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.