“Be mindful of the Living Force, my young padawan.” — Qui-Gon Jinn, The Phantom Menace I’m delighted to announce my return to the Star Wars novel shelf with Star Wars: The Living Force, releasing April 9, 2024 in hardcover, audiobook, and ebook! The announcement today at IO9 can be found here, with more quotes by me. Releasing in time for the 25th anniversary of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, the …
My schedule didn’t allow me to be at San Diego this week, but I am informed that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The High Country received the 2023 Scribe Award for Best Tie-In Novel — Speculative Fiction from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. I was clearly NOT expecting this, as it’s my third in a row in this category, after the previous Trek novels Die Standing and …
Well, I’m floored. I just heard from fellow nominee (and 2022’s recipient of the Faust Grandmaster Award) David Mack that my Star Trek: Picard – Rogue Elements received the Scribe Award for Best Tie-In Novel – Speculative from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers this afternoon at Comic-Con International San Diego. It’s my third in the category following Star Wars: Kenobi in 2014 and last year’s Star Trek: Discovery …
Captain Christopher Pike on a horse — need I say more? Okay, probably — but I’m limited to what I can say now. And that’s what we just announced at Star Trek: Mission Chicago, that my newest novel is also the first novel in the Strange New Worlds line for Star Trek, supporting the Paramount+ series which begins streaming soon. The High Country is a doozy of an adventure, releasing …
I’m honored to be able to share that STAR TREK: DISCOVERY – DIE STANDING has received the 2021 Scribe Award for Best Original Novel – Speculative from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. It’s my second one in this category — following in 2014 — and I’m especially thankful because Die Standing came out during the pandemic, and I’ve been looking forward to the chance to introduce more people …
I don’t know if the solicitation copy release and cover appearing on TrekCentral today was planned or not — but I guess the cat’s out of the bag. My latest novel is a hardcover, is the longest novel I’ve ever written — and is loads of fun! Star Trek: Picard – Rogue Elements releases in August, and follows Santiago Cabrera‘s freighter captain Cristóbal Rios on an odyssey set years before …
The final story for my Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith series has been harder to find in recent years, as the Spiral miniseries — read my notes about the story here — has been out of print since the end of 2014. But it’s returning in May from Marvel as part of Star Wars: Legends Epic Collection — The Old Republic Vol. 4! Here’s the solicitation copy: The …
Luck wasn’t Zayne Carrick’s thing — but your lucky numbers are coming up on 7/7/21! The entire Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic comics arc will appear in a single edition, Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic Omnibus will be out that day, according to Marvel solicitations released this morning and posted by JediNews. There are two editions, one with a Brian Ching cover (from KOTOR #0) and one …
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 …