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

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!

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!

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!

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!

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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Jackal’s Trick audiobook out — and The Old Republic Vol. 2 from Marvel!

Tuesday this week marked ten years that I’ve been writing full-time — and 100+ comics and nine novels (depending on how you count them) later, I’m still at it. This week adds a couple of releases to the shelf — or, rather, one book and one audiobook. First off, Wednesday sees the release from Marvel of Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Old Republic Vol. 2, comprising issues #19-37 of …

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Star Trek: Prey Book 1 – Hell’s Heart audiobook now available!

The audiobook for the critically acclaimed first book in my Star Trek: Prey trilogy is now available from iTunes and Audible! Robert Petkoff narrates the whole trilogy, and it’s a lot of fun to listen to. I worked with the producers on a lot of the pronunciations, as did my Klingon-language advisor for the series. You can hear a clip from it below, in which Captain Picard hears a voice from …

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Dispatches from Ice Planet Wisconsin!

Winter is in full swing here in the wilds of Wisconsin, along with a pretty hairy ice storm that’s hours old as I write this. Fortunately I’m inside, writing away — and speaking of hairy, I have new reading material in the new Planet of the Apes: Tales from the Forbidden Zone anthology from Titan Books! Edited by Rich Handley and Jim Beard, the book draws upon the original five …

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Of royalty lost: Remembering Carrie Fisher

We all learned a few hours ago that Carrie Fisher passed away today, following a heart attack on Friday. Photo by Riccardo Ghilardi My initial response — on social media and off — was that I had no words. In fact, I probably have too many. I will try to organize a few now. It probably won’t help, but it’s better to do something than nothing. This has been a …

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Star Trek Prey concludes! Enter… The Hall of Heroes!

The quest is complete! The third book of my monthly trilogy for fall, Star Trek: Prey – The Hall of Heroes, is now on sale everywhere in paperback and e-book form. I’ve written a lot about the trilogy — including, most recently, on the official Star Trek blog, where I discussed the “Emperor without Victories: The Case of Kahless the Clone. I’ve also done quite a lot of podcasts in …

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