Donald F Glut has been active in both the entertainment and publishing industries since 1966 and has had a long and varied career He has been a professional musician actor film director executive producer photographer magazine editor proofreader and copywriter but is mostly known for his long career as a freelance writer He has written and directed featurelength motion pictures documentaries and music videos authored approximately 80 fiction and nonfiction published books TV scripts live action and animation shows network and syndicated comicbook scripts short stories magazine articles even music and theatre He has been involved with numerous popular franchises such as Star Wars The Monkees Tarzan SpiderMan Transformers GI Joe Vampirella Masters of the Universe The Flintstones Jonny Quest and many others and created original comicbook characters for Gold Key Marvel and DC He is arguably best known for his novelization of the second Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back