When Darth Vader thinks you’ve failed him, you can run — or you can be Rae Sloane! Random House/Del Rey has announced the lineup of stories for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – From a Certain Point of View anthology, and I can say that I’ve written my first Rae-centric story to date. She was a supporting player in A New Dawn, “Orientation,” and “Bottleneck”; here, she’s the star. …
I’m thrilled to report that the Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – From a Certain Point of View anthology is a go from Del Rey —and I’m on board with a story that’s as cool as it is secret! Check out this post on StarWars.com for more information — and there’ll be a lot more out shortly. I can say for sure that my entry will be both surprising and a …
Emperor. Exile. Secret agent. And… emperor again? One of the reasons I took the assignment that became my 2019 release, Star Trek: Discovery – The Enterprise War was because of my liking for the Mirror Universe sequence of the TV show’s first season — and my admiration for the bold move in bringing Emperor Georgiou into the Prime Universe. What, if anything, I wondered, would stop her from rebuilding her …
A busy winter here — finished my latest Star Trek novel, and we should be able to announce more about that soon. In the meantime, a couple of appearances are slated before the spring thaw: I’ll be appearing at Richmond GalaxyCon Feb. 28-March 1 on behalf of Bard’s Tower. And my return trip again to MidSouthCon (March 20-22) is made more special because literary guest of honor will be my …
Delighted to announce that Star Trek: Discovery – The Enterprise War is now on sale from Gallery Books in trade paperback, audiobook, and ebook! The Enterprise War is a rip-roaring adventure, written in consultation with the folks at CBS behind the TV show, telling where Captain Pike, Spock, and the ship was and what it was doing during the Klingon War — the entire war! Paperback Amazon Barnes and Noble Books-a-Million Indiebound iTunes eBook …
Updated (6/1/19): The cover has now been revealed — and it’s a great one, inserting the Enterprise in a motif used for several of the Discover posters. Updated (6/10/19): And we now have the back cover, too! The second season of Star Trek: Discovery aired this spring, featuring the return of U.S.S. Enterprise under Christopher Pike — and the story of where he and Spock and Number One and all …
There are those who believe… So began the opening to Battlestar Galactica, which debuted 40 years ago this month on ABC. I was one of the kids in the audience that night — and every week that followed that season. So I was delighted when Dynamite Comics tapped me to write a comics miniseries for this fall, focusing on the original cast. What’s even cooler is that the first issue is …
With Meredith and the “Hot Wheels” car I haven’t blogged much at all this year, because I’ve been busy writing — five different projects at various stages, none of which can be announced — and I’ve also been traveling, including to another fun Joliet Star Wars Day and a very successful All-Star Comic Con in Tysons Corners, Virginia. But it’s the most recent trip that’s worth a photo journal! As …
Jedi are trained diplomats, but farmboys? Not so much! But Luke has to learn in a hurry as he’s forced to pinch-hit for Leia on a diplomatic mission of major importance to the protocol-obsessed Sarkans — and even Threepio might not be enough to save him from starting an intergalactic incident! Will Leia have to bail him out? I share the story in Star Wars Adventures Annual 2018, releasing April …
Star Wars: Canto Bight is now on sale, in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook! Four interconnected novellas describe the casino world from Star Wars: The Last Jedi, where the wealthy and powerful go to escape (and ignore) the galaxy’s troubles. All stories set the same night! I’m joined by Saladin Ahmed, Rae Carson, and Seanan McGuire (writing as Mira Grant). The audiobook’s great, with my story, “The Ride,” read by Jonathan …