How did you become the author of ten 'Star Trek' novels?

How did you become the author of ten 'Star Trek' novels?

William Shatner (Author) gives expert video advice on: How did you become the author of ten 'Star Trek' novels?; What inspired you to write 'Star Trek Academy - Collision Course'?; How difficult was it to get approval to write 'Star Trek Academy - Collision Course'? and more...

This forty page treatment they turned down and I turned it into a book, called it "The Return". It became a best seller. And from then on it was like "let's write another book", then I'd do the audio part of the book and it got to be kind of a thing we'd do every year or so, a gathering.