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The wait is over! Star Trek: Discovery – The Enterprise War now available!

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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 …

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Star Trek: Discovery – The Enterprise War launches July 30! UPDATED with cover!

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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 …

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New Battlestar Galactica comic launches in October!

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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 …

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At the Ant-Man and the Wasp premiere!

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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 …

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I return to Star Wars comics in IDW’s STAR WARS ADVENTURES ANNUAL 2018!

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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 …

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Deal the cards — STAR WARS: CANTO BIGHT hits the shelves!

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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 …

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Fall update: Two new Star Wars books, new Star Wars comics, Halo, and more!

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There’s been a whole bunch of news, and things have only slowed down long enough now for me to be able to post about them: This week sees the release of Star Wars: From A Certain Point of View, in which I have a story about the Tusken Raiders we see in Star Wars: A New Hope. This charity edition supports First Book, a literacy organization, and includes stories from …

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Announcing my LAST JEDI tie-in, CANTO BIGHT — plus some film news!

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I’m part of The Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi! As announced in Entertainment Weekly‘s article and at Comic-Con International: San Diego, I’m one of four authors giving viewers a look at Canto Bight, the playground for the rich seen in this December’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Star Wars: Canto Bight releases as a hardcover, audiobook, and ebook on December 5, a week before the film opens. I’m …

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My next Halo work appears in HALO: RISE OF ATRIOX!

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It’s was an insanely busy April for me, event-wise, with Galaxy Comics’ Anniversary Star Trek Day in Memphis followed by Star Wars: Celebration in Orlando and Planet Comicon in Kansas City — and May starts out busy, too, with two events in the Chicago area May 6… 12 p.m.: Algonquin Public Library 3 p.m.: Arlington Heights Public Library …and then another at the Portage County Public Library in downtown Stevens Point, …

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I return to Tatooine in October in FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW — and to Star Wars Celebration next week!

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Quite a lot of news to tell! First of all — teased yesterday as #OperationBlueMilk, Del Rey and StarWars.com have announced my next Star Wars story in the Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View anthology. You can find the official announcement here, and also below: When Star Wars: A New Hope was first released in 1977, part of its appeal was that the world it presented felt alive. …

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