John J. Ordover is an American stand-up comic, founder and chief executive officer of JJO Marketing, and a digital art gallery owner. He 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 being editor-in-chief of Phobos Books. In 2018 he released the book Lie There and Lose Weight: How I Lost 100 Pounds by Doing Next to Nothing from Wilder Publications.
Ordover is the co-creator of such spin-off series as ' (with writer Peter David), ' and ' (both with Keith R.A. DeCandido), ' (with Michael Jan Friedman), and ' (with Diane Carey).
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.
Ordover and David Mack wrote the ' episodes "Starship Down". Both have story credits on "", which was written as a teleplay by Ronald D. Moore.
Ordover edited BACONTHOLOGY: The Sweet and Savory Science Fiction Anthology featuring "baconized" stories by bestselling award-winning authors donating work supporting Ordover's charity work.
Ordover produces bacon themed charity events benefiting autistic children at his gallery.
Bacon-Palooza was held October 15âÂÂ17, 2010.
Bacon-Palooza II was held March 1âÂÂ3, 2013. BACONTHOLOGY: The Sweet and Savory Science Fiction Anthology was the official event program book.
Ordover is also an active nudist, the founder of Clothing Optional Dinners, a dining club in New York City for nudists. On July 11, 2007, Ordover launched a nude dinner cruise from Sheepshead Bay, New York.
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.