as-Mrs.-Garrett replacements on Diff’rent Strokes.”
While Wheaton has continued to act, most recently in Damion Dietz’s Neverland (2003), doing voiceover work for Brother Bear, The Simpsons, and for a forthcoming Pixar production, he has devoted most of his time to writing.
O’Reilly & Associates plans to release Wheaton’s Dancing Barefoot, comprised of five short-but-true stories about life in the so-called Space Age. Originally released by Monolith Press, Dancing Barefoot “sold 3,000 copies in less than five months,” reports Wheaton. “I can’t wait to see how it does when it’s got the power and budget of a major publisher behind it.”
O’Reilly also plans to release Wheaton’s Just A Geek, an autobiographical book about coming to terms with what it means to be famous, or, ironically, famous for being previously famous.
